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Garden product sales increased by 18% week on week at the start of the Easter fortnight, once again performing behind growing media and plant sales...

National Garden Gift Vouchers has named Frankie Banting from landscaper Hambrooks as a Gardening Hero for  forging partnerships with local charities...

Pelargonium (including bedding geraniums) sales doubled last week to take them to the No 1 most popular plant of the first Easter week in 2019...

Thomas Broom-Hughes, former head of horticulture at Petersham Nurseries, has been named as the new head of retail at RHS Garden Wisley...

Gardeners are making up for last year with huge sales of young veg plants. Sales so far this year are up by over 50%...

With no repeat of last year’s Beast from the East snowstorms and a later Easter pushing back holiday spend, the online retail industry recorded growth of just +5% Year-on-Year (YoY) in March against a tough comparator last year, according to the latest IMRG Capgemini eRetail Sales Index...

First Easter week growing media sales volumes were the highest since 2015 this year and more than double the sales achieved during the first week of Easter last year...

Garden care brand Neudorff has expanded its UK head office team with the appointment of an office administrator.

With the record warm Easter weather it’s no surprise that Wild Bird Care sales dropped off week on week. Westland Peckish Natural Balance was the highest chart climber in the GTN Bestsellers chart...

If you missed last week's GTN Xtra, below are the most-read stories...

Easter feedback from: Alton's, Aylett Nurseries, Baytree, Bents, Blue Diamond, Bosworths, British Garden Centres, Dobbies, Fron Goch, Green Pastures, Haskins, Hayes Garden World, Hilliers, Hillview, Klondyke, Millbrook, Monkton Elm, Newbank, Notcutts, Perrywood, Planters, Squires, Stewarts, Torwood and Wyevale Garden Centres...

With ranges successfully launched in Blue Diamond, British Garden Centres, Notcutts and many other independent centres, Primeur are seeing massive year-on-year sales growth with their Recycled Rubber Garden Borders and Stepping Stones...

When the Managing Director of Bents decided he wanted to do something a little bit different to continue the celebrations for the Centre’s success at this year’s Garden Centre Association awards, no-one expected him to suggest a rickshaw to help him reach as many colleagues as possible.  But when tackled with such a challenge, Bents’ in house team of joiners never disappoint!

Wyevale Garden Centres has announced changes to its Garden Club loyalty scheme which will see the collection of loyalty points replaced with an instant discount every time members shop. The changes, which have been introduced in time for the Easter bank holiday break, will give customers an instant reward through a 5% discount at the till...

Alan Roper welcomed staff and suppliers to an evening event on Monday 15th April 2019 at Bicester Avenue Garden Centre to celebrate the completion of the refurbishment from a Wyevale Garden Centre that they bought last summer to a Blue Diamond Centre that is ready and raring for Easter 2019...

Having completed the purchase of their second garden centre at Hilgay on the A10 near Downham Market the Baytree family team held their Grand Opening Event this weekend...

What would you expect from a Hillier centre? Authoritative ranges of products and plants, crisp merchandising, and expert staff. That’s exactly the delivery at Botley...

In garden furniture Forest Lodge report good early sales, particularly the small corner weave sets and the metal framed lower couch style furniture from Life “it’s appealing to the younger audience looking for some style on their patio...”