In This Issue
GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards Bumper Issue - read on-line here
Corby + Fellas announce partnership with The Plant Place
Wildlife World leads the way to biodiversity net gain
Flowerpot suppliers merge into British Flowerpots 
Glee New Product Award winner secures £50k Dragons' Den investment offer
Garden Re-Leaf Day will you join the 250 challenge?
GCA Conference digs deep for the Greenfingers Charity
Cost of doing business in environmental horticulture – HTA urges action in Spring Statement
Michael Gove MP visits Plants Limited to discuss critical April border changes
GCA inducts Mike Burks as Honorary Member
Sparsholt College teams up with Colegrave Seabrook Foundation for show garden
Mountfield donates to British Heart Foundation
Squires Award for Bransford Webbs
RECOUP publications aim to improve industry knowledge of packaging sorting and recycling processes
JUB Holland, Keukenhof & Rijnbeek Perennials donate ‘garden’ to the Greenfingers Charity
RHS brings radiance of popular orchid show to the capital
Committing to significantly reducing carbon emissions annually
Hottest garden trends for 2024, according to the experts
National Children’s Gardening Week partners with The World of Peter Rabbit
Get your copy of GTN Xtra
Hillier welcomes two new Account Managers to Amenity team
Industry, government and science work together to protect plant health
RHS thanks Matthew Pottage for contribution to RHS Garden Wisley
New Communications Manager for Luceco
Connecting people with living green for healthier cities
King Charles III Tulipa in flower at Keukenhof and at Monty Don’s Longmeadow
The best of last week's
Dobbies launches outlet stores in Northumberland and Warwickshire
Dobbies appoints Andy Hannan as Commercial Director
DCUK goes from strength to strength
Kate’s run for Greenfingers run has now raised over £7,500
Cancer-free Kev to run a half marathon in his wellies
GTN’s Greatest Christmas Award winners revealed
Sponsors giving prizes for the winners
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GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards Bumper Issue - read on-line here

GTN February 2024 - GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards Bumper Issue

  • The Greatest Christmas Awards presentations at Spring Fair
  • GCA Conference Award winners
  • Primeur: the home of doormats
  • Environmental perceptions of garden centres
  • Westlands New Horizon Community Fund
  • Busy Bee tops the customer vote for Christmas greatness
  • 23 pages of judges photos and comments from The Greatest Christmas Awards start here: Barton Grange, Cooks, BGC Harrogate, Pugh’s, Gates, Haskins Snowhill, Woodlands, Kent, Squires Badshot Lea, Polhill, Old Railway Line, Klondyke High Legh, Poundbury, Birkacre, Alton, Blue Diamond Newbridge, Garsons Esher, Brimsmore, Glendoick, Chessington, Wentworth, Klondyke Astbury Meadow, Cambridge Home & Garden, Bents, BGC Studley, Coolings, Newquay, The Grange, Garsons Titchfield, Keydell, Perrywood Tiptree, BGC, Dobbies, Gouldings Santa Experience, Dobbies Edinburgh and Tewkesbury, Mackenzie & Cruickshank, Munros, Pengelly, Planters Tamworth
  • Thank you to our Sponsors
  • Flashes of Christmas Inspiration
  • Harrogate Show Ideas for Christmas 2024
  • Planting Manifesto Ideas – HTA Column
  • Supply Chain Challenges – GIMA Column
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Corby + Fellas announce partnership with The Plant Place
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Corby + Fellas have announced the partnership with The Plant Place and the implementation of their acclaimed WinRetail System to run the Garden Centres Retail, Hospitality, Loyalty and Events operations...

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Wildlife World leads the way to biodiversity net gain
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Wildlife World, a pioneer in biodiversity products, has launched a range of premium wildlife habitats tailored for nature restoration and biodiversity net gain projects through habitat supplement intervention...

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Flowerpot suppliers merge into British Flowerpots 

Naylor Gardenware has agreed to merge with Smith & Jennings with effect from Friday 1 March 2024...

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Glee New Product Award winner secures £50k Dragons' Den investment offer

Lancashire entrepreneur Gemma Connolly, whose unique edible greeting cards for dogs Scoff Paper won a Glee New Product Award in 2021, has secured major backing from BBC Dragons’ Den star Sara Davies...

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Garden Re-Leaf Day will you join the 250 challenge?
 

This year, Greenfingers has set the “250 challenge” which they hope could help retailers to become the biggest combined contributors to this special Garden Re-Leaf Day event...

