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Southern Trident has appointed Steve Harper as CEO. Source: Garden1

High costs of phytosanitary certificates required for individual household orders could disadvantage customers from Northern Ireland. Source: Garden1

Travis Perkins’ Q3 figures for 2020 show Wickes sales grew by 17%. Source: Garden1

Squire’s Garden Centres has highlighted its best six indoor plants. Source: Garden1

David Austin Roses has told wholesale customers that it plans to limit their numbers in a letter sent this week. Source: Garden1

The HTA has written to Welsh economy minister Ken Skates, the Welsh Government’s Economy Minister, expressing its “great disappointment at the decision to classify them as ‘non-essential retail’”, requiring them to close from 23 October for two weeks. Source: Garden1

The nursery supplies UK multiple retailers and saw a “challenging” market with costs rising though “results broadly matched our expectations as we continue to restructure our business”. Source: Garden1

Kent-based Coolings increased turnover by 16% in the year to 31 December 2019. Source: Garden1

Dobbies, has launched its first small format store – Little Dobbies, in Edinburgh city centre. Source: Garden1

The Garden Centre Association (GCA) is also calling-off its inspections for the first time in 50 years Source: Garden1

The Garden Industry Manufacturers Association (GIMA) has joined 71 other trade associations to urge the Government to agree a Brexit deal to ensure the UK remains a player in international trade. Source: Garden1

Irish garden centres are unable to open under level 5 lockdown for six weeks from Thursday 22 October. Source: Garden1

David Austin Roses are to be sold in garden centres through a new ‘partnership programme’. Source: Garden1

David Austin Roses are to be sold in selected garden centres through a new ‘partnership programme’. Source: Garden1

Alton Garden Centre director Andy Bunker has highlighted three plants where he believes will not sell because they are too expensive. Source: Garden1

As lockdown restrictions continue across the UK, an online garden centre has seen record sales on four plants all known to have medicinal properties. Source: Garden1

Neville Stein, Horticulture Week’s expert business writer, featured in the leading trade magazine 25 years ago when he was starting his career as a consultant. Source: Garden1

Despite experiencing a year of unprecedented challenges, rose breeder David Austin Roses has been buoyed by a significant rise in its online sales. Source: Garden1

Growing Media Ireland has hit back at “the threat arising from the unprecedented legal and planning problems facing the industry” as a shortage of peat is set to hit the UK market. Source: Garden1

After The Times said supermarkets should stop selling plants because they cannot look after them, leading grower David Ball defended supermarkets’ importance is to UK horticulture. Source: Garden1