Choice Marketing has become Choice Garden Centre Group as the independent buying group marks 25 years, reports record rebate income and expands its membership. Read more - members only

Blue Diamond’s acquisitions and industry beating like-for-like sales growth lift half year profits to £24m, as the group raises its market leading profile. Read more - members only

Perrywood Garden Centres is celebrating the first anniversary of the redevelopment of its Sudbury site after sales rocketed to £9m — the target originally set for year three. Read more - members only

Martin Ward has left GIMA only months after taking over as director, prompting the association to put interim support in place while it reviews its longer-term needs. Read more - members only

Sika has acquired Ipswich-based Azpects Group, adding a leading range of paving and hard-landscaping products to its UK business. Read more - members only

Read the HTA’s vision of the future.  AI, robotics, resilience and gene editing: UK plant and tree production in a changing climate.   Read more - members only

There is a new energy at Vitax as the family-owned garden care specialist steps up investment in production, people, products and marketing under chief executive Anja Gooding. Read more - members only

Garden centres are switching on Christmas.  From Blue Diamond’s group-wide preview evenings to Bents’ theatrical light trail, operators are giving customers more reasons to visit—and return. Read more - members only

September brought some welcome recovery for garden centres, but it is important to keep this in perspective. HTA Market Update for September says Gardening sales are still behind last year… Read more - members only

The B&Q and Screwfix owner has appointed the former OBI chief executive to lead its next phase of growth. Read more - members only

Webbs Garden Centres has reported a resilient performance for the year to 4 January 2026, with sales rising, profits improving and the business continuing to invest despite significant cost pressures. Read more - members only

Blue Diamond Garden Centres has acquired a 42-acre warehouse site at Pollington, East Yorkshire, more than doubling its existing warehousing capacity. Read more - members only