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Morrisons supermarkets buys ornamental plants nursery
Morrisons has bought outdoor plants supplier Lansen Nursery, with the aim to offer more locally-sourced and homegrown British horticulture at cheaper prices. Source: Garden1
Smart Garden donates £50,000 to Greenfingers
Smart Garden has raised £50,000 for the children’s hospice garden charity. Source: Garden1
Monty Don signs up for two more years on BBC Gardeners' World
Don is to continue on the BBC flagship gardening show until 2022. Source: Garden1
Twenty ways to make your garden centre Christmas Covid-19 safe
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Building interruptions hit Travis Perkins while Wickes sees post-coronavirus recovery
Travis Perkins group sales declined £703m to £2.78m in the first half of 2020, down 20% on the same period in 2019. Source: Garden1
Bounce-back plans launched for consumer and retail industry
A ‘bounce-back’ plan of trade measures for the consumer and retail industry has been announced today to help support businesses impacted by coronavirus. Source: Garden1
Garden centres "turned back to front" for Christmas
Castle Gardens owner and Garden Centres Association chairman Mike Burks he will transform he will transform the usual Christmas experience to ensure social distancing and customer confidence during the coronavirus crisis. Source: Garden1
Squire's Garden Centres opens food hall
Squire’s Wokingham has opened a food hall on the site of a former clothing concession at its Heathlands centre. Source: Garden1
Spirit of Four Oaks 2020 best new product awards announced
ICL, Southern Trident and Leon Ultralight Boots are the big winners at the Spirit of Four Oaks virtual showcase of new products awards. Source: Garden1
Blue Diamond garden centres plans wine shop
Blue Diamond has submitted plans to Stroud District Council to build a a wine and farm shop at by Nailsworth Garden Centre. Source: Garden1
Berwick upon Tweed Garden Centre sees improved turnover and takes CBILs loan
Turnover was £7.2m (£6.1m in the previous year) at the three-centre group with profit after tax up to £578,000 from £303,000 in the year to 30 November 2019. Source: Garden1
Harrowden Turf and Christmas Hill Farm Rainbow Combine raises £1,000 for the NHS
In May, Harrowden Turf’s combine contractor Christmas Hill Farm wanted to acknowledge the work that the NHS is doing to protect and save our lives. Source: Garden1
Radio Four's You and Yours reports on Horticulture Week readership boom
You and Yours on 7 September broadcast an interview with Horticulture Week editor Matthew Appleby and New Leaf Plants’ Mollie Higginson about the uplift seen in visitors to hortweek.com during the coronavirus lockdown. Source: Garden1
Boyd Douglas-Davies urges garden centres to 'cut suppliers some slack' as he puts in socially distanced Christmas early
Give suppliers a break, install Christmas now, buy British plants to beat border delays (which won’t now happen until July at the earliest) were among the insights provided by the HTA president in his latest Horticulture Week interview. Source: Garden1
Gardening category up 26% in August
Barclaycard has found a further uplift in gardening sales this August. Source: Garden1
British Garden Centres buys ex-Wyevale Thatcham Garden Centre
British Garden Centres (BGC) has bought the ex-Wyevale centre at Thatcham, Berkshire, taking the group to 58 centres. Source: Garden1
Movers to 13 September UPDATED
Movers this week include from Modiform, Flavourfresh, Greener Gardening Company, HTA, AHDB, Gardens Trust and Koppert. Source: Garden1
British Garden Centres plans to develop Burford House and Gardens as a visitor attraction
British Garden Centres developed the Worcestershire centre’s retail and restaurant between Tenbury Wells and Ludlow, earlier in 2020 and now plans to make the gardens a visitor attraction again. Source: Garden1
