Blue Diamond opens online fashion shop
Blue Diamond has launched an online fashion shop. It will be followed next week by Christmas going live. Read more
Blue Diamond opens online fashion shop
Blue Diamond has launched an online fashion shop. It will be followed next week by Christmas going live. Read more
Primrose has been put up for sale
Online garden retailer, Primrose, has been put up for sale, reports The Times. This confirms rumours within the trade that the company was looking for a buyer. Read more
Online booking for all Dobbies Xmas events
Dobbies has launched its Christmas events programme, with Santa due to arrive at all 68 stores. Safety is Dobbies’ number one priority so booking will be online. Read more
Desch Plantpak acquires IPP factories
Desch Plantpak has acquired all IPP’s commercial activities. This will boost to Desch’s leading position in thermoformed and injection moulded products for the horticultural industry. Read more
Steve Harper leaves The Greener Gardening Company
Steve Harper, sales and marketing director of The Greener Gardening Company (formerly Bord na Mona), left the business last week. Read more
BGC acquires vacant Thatcham GC
British Garden Centres has acquired the former Wyevale garden centre at Thatcham, which has been closed for several months. Re-opening is planned for October. Read more
Which plant varieties will be hot for 2021?
Which plant varieties will be hot for 2021?... the industry has voted at the Ball Colegrave Trial Grounds at West Adderbury. Read more
Overhaul of Hay Lane Garden Centre
Landlord Tony Miller has given Wyevale’s Swindon Hay Lane a complete overhaul and renamed it Studley Grange Garden Centre. Read more
Greenfingers Trading is in liquidation UPDATED
Greenfingers Trading Ltd that ran Greenfingers.com was put into liquidation on 4th August. The website however continues to trade. MD 0f M8 Group, Scott Torrens, explains what happened. Read more
Handy Garden Machinery to close retail outlet
Handy completes its transformation to wholesaler as it closes its retail outlet in Swindon. Read more
Pictures of first Sainsbury's/Dobbies partnership
Dobbies Garden Centres celebrates introducing a range of Sainsbury’s food and grocery products to its flagship store in Edinburgh. Read more
Woodlodge buys Adobe Wholesale and The Garden Foundry
Leading pot supplier, Woodlodge, is extending its garden decoration offer with the acquisition of Adobe Wholesale and The Garden Foundry. Read more
Fresh @ Burcot Garden Centre is closing later this month
Fresh @ Burcot Garden Centre at Bromsgrove is closing later this month. The garden centre is being sold by Nicci and Neil Gow. Read more
Two acquisitions for Eliza Tinsley
Eliza Tinsley has bought Reedy Tools and Greenman Garden Tools. Read more
Wyevale Garden Centres has been wound up
On 28th May Wyevale Garden Centres Ltd, one of garden centres’ biggest names disappeared into history, when it was wound up after trading for 58 years. We look back through the years. Read more
Dobbies reopens 31 soft plays this month
Following updated guidance from the UK Government that soft plays may reopen in England, Dobbies Garden Centres, is reopening 31 soft plays through September. Read more
Perrywood plans major new garden centre for Sudbury
Perrywood is seeking permission to expand and upgrade the Sudbury garden centre it bought from Wyevale 2 years ago, to a size similar to Tiptree. Read more
Morrisons' acquisition widens range of plants
Morrisons has acquired Lansen Nursery. This, its says, will enable its garden centres to develop further, widening the range of outdoor plants. Read more
Hillier Garden Centre Marlow complete their transformation
A major transformation project at Hillier Garden Centre Marlow that began just before the spring has now been completed. Read more
Evergreen looks ahead to 2021
Evergreen Garden Care says demand continues to be 20%-30% up on last year, but warns about expecting growth in 2021. Read more
Granary Group to re-launch Ladd’s next spring
The Granary Group are delighted with the acquisition of Ladds Garden Village as it continues to expand its garden centre portfolio. Read more
Positive covid-19 test at Dobbies Ayr
Dobbies garden centre at Ayr has asked visitors to its restaurant last Friday to be vigilant after a visitor tested positive for Covid-19. Read more
Beckworth Emporium to start £2m upgrade
Beckworth Emporium, between Northampton and Wellingborough, is about to start work on a major upgrade that will lift its sales of plants and gardening. Read more
Fosters of Thrybergh is to close
Fosters Garden Centre in Thrybergh, Rotheram is to close at the end of October after 40 years trading. Read more
Tong adds second restaurant
Tong garden centre is to open a second 180 seat restaurant this autumn on the mezzanine of a recent extension at the Bradford site. Read more
John Lewis looks at garden centres
Part of Dame Sharon White’s transformation review for John Lewis includes building a new gardening business, potentially with new partnerships and acquisitions. Read more
Kingfisher upgrades profit forecast
Kingfisher, the group that operates B&Q and Screwfix in the UK, increased sales by 26% in June. Half year profits will be ahead of last year. Read more
Dobbies partners with Sainsbury’s to sell groceries
Dobbies has partnered with Sainsbury’s to sell a range of the supermarket’s food and groceries at its garden centres. Read more
Northern Irish growers to share £1.5m support package
The HTA reports a £1.5m COVID-19 support package is being offered to Northern Ireland horticultural businesses and calls again for a grant aid scheme for British growers. Read more
Garden centres are cautious about restaurant reopening
While Dobbies are reopening their restaurants as soon as permitted, others are adopting a more cautious approach. Some are not opening this month. Read more