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Online shop Primrose Awnings has been selected to join the Google Certified Shops programme. Source: Garden1

Online shop Primrose Awnings has been selected to join the Google Certified Shops programme. Source: Garden1

A survey of 29 Association of Professional Landscapers members has found there is a trend in “perceiving the garden as an outdoor ‘room’ to socialise, cook and relax”. Source: Garden1

A lack of proper rain for a month in some areas has not dampened plant sales, with many garden centres 10 per cent up in July and showing similar growth in August. