JUB Holland wins Sustainability award for The Vibrant Verge

JUB Holland has won the Sustainable Product of the Year – Soft Landscaping Award at the 2025 Pro Landscaper Sustainability & Biodiversity Awards for The Vibrant Verge, a biodiversity-boosting planting concept transforming public spaces. Read more - open to all

Jos Smit & Job van Eeden

B&M issues a significant profit warning

B&M has issued a significant profit warning following disappointing UK sales and rising operational costs. The discount retailer's shares tumbled 12% following the announcement. Read more - members only

Blue Diamond to preview Christmas

Blue Diamond Garden Centres have announced a series of exclusive Christmas preview evenings to kick off the 2025 festive season. Read more - open to all

Scotland's Trade Fair Spring set to wow buyers

Scotland’s Trade Fair returns to Glasgow’s SEC from 18–20 January 2026, bringing together 450 exhibitors and thousands of buyers to showcase the latest in gifts, homewares, and fine food. Read more - open to all

Blue Diamond triumphs at Excellence in Housewares Awards

Blue Diamond Garden Centres has secured two major accolades at the prestigious Excellence in Housewares Awards 2025, held at The Royal Lancaster, London. Read more - members only

Ali Buchan and Claire Jenner Blue Diamond Category Managers Kitchen and Housewares

GCA Launches New Food Safety Level 3 Course on GROW Platform

The Garden Centre Association has launched a new Food Safety Level 3 course on its GROW e-learning platform, providing in-depth training for supervisors and managers responsible for food safety in garden centres. Read more - open to all

GCA CEO, Peter Burks celebrating the launch of the latest Garden Retail Online Workshops

Clematis breeder Raymond Evison to give a public lecture

Multi award-winning clematis expert Raymond Evison to give this year’s Max Walters Memorial Lecture in Cambridge for plant enthusiasts Read more - open to all

GARDENA’s Top of the Plots winners revealed

GARDENA and the National Allotment Society have crowned the 2025 Top of the Plots winners, celebrating inspiring gardens, allotments and community spaces that showcase the creativity, joy and wellbeing of grow-your-own culture. Read more - open to all

Top of the Plots winner - Steve Mills

Dobbies announces CFO change

Dobbies Garden Centres announces that its CFO, Jonathan Wass, will step down from his role on 12 November 2025 and names his replacement. Read more - open to all

Pete Templeton, CFO Dobbies Garden Centres

Open Days Schoneveld Breeding & TradeFair Aalsmeer

During weeks 43–45, breeder Schoneveld Breeding will showcase the very best of their flowering pot plant series. You are warmly invited to visit the PlantXperience. Read more - open to all

GCA adds new online food safety course

The Garden Centre Association (GCA) has launched its 98th online course, Food Safety Level 3, on its award-winning GROW e-learning platform. Read more - open to all

GCA Chief Executive, Peter Burks at tea!

From disaster to rapid growth led by a new management team

20 years ago, brothers Nic and George Snell set up Certainly Wood, a firewood company, which has been instrumental in driving a positive change in the firewood industry. Read more - open to all

Sandra Taylor (Managing Director) and Iain Burgess (Commercial Director)

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