GTN May 2024 - Summer Showroom Directory - In this issue:

• AMES Tools – the success story so far
• One to watch – GTN visits the new Rutland Nursery
• Altico celebrates 3 years
• Getting wise with wool - gardening products made from sheep’s wool
• On your marks – GTN’s guide to this summer’s shows
• SOLEX – outdoor living at its best
• Summer Showroom Directory – GTN’s guide to supplier showrooms open for business this summer
• STV on the road
• Creativity with Floralsilk
• Smart’s showroom visit
• Planteria Vox-Pops from: Gates, Newquay, Cooks, Bosworths, Coblands, Carpenters, Highfields, Pughs, Barton Grange, Cowells, Perrywood, Munros and Fron Goch
• Hoping for sunshine – HTA Column
• What’s driving future gardening? – GIMA Column.

A winter and spring flowering ornamental cherry with unusual pure white star-shaped flowers has won the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Plant of the Year 2024 competition...

An impressive 21 plants have been shortlisted for this year’s RHS Chelsea Plant of the Year 2024 competition. The top three will be announced on Sunday 19 May giving garden centres an extra day to prepare for customers wanting the show’s winner.

The Colegrave Seabrook Foundation, the charity who award scholarships to students studying horticulture, and Sparsholt College are working together to bring a garden to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show entitled Plants, Routes & Branches...

The RHS is honoured and delighted that His Majesty The King will be the next Patron of the Royal Horticultural Society – the UK’s gardening charity dedicated to helping everyone to garden for health, happiness and the environment...

The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) has written to government ministers with its learnings two weeks into the new border arrangements. The key border change being the overnight shift on 30 April 2024 from Place of Destination (POD) checks to Border Control Points (BCPs) and Control Points (CPs)...

Southern Trident has been recognised for its achievements at the North Lincolnshire Business Awards 2024 with the company winning ‘The HETA Green Sustainability Award’ and being runner-up in ‘The Pepperells Innovation Award’ category...

Heirloom seed company, She Grows Veg, is sowing the seeds of success as it gears up for its RHS Chelsea Flower Show debut alongside a TV appearance on BBC Gardeners’ World programme...

The biggest garden and BBQ trade fair in the world is being staged in Cologne from 16 to 18 June 2024. The preparations are running at full speed. We spoke with Stefan Lohrberg, Director of spoga+gafa, a month before the trade fair opens about the current challenges and the importance of spoga+gafa...

Jennifer Pheasey, Director of Public Affairs at the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA), commented: “The HTA welcomed the opportunity to contribute to this important audit of UK government policy and delivery of border changes..."

The UK’s Chief Plant Health Officer Professor Nicola Spence is urging UK beekeepers and the public to be increasingly vigilant to the presence of Asian hornet and report any sightings as we move into the peak summer season...

On Sunday 23rd June, the great and good from the garden retail sector will descend upon Grendon Lakes in Northamptonshire to find out who has the skills to be crowned the 2024 Greenfingers Dragon Boat Race winners. Open to everyone from teams to individuals, this is event will be one to remember!

A former scallop-diver has launched the UK’s first ever peat-free, organic seaweed compost that is sold in 100% compostable or ‘naked’ packaging. His mission is to eradicate the 100 million single-use compost bags that are sold to UK gardeners each year...

As the Glee exhibition gets set to celebrate half a century at the heart of the garden retail sector, the organising team is looking for your input. In the past 50 years, Glee has seen thousands of exhibitors pass through its doors, with hundreds of thousands of new products launched since the show’s humble beginnings in 1974. To celebrate the newness and passion that have shaped Glee and the broader garden centre market during this time, the hunt is now on to find the people and product that have driven the most change over the past five decades...

With the debate recurring over perennial ryegrass in lawn mixtures in the press recently, the UK’s most trusted and oldest lawn seed brand is highlighting the benefits of its use in mixtures within its product portfolio along with fescues and bents...

G Plants has launched its latest 'Grow Your Own' product line for autumn and winter. This distinctive range presents an excellent opportunity for retailers to introduce a fun and engaging assortment of gardening GYO products to their customers and is a fun and accessible way to grow fresh herbs, spices, and plants at home...

The Cottage Garden Society team had a very successful weekend at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival.  They revelled in the chance to share all the benefits that the CGS offers to those who love all things related to gardening!

Wyevale Nurseries has created plant displays for Gloucestershire County Council’s plot at the ARB Show at Westonbirt Arboretum....

GTN April 2024 - Garden Centres of the Year.  In this issue:

• AMES – The best tools for the job
• Making the right choice – GTN Interviews Michelle de Lavis Trafford
• Bents – GCA Destination Garden Centre of the Year
• New Journals from Museums & Galleries
• Fairways – GCA Garden Centre of the Year
• Jardinopia bring Indian products to your door
• Newbridge Nurseries – Blue Diamond Oak Garden Centre of the Year
• Vote for your Glee 50 Year Hero products and people
• Border Control – New plant import laws
• Retailing Dutch Style
• New plants galore - GTN Planteria
• Ready for Knockers – EHG Column
• Confidence still high – HTA Column