2025 was a year of solid growth for British Garden Centres, with sales and profits increasing and 8 sites added at the beginning of the year. Read more - members only

Irish Christmas Tree Growers (ICTG) will stage its annual Harvest Field Day at Laganvale Farm, Lisburn, Co Down, on Friday 2 October, with demonstrations of how drone technology can help growers. Read more - members only

Paris has been named Grand Winner of the AIPH World Green City Awards 2026, with its initiative ‘Retrofitting Paris into a biodiversity friendly city’. Read more - members only

Christmas Wishlist Award for Blue Diamond and Diddly Squat as they extend their tie-up with a garden gift collection which combines practicality and humour. Read more - members only

British Garden Centres (BGC) is marking the fifth anniversary of its Family Card with a group‑wide upgrade, with new perks, digital improvements and a coordinated in‑store rollout this weekend. Read more - members only

Accounts for the year to February 2026 show that Dobbies remained loss-making, despite reporting “strong progress” since its restructuring. Read more - members only

Evesham-headquartered supplier and distributor of horticultural products BHGS Limited, has appointed administrators from BTG, the financial and real estate advisory group.  It continues to trade. Read more - members only

Despite record heat, UK garden centre revenues rose 2% in August.  Consumer confidence, the general economic outlook and the major purchase index are on the rise, says the HTA.  Updated Read more - members only

Finding one game-changing product at Glee is unusual. Finding two—or perhaps three—with the potential to reshape their categories is exceptional. Read more - members only

Alan Roper, CEO of Blue Diamond Garden Centres, used his Glee 2026 keynote to deliver one of the clearest assessments yet of the pressures reshaping the UK garden centre sector. Read more - members only

Bell Plantation Garden Centre, on Watling Street near Towcester, has joined the Prosper Garden Centre Buying Group, increasing its membership to ten independent, family-owned businesses. Read more - members only

Leading garden retailers have been named in the Government’s latest National Minimum Wage enforcement round, published on 3 September 2026. Read more - members only