B&Q’s Sir Ian Cheshire stepped into the debate about Scottish independence, with several publications reporting his warning that investment would be put on pause if Scotland voted in favour of independence. See more... Read more
Kingfisher has released trading figures showing 10.5% growth on last year. Pack bedding, fence panels, rattan and resin furniture showed strong growth. See more... Read more
Which? Gardening calls on compost manufacturers to add a production date to bags of compost as it again finds old stock on garden centres. See more... Read more
Danny Adamson has teamed up with Kärcher as the company seeks to become a significant supplier of garden watering products to UK garden centres. See more... Read more
William Sinclair shares opened 20% lower as the company warned that sales were lower than was anticipated from a return to more normal weather patterns. See more… Read more
Wyevale Containers, Wyevale Trees and Wyevale Transplants in Herefordshire have officially re-launched this month under the generic name Wyevale Nurseries, with Andy Johnson as MD. See more.... Read more
Brantano opens in two TGCG garden centres with more to follow as companies such as WH Smith and Viners open concessions in the group's stores. See more… Read more
Garden furniture, sundries and plants drive strong garden centre sales in April; and stock keeps flowing despite upheavals in the supply chain. There is a feeling that the gardening feel-good factor is back. See more... Read more
Hillview Garden Centres has acquired Little Heath Garden Centre. This is the 7th site acquired by the group in 2014. See more... Read more
Solus says good progress is being made in talks with potential trade and financial investors, but the process will take a few weeks. See more... Read more
Stewart Hainsworth started as CEO of Gardman last September. He has spent his first 7 months looking and listening, building a new management team, restoring relations with agents and changing the culture. See more... Read more
Weeks before a public enquiry to hear an appeal against enforcement action that would effectively close Hare Hatch Sheeplands, there is hope of a negotiated settlement. See more… Read more
Yarnton Nurseries has had plans to build 14 houses on surplus land turned down due to Green Belt restrictions. See more... Read more
Negotiations between Scotts and Solus have broken down without a deal and the distribution agreement between the two companies has expired. See more... Read more
Notcutts is to hold the official reopening of the garden centre at Tunbridge Wells next week. At the same time it has emerged that former FD Andrew Staff has been confirmed as the new COO. See more... Read more
Shortly before its sale to TGCG, Garden & Leisure completed a deal with Waitrose that would redevelop Percy Thrower’s garden centre. Work has now started on the new development. See more... Read more
As PwC confirms that discussions with interested parties about buying Solus are still ongoing, Edward Conroy suggests this is an opportunity to reflect on our progress as an industry and to consider what still needs to be done. See more... Read more
Compass Group’s Instore has secured a new five-year partnership with Homebase to install 30 coffee shops. See more... Read more
Notcutts has put 445 acres of Suffolk farmland up for sale. The money raised will allow further investment in the core garden centre business. See more... Read more
Administrators from PwC have announced 91 redundancies at Solus so the business can continue trading while discussions with interested parties continue. See more... Read more
Rob Hunt and Tony Barrell of PwC have been appointed joint administrators of Solus Garden & Leisure Limited today, 15 May 2014. The company will continue to trade while a buyer is sought. This story is open to all See more... Read more
Marshalls says order books for domestic installers of its landscape products have stretched to 11.5 weeks and is predicting better than expected results for 2014. See more… Read more
Delamore, which grows young plants for UK growers, has announced that it is taking on the growing, sales and distribution of the Volmary product range in this country. See more... Read more
Next has opened its first store to focus purely on the home and garden part of the business, at Cribbs Causeway. See more... Read more
The sales and distribution of Haxnicks products is to move from Smart Solar to Tildenet, the netting and ground cover specialist at the end of May. See more... Read more
TGCG has drawn from Dixons, Homebase, Waitrose and Britvic to expand its trading division and bring the best of the retail industry to the gardening world. See more… Read more
Last week saw the official opening of the £2.5m extension at Highfield Garden World that has doubled sales and makes it one of the largest garden centres in the country. See more... Read more
Guy Hands talks about his strategy for TGCG, a business that was in need of fundamental change in 2012, when Terra Firma bought it. A director describes how the puzzling stock of goods was reassessed. See more... Read more
Solus engages Grant Thornton and says it is in talks as Bayer becomes the latest supplier to move away. See more... Read more
TGCG has announced the new regional operations structure for its garden centres, but it is not strictly regional as the group seeks synergies from centres of a similar size. See more... Read more