TGCG has drawn from Dixons, Homebase, Waitrose and Britvic to expand its trading division and bring the best of the retail industry to the gardening world. See more… Read more

During a break from their one-to-one business creating meetings with British suppliers, a group of garden product buyers from Finland, Slovenia, Spain and The Netherlands are pictured with some of the suppliers and members of the Gardenex export federation team. Read more

Staff at Webbs, the award-winning family-owned garden centre business, celebrated another year of triumph with their own awards ceremony in Worcestershire. Read more

Notcutts is to hold the official reopening of the garden centre at Tunbridge Wells next week. At the same time it has emerged that former FD Andrew Staff has been confirmed as the new COO. See more... Read more

The recently refurbished Apple Tree Restaurant and the Apple Tree Farm Shop at Brimsmore Gardens in Yeovil have won Gold awards in the Taste of the West Hospitality & Retail Awards 2014. Read more

With its new £15m world class growing media production facility at Ellesmere Port due to open later this year, William Sinclair Horticulture has appointed Phil Welsh as Manufacturing Director. Read more

The Garden Centre Association (GCA) has this month (March, 2014) announced its new area chairmen who will represent member garden centres in each region. Read more

The Rising Stars 2014 Programme has got off to a great start with the first Masterclass held at Westland Horticulture’s Merchandising Lab in Peterborough. Read more

Garden retailer Adam Wigglesworth from Aylett Nurseries in Hertfordshire has been appointed Vice President-elect of the HTA. Read more

Hillier Nurseries & Garden Centres have appointed Chris Francis as garden centre director, heading up the Hillier Garden Centre division of the company. Chris Francis joined the company on 12 March 2014. Read more

Forest Garden, the UK’s leading manufacturer of decorative and core garden timber ranges, has recently welcomed Andrew Bendall as the company’s new marketing manager. Read more

Pupils from Westonzoyland Village Primary School in the heart of Somerset paid a visit last week to Durston Garden Products to learn all about the importance of managing land sensitively. Read more

Gardeners young and old from Kent turned out on March 16, 2014 to get horticultural tips from television’s greenfingered gardening expert David Domoney at a garden centre in the county. Read more

George Hillier from Hillier Nurseries and Garden Centres declared Monkton Elm Garden & Pet Centre’s new canopy area officially open with a ribbon cutting. Read more

The Garden Industry Manufacturers’ Association’s AGM took place on 13^th March and was attending by over 60 members. During the proceedings new appointments were announced. Read more

Gardenforum understands that 3 more buyers are set to leave The Garden Centre Group. See more… Read more

Last Thursday, 27^th March Premier Decorations’ Managing Director, John Athwal raised over £11,500 by taking part in the Action for Children CEO Sleep-Out in Paternoster Square in the City of London. Read more

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Hillier Nurseries & Garden Centres, Jean Hillier (wife of Hillier Chairman, Robert Hillier OBE) has written the remarkable story of Hillier, from its foundation in Winchester in 1864 to the present day. Read more

Phil Tushingham has joined Smart Solar as Sales Director with overall responsibility for the company’s revenues in the UK and Europe. Read more

Rolawn – Europe’s largest turf grower - have recruited new key personnel to meet the next stage of the company’s development. Read more

Mr Fothergill's campaign to raise funds for the work of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in the centenary year of the outbreak of the First World War (2014) has undoubtedly struck a chord both with its retail stockists and their customers, the Suffolk seedsman reports. Read more

A Writtle College student has won the regional final of the Young Horticulturist of the Year competition. Read more

The Rt. Hon. Carwyn Jones AM, First Minister of Wales, will signal the end of a turbulent year for Mid-Wales business Stagecraft when he opens their new factory in Newtown on Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 12 months to the day that Stagecraft’s former factory burnt to the ground. Read more

Robin Clark has written to say, 'It is with great sadness that I have to tell you that my mother, Mrs Jean Clark, died suddenly last Wednesday 12th March. She was co-founder with my late father David of  Findlay Clark Limited in Milngavie.' Read more

More than 230 garden centres nationwide attracted thousands of customers to a plethora of special events and fund-raisers on Friday 14th March and across the weekend, as part of Garden Re-Leaf Day. Read more

TV scientist to help raise the profile of horticultural science and botany Read more

A West Sussex nursery that has recently won two prestigious awards including being declared Ornamental Grower of The Year says it owes its success in part to nurturing industry talent. Read more

Tates of Sussex helped raise moeny for Greenfingers on National Garden Re-Leaf Day on Friday 14^th March. Read more

The RHS has brought in Manuel Mascarenhas to develop the RHS Garden Holidays brand and to lead the corporate partnerships team. See more... Read more

Lachlan Rae, a horticulture student at Scotland’s Rural College, has won the Scottish final of the Institute of Horticulture’s Young Horticulturalist of the Year. Read more