Top garden centre staff celebrate awards
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 - open to all
Top garden centre staff celebrate awards
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 - open to all
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 - members only
It’s Gold all round for The Apple Tree
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 - open to all
Phil Welsh leads new manufacturing team at William Sinclair
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 - open to all
New area chairmen announced for the GCA
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 - open to all
Westland Rising Stars soar at first Masterclass
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 - open to all
HTA announce Vice President-elect
Garden retailer Adam Wigglesworth from Aylett Nurseries in Hertfordshire has been appointed Vice President-elect of the HTA. Read more - open to all
Hillier appoint new garden centre director
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 - open to all
Forest appoints new marketing manager
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 - open to all
Pupils learn about managing land sensitively with Durstons
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 - open to all
Gardeners meet TV gardening expert at fundraiser
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 - open to all
George Hillier Launches new canopy at Monkton Elm
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 - open to all
GIMA announces new council
The Garden Industry Manufacturers’ Association’s AGM took place on 13th March and was attending by over 60 members. During the proceedings new appointments were announced. Read more - open to all
Maryanne Stokes and the iTower join forces
Maryanne Stokes Limited (MSL) is working in partnership with Visible Impact Ltd to promote and sell the radical new itower POS system to the garden centres. Read more - open to all
Thomas Richard Hayes, owner of one of the Lake District's best known businesses Hayes Garden World, has been jailed for 18 months for conspiring to pervert the course of justice. See more… Read more - members only
Hillier at 150: The remarkable history of a horticultural legend
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 - open to all
Tushingham takes top sales job at Smart Solar
Phil Tushingham has joined Smart Solar as Sales Director with overall responsibility for the company’s revenues in the UK and Europe. Read more - open to all
Investing in people
Rolawn – Europe’s largest turf grower - have recruited new key personnel to meet the next stage of the company’s development. Read more - open to all
Mr Fothergill's customers salute Chelsea Pensioners' Victoria Cross
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 - open to all
Writtle College student wins regional final of Young Horticulturist of the Year competition
A Writtle College student has won the regional final of the Young Horticulturist of the Year competition. Read more - open to all
First Minister opens Stagecraft’s new factory
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 - open to all
Jean Clark
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 - open to all
Garden Re-Leaf Day opens the season at 230 garden centres nationwide
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 - open to all
James Wong Named RHS Ambassador
TV scientist to help raise the profile of horticultural science and botany Read more - open to all
British horticulture needs to encourage the young
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 - open to all
Tates of Sussex raise £350 on National Garden Re-Leaf Day
Tates of Sussex helped raise moeny for Greenfingers on National Garden Re-Leaf Day on Friday 14th March. Read more - open to all
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 - members only
Edinburgh student wins Young Scottish Horticulturalist of the Year
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 - open to all
Danny Adamson steps down as MD of William Sinclair Retail Division
As a result of an internal restructure Danny Adamson will step down from today as Managing Director of the Retail Division for William Sinclair. Danny has been with William Sinclair for the past six years and over that time has made a tremendous contribution to the business. Read more - open to all
Scotland’s youngest head gardener says success is down to School of Heritage Gardening
Meet Tim Keyworth, head gardener at Leith Hall in Aberdeenshire, at 26 he’s one of the youngest gardeners to take charge of a heritage garden in Scotland, if not the UK. Read more - open to all