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Gardeners’ World presenter Monty Don has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Source: Garden1

Overall April sales were down -8.36% with a year to date change of -10.86%. Source: Garden1

Overall April sales were down -8.36% with a year to date change of -10.86%. Source: Garden1

The132-strong team at Highfield Garden World in Gloucestershire now includes members of three generations of the founding Greenway family. Source: Garden1

Imara, the new downy mildew resistant impatiens walleriana from Syngenta Flowers and sold at B&Q, took scientists years to develop. Source: Garden1

With an additional 18 varieties, Johnsons has expanded its organic vegetable offering for the 2019 season. Source: Garden1

Wesfarmers chief executive Rob Scott has told an investors’ day at the Australian conglomerate that the costly experience of buying Homebase in the UK for £340m, then selling it two years later for £1 after a £1bn losses means the company will be more careful in future about investments. Source: Garden1

Garden centre groups are exploring options ahead of Wyevale Garden Centre’s first sales deadline on 26 June but don’t want the opportunity to mean they aren’t focused on core business. Source: Garden1

Choice Marketing chairman and Blackbrooks Garden Centre owner Mark Winchester has urged garden retailers to be true to their core beliefs amid the potential disruption caused by Wyevale’s sale, the biggest ever in the industry. Source: Garden1

Dutch grower Gerard Stolwijk has supplied agapanthus to Hall’s Garden Centre for many years and has now developed a new variety for Hall’s with 60cm long stems and dark blue/purple flowers. Source: Garden1

Gardman’s fire and sudden spikes in demand for bedding and garden furniture have put unusual demands on supply. Source: Garden1

Stuart Jones, which has been supplying the furniture industry since 1973, has a new product range launched in partnership with the RSPB supporting the Giving Nature a Home campaign. Source: Garden1

The garden centre is close to the airport and could be affected by new third runway plans, which ministers backed this week. Source: Garden1

Squire’s managing director Martin Breddy says the main issue he has tried to tackle at the 15 garden centre group is falling footfall, as shown by lower transaction numbers. Source: Garden1

Squire’s managing director Martin Breddy has outlined how upgrading cafe bars is helping to reverse a fall in footfall at the 15 garden centre group. Source: Garden1

The garden centre in North Yorkshire will be fully re-opened, less than four months since the fire, thanks to temporary building specialist Spaciotempo. Source: Garden1

In May, UK retail sales increased by 2.8% on a like-for-like basis from May 2017, when they had decreased 0.4% from the preceding year. Source: Garden1

Plant-based menus are the new way to attract more customers to your garden centre restaurant. “Veganuary” founder Jane Land says in garden centres people are “surrounded by plants so are obviously halfway there”. Source: Garden1

Otter Nurseries in Torquay, Devon has plans to almost double in size, creating 70 new jobs. Source: Garden1

Wyevale Garden Centres, the largest garden centre group in the UK with 145 centres nationwide, reported a record-breaking month in May. Source: Garden1