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
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
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
Evergreen grows ahead of the market and competitors
Evergreen Garden Care releases GfK figures to show it is leading the charge in the booming garden care category. Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
YouGarden buys Gardening Direct
Cherry Lane offers food bank collections in-store
Discount retail group QD has introduced food bank collection points in 24 of its stores including nine Cherry Lane Garden Centres. Read more
Blue Diamond tells BHETA the key qualifications for product listing
A team from Blue Diamond including MD Alan Roper outlined the key qualifications for potential product listing in its garden centres at BHETA’s retailer networking forum. Read more
Garden centre headlines around the country
Headlines around the country include a sale and lease back by Dobbies, controversy about breast feeding in a garden centre and thefts of catalytic converters at Bents. Read more
LOFA warns that freight problems are escalating
With container costs approaching $20,000, LOFA warns that freight problems are escalating and asks if this is due to the greed of shipping lines and if they are colluding to increase prices. Read more
Green light for new Perrywood garden centre at Sudbury
Planning permission has been granted for Perrywood’s £8-10m plans to build an inspirational new garden centre at the former Wyevale store at Sudbury. Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Two new non-exec directors for Squire's
Squire’s Garden Centres has appointed two new non-executive Directors. Rob Collins recently retired as MD of Waitrose. Tony Perkins was Audit Lead Partner at BDO. Read more
Dobbies will be peat-free in six months
Dobbies has announced that it will be peat-free in six months, in relation to bagged compost, bringing forward the original target of 2022. Read more
Dobbies and Evergreen trial compost bag recycling
Waste-aware gardeners will now be able to recycle compost packaging thanks to a trial scheme from Dobbies Garden Centres and Evergreen Garden Care. Read more
Hillier counts the cost of Covid-19
Results just published by Hillier Nurseries for the year ending August 2020 show the significant impact Covid-19 had on the second half of the year. Read more
New alliance for Franchi and Mr Fothergill’s Seeds
Mr Fothergill’s Seeds announces a new partnership with Italian seed brand, Franchi Sementi and UK based Italian goods supplier, Seeds of Italy for the coming 2022 gardening season Read more
Orders for 2022 furniture is 3X normal levels say Norfolk
Norfolk Leisure says retailer demand at their trade show was 3X normal levels. They introduced a range of UK designed barbecues and warned of possible delays in Christmas deliveries. Read more