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Plants sales shine – 5.6% up on last year
 
Plants led the way at the end of May with our GTN Bestsellers All Plants Index the only one to be up year on year – 5.6% up to be precise.

The Top 50 Bestselling plants were 23% up on last week with Pelargoniums, including all those bedding and pot ‘geraniums’, up by 22% to outsell the total of Petunias and Begonias at No 2 and 3 in the popularity stakes.

Here is this weeks Top 20:

The UK Garden Centre Plants Bestsellers Chart
    
Week Ending Sunday 28th May 2017
    
This WeekLast weekPlant genusVolume Sales Change
11Pelargonium (inc "bedding geraniums")Increase
22Petunia +50% Increase
33BegoniaIncrease
44FuchsiaIncrease
58AlyssumIncrease
67LobeliaIncrease
75Osteospermum 
86Impatiens 
910DianthusIncrease
109BacopaIncrease
1112NemesiaIncrease
1211VerbenaIncrease
1314DahliaIncrease
1416CosmosIncrease
1513Antirrhinum 
1625Salvia +100% Increase
1715LavandulaIncrease
1824Rose +50% Increase
1917ArgyranthemumIncrease
2020TagetesIncrease


To see the full GTN Bestsellers Top 50 Plants chart every week subscribe to GTN Bestsellers using this link or email karen.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk
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