Garden centres benefitted from a surge of TV and Radio coverage in the run up to Easter. Bents, Barton Grange, Scotsdales and some smaller centres featured on national and local TV, radio and on-line coverage for Easter gardening.
On Good Friday morning Guy Topping from Barton Grange was interviewed live on BBC Breakfast News. Unfortunately we have not been able to find the links yet and no one at Barton Grange thought to take any photos of Guy in his moment of fame. If anyone finds the link, please let us know and we'll pass it on.
On BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester there was a broadcast about garden centres. It is trailed at 1.11 into the programme, followed by an interesting bit about the weather, there is a bit more around 2.20 and then the piece follows. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p015svdj
It was good to see and hear that the Easter garden centre news coverage was more about garden centres dievrsifying to grow and suceed rather than the doom and gloom caused by the wintery conditions.
Congratulations should go to the GCA and their PR company, Porcupine, for acheiving these unprecedented levels of TV and Radio coverage for our trade. It's just a shame the good old British weather couldn't even deliver us a "normal" weekend!
