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Webbs Garden Centres in Worcestershire has increased turnover from £16.2m to £16.7m in the year to 31 December 2017. Source: Garden1

Perrywood Garden Centre in Tiptree, Essex is inviting customers to visit its coffee shop every day to meet others at its social table. Source: Garden1

Stewarts Garden Centres has promoted Katherine Hunt from bedding supervisor to plant buyer for its three centres. Source: Garden1

United Utilities (UU) says a temporary ban on seven million people in the rainiest area of England – the north-west – from 5 August will “safeguard essential supplies”. Source: Garden1

Otter Garden Centres has added to existing green credentials with the installation of car charging points at the company’s Ottery St Mary, Plymouth, Wincanton and Lymington branches. Source: Garden1

The new hose is designed to work in low water pressure areas. Source: Garden1

Wentworth Garden Centre in South Yorkshire is set to expand its operation further, having been given the planning permission to extend its Orangery Restaurant and launch a deli food hall and second catering outlet. Source: Garden1

The 900 bids for Wyevale Garden Centres have now been assessed and those in the running are in the process of being told if they have made it into stage two. Source: Garden1

A compact balcony hook shelf, children’s planters, ergonomic multi-tool and a hydroponic aquarium/planter were among the ingenious ideas students came up with in a national competition to design a modern gardening product. Source: Garden1

A team of 30 Greenfingers ambassadors met at the HTA National Plant Show in June to hear for the first time in the charity’s 18-year history, the fundraising total exceeded £500,000 in 2017, the most money ever raised in a year. Source: Garden1

Neudorff has won the Garden Industry Manufacturers’ Association sword of excellence and best new product for its off-the-shelf ambient nematodes, while GCA Supplier of the Year winner was Woodlodge. Source: Garden1

Up to 900 bids have been received for Wyevale Garden Centres, with several garden centre groups, a scrapyard, property developers and bids from £1 to many millions believed to have been received. Source: Garden1

The UK being able to sign trade deals and being outside the jurisdiction of the EU Courts are three promises in the Brexit White Paper on the future relationship between the UK and the EU that have been generally welcomed by the horticulture industry. Source: Garden1

The Brexit white paper on the future relationship between the UK and the EU promises that the UK will be able to sign trade deals and remain outside the jurisdiction of EU courts, proposals generally welcomed by the horticulture industry. Source: Garden1

A federal judge in the US has ruled that Monsanto – which was recently bought out by German giant Bayer – will have to face hundreds of lawsuits by cancer victims and their families over the potentially carcinogenic affects of glyphosate, which is used in the company’s Roundup weedkiller. Source: Garden1

Gardena garden watering and tools has added two Ambassador Stores to its roster, with the aim of increasing brand presence and further boosting sales into garden centres in the UK market. Source: Garden1

Garden centres are looking to make extra sales ahead of the football World Cup final on 15 July. Source: Garden1

Garden centres are looking to make extra sales ahead of the football World Cup final on 15 July. Source: Garden1

As part of the ongoing improvements, three redesigns have been made and a new webshop has been launched. Source: Garden1

Growing Media Association chairman and Bord na Mona UK retail head Steve Harper says growing media prices need to rise further. Source: Garden1