GTN Xtra - GTN Xtra Issue 23 2018

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Guy Hands puts the "For Sale" notice up at Wyevale Garden Centres

After dropping hints yesterday at The RHS Chelsea Flower Show that the business would be for sale within the next year, Guy Hands' Terra Firma has announced today that the garden centre group is officially up for sale...

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Golds for Hillers, Cooks, Taylors Bulbs and Dibleys at Chelsea 2018
Lupins are the star plant at Chelsea 2018 - they are sure to sell over the coming weeks!

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Best in Show Awards for Mr Fothergills and T&M

Mr Fothergills won the Chelsea New Product of The Year Award and T&M scooped the No 1 and No 3, Chelsea Plant of the Year Awards...

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Get the right compost for your hanging baskets & patio planters
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It’s time to start thinking about your customers hanging baskets and patio planters. Getting the compost right is key to creating beautiful displays that continue to flourish throughout the Summer months...

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Blue Diamond profits increase to £9.2m

"The Group is on course to surpass the budgeted £110m and I can see us being able to double the turnover and still retain those values." says MD Alan Roper as Blue Diamond publish their accounts for 2017...

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Plant sales soar...'just like an old-fashioned bank holiday'

“It was just like an old fashioned Bank Holiday Monday” enthused Sarah Squire to GTN Bestsellers this week as garden centre plants sales lead the way with a record high...

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Profits up by 24% at Westland Horticulture

Profits before tax rose by 24% to £5.2m at Westland Horticulture for the year ending 31st August 2017...

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“You may now kiss the bride” Royal Wedding celebrations at Gouldings

There was free prosecco for customers and “you may now kiss the bride” Dianthus on promotion at Gouldings where the Royal Wedding was played on screens at the Carluke centre...

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The man from Taylors Bulbs with the ‘Midas Touch’ chases his 25th consecutive Chelsea Gold

Taylors Bulbs and Johnny Walkers are hoping to be in line for another Gold Medal for their stunning display of British Grown daffodils from their farm in Lincolnshire...

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Squires host visit from 70 overseas journalists at Twickenham

Gardening journalists from across Europe visited Squire's Garden Centre in Twickenham last Wednesday on a study tour of some of the best UK garden centres...

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spoga+gafa 2018: More space, more themes, added values

From 2 to 4 September 2018 the green industry will once again be meeting up at spoga+gafa, the world's no. 1 garden trade fair. Around 2,100 exhibitors from 60 countries will present the whole world of the garden to the international trade audience...

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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering

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Join leading operators at Commercial Kitchen: 5-6 June
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Now in its third year at the NEC Birmingham, over 2,000 attendees are expected to pack the aisles again when Commercial Kitchen returns on 5-6 June...

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Ivy House All Day Kitchen opens at Groves Nurseries

Groves Nurseries in Bridport welcomed visitors last week at the launch of the Ivy House All Day Kitchen, their impressive new onsite restaurant...

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Adande Grab & Go cabinet wins Sammie award

Adande Refrigeration’s Aircell^® Sarma open front, integral refrigerated Grab & Go cabinet has won the Packaging & Equipment category at the British Sandwich Association’s Sammies Awards 2018...

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Woodlodge ranges to feature at RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Woodlodge will be ‘top of the pots’ as the company contributes to two garden exhibits at the prestigious and world famous RHS Chelsea Flower Show...

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In its 80th anniversary year, Hartley Botanic showcases the value of provenance & history on its RHS Chelsea trade stand

To celebrate 80 ‘trusted years,’ British greenhouse and glasshouse manufacturer Hartley Botanic has unveiled a ‘provenance and history’ themed trade stand at RHS Chelsea this year which provides a snapshot into the incredible stories and plant hunter origins behind some of our best loved and most familiar plants...

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Burgon & Ball showcases New Wonder Weed Puller at RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Burgon & Ball will be showcasing its new Wonder Weed Puller, a Chelsea Product of the Year finalist, at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show – as well as some astonishingly large RHS-endorsed garden tools...

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Mr Fothergill’s joins forces with BBC Children in Need

Mr Fothergill’s have launched two seed packets for children, Sunflower Pudsey and Pumpkin Pudsey, in partnership with BBC Children in Need...

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Garden care just the support act...

The Bank Holiday Monday weather spurred garden product sales towards the highest volume week for the year so far but plant foods, pest control and garden decoration are not moving anywhere near as fast as plants just yet...

Rolawn lend Malvern winners a helping hand

Rolawn topsoils ands mulches were used in 13 award-winning winning gardens at the recent RHS Malvern Spring Festival, following a request from the organisers...

Haskins donates gardening equipment to hospital’s mental health ward

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Haskins Garden Centre in Roundstone has partnered with Meadowfield Hospital in Worthing to donate gardening equipment and tools for Maple Ward, its mental health ward....

Acclaimed gardener, writer and plantswoman Beth Chatto, OBE VMH, dies

Beth Chatto, who was born on 27 June 1923, died peacefully at home in Elmsead Market, Essex, with her family by her side, on the evening of 13th May 2018, aged 94...

Wild bird sales chirpy in the sunshine

Wild Bird Care sales saw their best week since the cold and snow of March, increasing week-on-week by 13%...

Rapper to open RHS Feel Good garden at Chelsea

Rapper Professor Green will officially open the RHS Feel Good Garden, which promotes gardening for health, happiness and wellbeing, at the 2018 RHS Chelsea Flower Show on the preview day next Monday (21 May)...

Growing media sales set new record

Growing Media sales set a new record high from the Bank Holiday Monday onwards...

Dine with Petersham Nurseries at Chelsea Fringe

Petersham Nurseries are among the businesses taking part in an outdoor floral art gallery project as part of next week’s Chelsea Fringe celebrations...

Gardening Journal is a passion for Moleskine

The Gardening Journal, by Moleskine, features a gardening-inspired cover and includes 202 adhesive labels for personalizing the journal...

The best of last week's

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

Home and Garden UK Ltd still alive and trading

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Home and Garden UK Ltd, suppliers of garden sculptures and ornaments, would like to inform everyone that the company is still alive and trading...

Bosworths expand to 2 centres with The Walled Garden at Elton Hall

Bosworths of Burton Latimer, near Kettering, have expanded to two centres by re-opening The Walled Garden Garden Centre at Elton Hall, near Peterborough...

From record low to record high in 10 weeks - GTN Bestsellers reports an all time record for Bank Holiday week

Only 10 weeks after we reported the lowest sales week in UK garden centres, GTN Bestsellers can now report that the week beginning with the May Bank Holiday Monday 2018 was the highest week ever for garden centre sales volumes...

Smart Garden Products named in the FT 1000

A Special Report in the Financial Times in April 2018 has highlighted Smart Garden Products as one of the fastest growing companies in Europe...

Blue Diamond buy Orchard Park Garden Centre

Blue Diamond celebrated the acquisition of their 21st garden centre last week following the completion of the purchase of Orchard Park Garden Centre in Gillingham, North Dorset...