Caulders Garden Centres buy Hetland Garden Centre in Dumfries

Caulders Garden Centres, Scotland’s fastest growing garden centre operators, are to buy Hetland Garden Centre in Dumfries. Read more - members only

Colin Barrie

Second little dobbies opens in London

Dobbies Garden Centres has opened its second London-based little dobbies and the fourth overall to open in the last 12 months. Read more - members only

A very good year for Woodthorpe Hall

2020 was a very good year of trading at Woodthorpe Hall Garden Centres Ltd, the first full trading period since buying 14 garden centres from Wyevale in February and June 2019. Read more - members only

The red dots are Woodthorpe Hall Garden Centres

BGC to rebuild Tarporley Garden Centre

British Garden Centres have been given consent to replace the existing glass buildings at Tarporley with a purpose-built garden centre. Read more - members only

Blue Diamond adopts Critizr for customer relationship drive

Blue Diamond has announced a partnership with Customer Interaction Management specialists Critizr, to improve customer experience across its portfolio of garden centres. Read more - members only

Redfields Garden Centre

5th little dobbies is to open

Dobbies is to open its 3rd little dobbies store in greater London in a former Topshop, having appointed Savills to roll out the brand across the UK. Read more - members only

little dobbies - Westbourne Grove

Dramatic 18 months for Mr Fothergill’s

Mr Fothergill’s revealed the dramatic 18 months of growth and restrictions that the seed supplier, like many garden suppliers, has had to navigate and asks what will be the New Normal? Read more - members only

Runner beans on the Mr Fothergill's trials grounds

New owners for White Lodge Garden Centre

On Wednesday White Lodge Garden Centre near Turriff in Aberdeenshire closes to re-open on Saturday under new ownership as Parkhill at White Lodge. Read more - members only

Significant investment promised for Compo as MBO completes

Duke Street has completed the acquisition of Compo, the largest European producer and distributor of consumer gardening soil, fertiliser, plant protection and lawn seeds. Read more - members only

Hillier Trees for Maggie’s new cancer support centre

Hillier Trees has supplied more than 100 British-grown trees, helping to create a tranquil oasis for visitors to the new Maggie’s cancer centre in Southampton Read more - open to all

Local MP demands answers from Dobbies over closure of Butterfly World

A local MP has urged Dobbies, in Edinburgh News, to provide answers and halt dismantling of the site of Butterfly and Insect World until all options are explored. Read more - members only

Dobbies to create around 1000 jobs over the next five years

Dobbies tells Environment Minister Rebecca Pow that the business is set to create around 1000 jobs over the next five years as it signs up for ‘Plant for our Planet’. Read more - members only

Environment Minister Rebecca Pow and Dobbies GEO Graeme Jenkins

B&M spring sales fail to match 2020

B&M, with 684 UK stores, says a pull-forward in Gardening demand boosted LFL in the final two weeks March and early weeks April and depressed the subsequent weeks. Read more - members only

Covid Closes Glendoick for a few days

Glendoick Garden Centre has been forced to close for a few days due to a small COVID outbreak amongst staff. Read more - open to all

Latest garden centre results hit by 1st lockdown (open to all)

Our latest company results show the impact of the first Covid lockdown on Frosts, Gordon Rigg, Highfield, Scotsdale and Van Hage. Suppliers such as Allensmore, Tom Chambers and Vitax grew sales. Read more - open to all

Carbon Gold wins Best Eco-Friendly Product Award

Carbon Gold, the leading supplier of biochar products to professional growers, tree care specialists and gardeners around the world, has been announced as the winner of the Eco-Friendly Products Award in the 2021 Great British Growing Awards. Read more - open to all

Acquisition by Evergreen GC in Germany

Evergreen Garden Care has acquired GPI Green Partners International GMBH in Germany, a leading supplier of fertilisers and plant protection products. Read more - members only

Trade ahead of forecast in first BGC South accounts

The inaugural accounts for BGC South have been published for the period ending 31/12/2020.  This gives a first look at one of the two companies that comprise British Garden Centres. Read more - members only

Yellow dots for BGC South

Veolia innovation increases composting recovery

Following successful large-scale trials, Veolia has demonstrated a new way of treating the 25% of green waste that ends up being sent for disposal or re-composting. Read more - open to all

It’s August, so that means….Christmas!

Smart’s band of Singing Elves, a.k.a. The Wrappers, are already despatching seasonal deliveries to the UK’s garden centres….. Read more - open to all

Autumn bulb lifting delayed by torrential rain

The bulb harvesting programme is delayed 2 weeks leading to a delay in deliveries according to Taylors Bulbs, because of weather in the spring and now in August. Read more - members only

Plants Galore in free give away of plants worth £100k

Staff shortages are forcing Devon based Plants Galore to give away £100k of plants.  Customers can collect them from their garden centres this weekend. Read more - members only

Is T&M for sale?

The financial website, This is Money, has reported that the owners of Thompson & Morgan, are working with advisers from KPMG on 'strategic options', which could lead to a sale. Read more - members only

New opening roof to provide year-round shopping at Highfield

Highfield Garden World, a leading family owned destination garden centre in Gloucestershire, has secured permission to build a 3,362m² structure with an opening roof over its plant area. Read more - members only

Three generations of the Greenway family

Garden centres back launch of Sproutl

UK tech start-up, Sproutl, has launched an online gardening marketplace, with Polhill, Rosebourne and Millbrook as partners and $9m of seed funding. Read more - members only

Anni Noel-Johnson with Andy Done

Green-tech adds Rainbird Irrigation Systems to its portfolio

Green-tech has joined forces with Rainbird, a leading global manufacturer and provider of irrigation products. Read more - open to all

The first London-based little dobbies opens

The first London-based little dobbies has opened.  This will be the third little dobbies in the UK, after Edinburgh and Bristol. A fourth is in the pipeline. Read more - members only

Seiont Nurseries and Joy of Plants to promote new plants

One of the UK’s leading plug and liner suppliers has this month partnered with a plant information company to offer its customers a library of images for webshops and websites. Read more - open to all

Neil Alcock

Travel concession opens at British Garden Centres

Travel agency Holiday’s By Design will open this July inside Brigg Garden Centre, the flagship of British Garden Centres, offering bespoke holidays around the globe. Read more - open to all

Final approval for Blue Diamond at Scotch Corner

Councillors have given the green light to the proposed 10,700 sq ft. garden centre to be let to Blue Diamond at a designer outlet to be built at Scotch Corner.  Now Government must give final approval. Read more - members only

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