The national community, school, and gardens for better health campaign, Cultivation Street, enters its eighth year in 2020 and is excited to announce Miracle-Gro® as the sponsor for 2020 (previous sponsors have been the HTA and Calliope). Read more

The run-up to Christmas this year sees the launch of Illumination Street, a national campaign to brighten up the streets of Britain with Christmas cheer. Read more

Glee 2019 was a huge success; it was our best show to date! We received an overwhelmingly positive response to the 350+ new lines in our SS20 collection, featuring trend leading indoor and outdoor planters, fire bowls and accessories. Read more

Holidays and long weekends away can often cause problems for anyone leaving houseplants behind. Luckily, LECHUZA’s self-watering planters are here to save the day and remove all of the guesswork and worries, allowing plants to take care of themselves for weeks at time. Read more

A new report published by Grown in Britain is warning that Christmas trees imported from mainland Europe could be providing a pathway for new pests and diseases to enter the UK. Read more

Bents and Cowells top the first day’s awards at the 2018 GCA conference. Also prominent were Fairways of Ashbourne, Stratford and Barton Grange Garden Centres. Read more

The majority of garden centres say Christmas sales were up but competition is increasing and December sales were disappointing for some. Read more

The legal battle between Vivid Arts and Tom Chambers regarding allegations of design right infringement, copyright infringement and passing off has been resolved. Read more

Believing that good buyers have not been given the recognition they deserve, Glee is asking you to nominate people or teams that might qualify as the country’s best buyers for awards being introduced at the show. Read more

The latest figures from the GCA show 2014 was the best year for 4 years with December beating May as the biggest sales month of the year. 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

As part of this week’s National Tree Week activities (23 November – 1 December), the HTA has partnered with The Tree Council and the Daily Mail to use the National Garden Gift Voucher scheme to encourage tree sales through HTA member businesses. Read more

Fallen Fruits are delighted to announce our best ever Glee. The new stand concepts and products were well received and attracted customers new and old to the stand.  Read more

From snug winter gloves to light-up children’s wellies, Town & Country has got the British winter covered. Read more

Part of the Henry Bell family, Constant Garden Collection is a new premium brand of faux plants for home and garden launching at trade show Glee this September.   Read more

Smart Garden Products has announced the purchase of Briers, the leading glove supplier, from administrators. Read more

Elho’s Good(s)Factory has completed the purchase of Ebertsankey as Fiskars focuses on its core consumer business. Read more

Latest figures from the GCA Barometer of trade show how revenue from gifts and Christmas lines doubled in October. Outdoor plant sales were also good. Read more

If August is wet plant sales prosper. If it is dry garden furniture sales do well. Last month was different. It was wet and dry in different areas and both categories flourished according to the latest GCA figures. But long term trend shows the proportional fall of traditional gardening. Read more

Sunshine Garden Centre and Van Hage are the best GCA outdoor living retailers.  Cowell’s and Bents are the best for plants. Read more

The GCA has named 13 regional winners in their annual Christmas display competition.  To see where to go to see the best displays. Read more

2013 turned out to be another disappointing year in all three key sectors of the garden retail market – garden plants, garden care and garden leisure – with all three sectors showing a steady decline in the five years to 2013 covered by the Analysis. Read more