Dobbies wins 'Best Trade Stand at Chelsea.  Its floral map highlights the 31 Wyevale Garden centres that are about to join the group in batches.  Read more - members only

“By any standards, 2018 was a dramatic year for Blue Diamond,” said chairman Simon Burke as accounts for the year show sales grew 32%.  Turnover should approach £200m within 5 years. Read more - members only

Wyevale Garden Centres has sold Worthing Ferring to Cobbins Nursery.  It is also to end its central distribution contract with XPO. Read more - members only

The parent company of Cotswold Outdoor, a concession holder on several of the largest garden centres, has agreed a CVA. Read more - members only

Andrew and Caroline Notcutt cut the ribbon on the refurbished Booker garden centre.  Two thirds of the groups’ centres have now been refreshed in the £40m upgrade programme. Read more - members only

Peter Beales Roses celebrates the opening of a new restaurant at their garden centre in Attleborough East Anglia and the launch of the Thorncroft clematis collection. Read more - members only

4 years after selling their garden centre to Wyevale, Martin and Jean Davies are to buy back Raglan Garden Centre, through Coldbrook Ventures Ltd. Read more - members only

Bicester Avenue takes off under Blue Diamond.  Commenting on close to 6-figure sales on Easter Monday, Alan Roper says, “It seems we may have unleashed a beast.” Read more - members only

Cherry Lane garden centres has opened nursery No. 3 to supply ‘Grown by Us’ to its 13 value driven garden centres. Read more - members only

As the Dobbies deal is announced, Marcus Eyles told GIMA suppliers his task is to put a heritage gardening brand back on the map after the difficult Tesco years. By 2020 the Dobbies offer must be completely different. Read more - members only

Wyevale Garden Centres have announced the sale of 31 centres to Dobbies Garden Centres for an undisclosed sum. Read more - members only

Julian Winfield, CX of Haskins, said, “Doing the construction in two phases like this has undoubtedly added time and cost to the project, but we believe that there are enormous benefits to our approach.” Read more - members only

The new owner of Leighton Buzzard Garden Centre has just completed phase 1 of a face lift.  He also owns Willington Garden Centre near Bedford and owns a supplier of terracotta glazed pots. Read more - members only

Notcutts Garden Centres, has hosted its annual conference and awards dinner to celebrate the success of colleagues and teams across its 18 garden centres nationwide. Read more - members only

Dobbies has identified an opportunity to grow sales by addressing visitors everyday shopping needs.  This has led to a deal with Nisa across 35 foodhalls. Read more - members only

Wyevale yesterday calmed supplier fears that the sale process could end in administration for the rump of garden centres. Read more - members only

CEO, Veronique Laury has unveiled GoodHome, the project driven future for B&Q in the UK as part of the unified, digital Kingfisher. Read more - members only

Kingfisher reports that first quarter sales of unified ranges continue to grow ahead of non-unified ranges. The new outdoor range was rolled out to all markets with a global marketing campaign. Read more - members only

Accounts just published show how the Beast from the East and the fire at Stokesley hampered Klondyke Group sales in an otherwise successful trading year. Read more - members only

The management of GroWell, a leading online supplier of hydroponics equipment with stores around the country, have completed a management buy-out. Read more - members only

Dobbies has sold one of the Wyevale garden centres it bought last year to LXI, a property investment company, in a 30-year sale and lease back deal. Read more - members only

Plans have been submitted for an 8500 sq m. Blue Diamond garden centre on the Elveden Estate, while further plans have been submitted for the 53 acre outlet village and garden centre near Tewkesbury. Read more - members only

Wyevale is changing its Garden Club from a points based reward scheme to instant rewards with 5% discount at the till or online. It will also stop selling its own branded gift cards. Read more - members only

ScanCom has warned of scam emails to customers purporting to change a suppliers banking details. They are very believable and could fool the unwary. Several companies have had similar experiences. Read more - members only

Wyevale will have realised almost 80% of the its value when the current sales complete. 59 of its mostly smaller garden centres will remain. Consultation is to start on reducing the size of head office. We look at the list of garden centres sold. Read more - members only

Wyevale Garden Centres has announced two transactions for a total of six centres to garden centre groups Hillier Nurseries and Otter Nurseries. Read more - members only

Evergreen has started its TV campaign for Miracle-Gro and Roundup which runs till the middle of June. Read more - members only

Following the purchase of Brooke House Exhibitions, BHETA is to restructure with Will Jones as COO and Clare Holland as finance director. Read more - members only

APAC Group is to build its first floristry centre, a new concept, next to Wyevale’s Rowena garden centre in Leicester. Read more - members only

Wyevale is to close Crowland garden centre Nr Peterborough at the end of April if no buyer has been found, according to local news reports. Read more - members only