The Home Retail Group has confirmed about 80 Homebase stores, a quarter of its portfolio, will close within the next three years. See more… Read more

Garden centres regularly complain they are the showroom for online garden furniture retailers. A recent collaboration between Primrose.co.uk and Toad Hall Garden Centre may be a signpost to the future. Read more

The financial press has been speculating that Tesco will offload non-core assets, such as Dobbies, as the supermarket responds to its accounting crisis. Read more

Wyevale Garden Centres has announced the purchase of Moreton Park Garden Centre at Wrexham on the England Wales border. Read more

Notcutts is to open phase 2 of Wheatcroft garden centre. The centrepiece is “The Street Kitchen” themed restaurant where each van cooks a different type of cuisine. See more… Read more

Tom Chambers has announced the recent acquisition of Auld Lang Stone, the first of several acquisitions targeted by the company. Read more

C-Crafts, the company run by former of Hobbycraft chief executive, is to open its first manned arts and crafts concession in Bents with the second to be announced shortly.  See more… Read more

Administrators will continue to trade Tall Trees Garden Centre and The Nottingham Aquatic Centre for a short period while a purchaser is sought. See more... Read more

Homebase continues to close stores amid media speculation that it could be spun-off from the Home Retail Group. But a shareholder vetoes a sell off. See more... Read more

Crest Garden has supplied over 300 stockists in its first month of trading and goes public on the three brands to be unveiled at Glee. See more… Read more

Financial information services, Bloomberg and Reuters, are reporting that Terra Firma is looking to sell Wyevale, until recently The Garden Centre Group. But Gardenforum understands there is little behind these stories. See more… Read more

A Landscape Juice investigation has revealed that Amazon.co.uk is openly advertising the banned herbicide Sodium Chlorate on its website via its sellers. See more… Read more

The Prince’s Trust justifies the closure of Fulham Palace Garden Centre, despite a petition to retain it. See more… Read more

Highfield Garden World has shown significant growth following the opening, this spring, of additional retail space and a 450 seat restaurant with views over the river Severn. See more… Read more

It appears that a number of garden retailers have unexpectedly run into credit problems with Scotts Miracle-Gro because of money still owed to Solus. See more… Read more

Electrolux Home Products has purchased the BeefEater brand of barbecues and outdoor lifestyle appliances from Woodland Home Products. Staff of both companies were informed last week. Read more

Scotts has reopened the Solus Droitwich showrooms with a permanent display of the wider gardening range offered by Scotts Solus.  This is a first manifestation of a 3-year integration plan. Read more

Guy Hands tells the Evening Standard, that Terra Firma has moved Wyevale from being plant- and horticultural-based to more like a leisure company. Read more

Sinclair is to advertise on TV next spring as it completes the new sales team, refreshes its brands, returns to wholesalers and promises to be a company that is easy to deal with. Read more

Barton Grange group is to sell Garden Centre Plants and two nurseries belonging to Northern Liners. This will allow the group to concentrate on the garden centre at Brock and its substantial landscaping business. Read more

One Tim leaves Wyevale as another joins. Tim Clapp, head of horticulture, is to leave at the end of the month for B&Q. Tim Patten joins as multi-channel director. Read more

Hillview has completed the paperwork to acquire The Garden Store business, eight months after the two companies effectively started trading as one. See more… Read more

Sir Ian Cheshire names his successor as group chief executive of Kingfisher and outlines B&Q’s strategy of store closures and resizing as it adapts to the new digital age. See more… Read more

Last November, Westland acquired Seramis, the German manufacturer of water retaining clay granules. It used SPOGA Gafa to launch a new range of products for Europe. See more... Read more

Garden centres and pet shops are facing a possible ban on the sale of puppies and kittens in a move designed to stamp out ‘horrific’ puppy farming. See more… Read more

Westland backed Crest Garden has announced a joint-venture with pot and tray manufacturer Desch Plantpak, which is completing a £2 million investment in the UK. See more… Read more

Dobbies schedules an autumn opening for its first new format ‘store within a store’, within a Tesco. See more... Read more

A petition signed by neighbours has been successful in persuading Pets at Home to withdraw from leasing the Fulham Palace Garden Centre according to GetwestLondon. See more... Read more

The COO of Decco says that there are a lot of uncertainties for 2015. Manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers must plan and work together closely to manage distribution after the loss of Solus as a wholesaler. See more... Read more

Scotts recognises that it has much to do before Glee, to restore confidence with Solus customers. It has written today confirming that all Solus products will be available for the autumn, but has yet to determine a permanent route to market. See more… Read more