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GCA Conference digs deep for the Greenfingers Charity

The recent Garden Centre Association (GCA) conference was not only an informative and educational event, but it also featured a lot of fundraising for the garden retail sector’s adopted charities, including Greenfingers. In fact, delegates dug so deep into their pockets, wallets and purses that it has been confirmed that over £25,0000 was raised for Greenfingers during the event!

Woodlodge’s Ian Flounders raised over £7.500 by shaving off his ‘Santa’ beard.

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Cost of doing business in environmental horticulture – HTA urges action in Spring Statement
 

The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) has set our clear asks to the Chancellor of the Exchequer ahead of the Spring Statement 2024....

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Michael Gove MP visits Plants Limited to discuss critical April border changes

As part of its push to get clarity on the details of the April border changes, the Horticultural Trades Association joined Plants Limited in welcoming the Rt Hon Michael Gove MP to their site in Surrey...

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GCA inducts Mike Burks as Honorary Member
 

Mike Burks, managing director of The Gardens Group, which owns Castle Gardens in Sherborne, Brimsmore Gardens in Yeovil and Poundbury Gardens near Dorchester, has been awarded Honorary Membership of the Garden Centre Association (GCA)...

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Sparsholt College teams up with Colegrave Seabrook Foundation for show garden

Sparsholt College, Hampshire, has teamed up with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation to create Sparsholt’s 2024 RHS Chelsea Flower Show Garden entitled ‘Plants, Routes & Branches’...

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GTN’s Greatest Christmas Award winners revealed
Gold awards for Haskins Snowhill, Old Railway Line, Gates, Barton Grange, Pugh’s Radyr, Polhill, Woodlands (Kent), Chessington, BGC Harrogate, Squires Badshot Lea, Cooks, Birkacre, Busy Bee

BGC Harrogate, Squires Badshot Lea, Cooks, Birkacre, Pugh’s Radyr, Barton Grange and Busy Bee have picked up Greatest Garden Centre Christmas Team golds in GTN’s Greatest Christmas Awards, presented at Spring Fair on Monday. Kaemingk walked away with The Greatest Christmas Supplier gold...

See the full list of winners and all the photos from the awards presentations at Spring Fair
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Sponsors giving prizes for the winners

Our team of judges have now completed the task of visiting the 100 garden centres who were nominated for GTN’s Greatest Christmas Awards 2023.  And our sponsors which include: AMES, Glee 2024, Kaemingk, LeisureGrow, NOMA , MorePeople, PATS 2024, Smart Garden Products, Solex 2024, Stars for Europe, Three Kings and Woodmansterne have been lining up prizes for the category winners...

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Mountfield donates to British Heart Foundation
 

The Mountfield team like to help charities whenever they can and were pleased this Heart Month to make a donation of one of their mowers to be auctioned off for the British Heart Foundation (BHF) at the Cape Cornwall Golf Club...

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Squires Award for Bransford Webbs

The Bransford Webbs Plant Company were thrilled to be awarded the Best Hardy Plant Supplier of the Year at the Squires Annual Plant Show last week at Squires, West Horsley, for the second year in a row...

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RECOUP publications aim to improve industry knowledge of packaging sorting and recycling processes
 

Plastics resource efficiency and recycling charity, RECOUP, have released their latest set of case studies ‘MRF Processes – Understanding Material Sorting’ and ‘Packaging Design Principles – Small Changes for a Big Impact.’  

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JUB Holland, Keukenhof & Rijnbeek Perennials donate ‘garden’ to the Greenfingers Charity

Dutch flower experts, JUB Holland, Keukenhof and Rijnbeek Perennials will be showcasing many of its stunning early flowering varieties through a mini ‘perennial meadow’ display at the Garden Press Event. And it has been confirmed that post-event this garden will be donated to the Greenfingers Charity, where it will be replanted at one of its children’s hospice gardens....

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RHS brings radiance of popular orchid show to the capital

The Royal Horticultural Society is bringing a slice of tropical life to the heart of London as one of its most popular events, the annual RHS Orchid Show, comes to the capital next month...

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Committing to significantly reducing carbon emissions annually

Branded Garden Products has announced it has become a Planet Mark Certified organisation – a reward for its commitment and efforts towards combatting climate change...

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Hottest garden trends for 2024, according to the experts

Johanna Elvidge, Head of Domestic Design at Marshalls has shared the garden, patio and colour trends that are likely to make an appearance in 2024...

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National Children’s Gardening Week partners with The World of Peter Rabbit
 

Save the date! National Children’s Gardening Week will again be partnering with THE WORLD OF PETER RABBIT from 25 May to 2 June 2024...

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