Launched at Glee 2017 to critical acclaim, Smart Garden’s Flamboya brand has already achieved resounding sales success this season with an unrivalled selection of garden décor products, garden gifts and collectibles. This Glee the brand is going to be expanded even more with over 90 new designs, helping to further cement Flamboya as the market leader in the garden décor category. Read more

The health benefits of gardening are widely reported. However, one area that is often overlooked is the positive impact that gardening can have on the lives of those with dementia. Read more

Fallen Fruits won the award in the Outdoor Leisure and Entertaining category at the GIMA event at Celtic Manor, Newport on Thursday 12th July. Read more

Fallen Fruits have launched the latest addition to their collection of fun, garden benches. A quirky bulldog now joins their incredibly popular dachshund and pig benches. Read more

Their range of garden cushions, parasols and parasol bases is where they started and today most garden centres and retailers of outdoor products sell their cushions and Parasols. Read more

Visitors to the 2018 RHS Hampton Court Flower Show will be among the first to see the new ranges from the Posh Shed Company. Read more

Produced by FIRA to give a greater understanding of fire safety issues that may concern those buying or selling outdoor furniture, the new LOFA Outdoor Furniture Flammability Guide provides a basic introduction to the LOFAssured Scheme with essential information for retailers and consumers. Read more

furnitureoutletstores.co.uk is one of the first UK websites to offer the furniture outlet experience to online shoppers. Their offer includes garden furniture with a guarantee of the UK’s lowest prices. 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

Heinz Kettler Gmbh & Co KG has entered a period of self-administration in order to restructure its German business but leaves the UK operation unaffected. Read more

Online garden furniture retailer White Stores has opened its first concession at Yarnton Nurseries Garden Centre in Oxfordshire as a pilot. Read more

The growing presence of online retailers was clear at the Garden Press Event with two established sites and two newcomers, one launched at the show and one being mysterious about its launch plans. 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

2014 has been dominated by the repositioning of the major gardening goods distributors following the demise of Solus.  The weather for once provided a good news story and towards the end of the year there was a flurry of activity from Wyevale as it picked up eight long established independent garden centres.  See the full review – which is open to all… 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

Certainly Wood – www.certainlywood.co.uk - has created a fantastic new product to introduce people to the delights of cooking on wood. The new Grill N’ Chill bag contains approximately 15 finer-split logs and is perfect for use in a fire pit, BBQ or pizza oven. Read more

Zest 4 Leisure, a leading trade supplier of quality timber products including furniture, gazebos and arbours, has hailed the launch of its new product line-up for summer 2019 a resounding success. Read more

Grange Fencing, the UK’s leading supplier of fencing and decorative garden structures, has introduced a host of new products, boosting what is already the largest range of pressure-treated garden products on the market. Read more

Zest 4 Leisure, a leading trade supplier of quality timber products including furniture, gazebos and arbours, introduced a stunning range of new products for summer 2019 at this year’s SOLEX. Read more

Zest 4 Leisure, a leading trade supplier of quality timber garden products including furniture, arches, arbours and fencing, is getting ready to unveil new products at next month’s SOLEX exhibition at the NEC, Birmingham. Read more

Liberon, the UK’s leading woodcare brand, has launched its first major big-ticket prize competition, offering participating consumers the opportunity to win a home and garden makeover worth £100,000. 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

There was plenty to see and hear at the Garden Press Event including a snail fence, outdoor fragrances, a new urban compost from Scotts and news of some enhanced summer events. 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

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

A new website for Westland, Showa’s bio-degradable gardening gloves, Eden Project seeds, a 10,000 strong Facebook community of Garden Goddesses and Hozelock’s electric weed killer were some of the innovations on show at the Garden Press event. Read more

Valentines Day sees the start of National Nest Box Week as we are not the only creatures to get romantic as spring approaches.   The BTO offers an information pack and ideas. 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

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

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