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Work is underway to enhance the offering at Rotherham’s Wentworth Garden Centre with a 150-seat satellite restaurant being constructed to add to the existing 300-seat restaurant. Source: Garden1

Following a month of improved sales in June, retailers failed to maintain the positive momentum in July, with online sales growth slowing to just +4.4% Year-on-Year (YoY). Source: Garden1

Following a month of improved sales in June, retailers failed to maintain the positive momentum in July, with online sales growth slowing to just +4.4% Year-on-Year (YoY). Source: Garden1

The Government is to automatically enrol UK businesses in a customs system in preparation for a no-deal Brexit. Source: Garden1

ITV’s Tonight Show is to investigate if the £6 billion garden centre industry is “as green as people believe”. Source: Garden1

Westland’s New Horizon peat-free range saw its retail sales more than double in 2019 and has almost doubled peat-free use in the last decade. Source: Garden1

ITV’s current affairs programme Tonight has broadcast an examination of garden centre peat sales ahead of the looming 2020 Defra deadline for ending peat sales to amateur gardeners. Source: Garden1

Garden centres could sell more British-grown Christmas trees this year because of biosecurity and Brexit. Source: Garden1

Source: Garden1

Bord na Móna has said it will launch its peat-free Happy Compost range at the Glee retail exhibition in September, featuring six new products and bags with 30% recycled plastic. Source: Garden1

British Garden Centres is to purchase Wyevale Garden Centre Group’s Bourneville centre while Swindon Hay Lane centre is being taken over by its landlord. Source: Garden1

British Garden Centres is to purchase Wyevale Garden Centre Group’s Bournville centre while Swindon Hay Lane centre is being taken over by its landlord. Source: Garden1

Rosie Levick, owner of Nottinghamshire-based Garden’s Greengrocers and Zero Waste Store, part of the Sunrise Plant Company , has created a plastic-free business. Source: Garden1

A new report is warning that Christmas trees imported from mainland Europe could be providing a pathway for new pests and diseases to enter the UK. Source: Garden1

Increasing public demand for plastic-free products is supporting the growth of brushware manufacturer, Charles Bentley & Son. Source: Garden1

Burgon and Ball, the UK-based manufacturer and supplier of premium gardening, agricultural and giftware products, has appointed former Scotts Miracle-Gro UK and Ireland sales director Rainer Schubert as managing director. Source: Garden1

Oxfordshire garden centre and nursery Nicholsons’ has become an RHS approved Qualifications Centre. Source: Garden1

Cumbrian-based garden centre Hayes Garden World has launched a campaign to promote meat-free BBQing to its customers this summer. Source: Garden1

The Garden Centre Association (GCA) is encouraging its members to do what they can to help reduce the amount of plastic going to landfill. Source: Garden1

Two garden centres have worked with Herefordshire and Worcestershire authorities to get non-black PP plastic pots and trays accepted in household and kerbside recycling bins. Source: Garden1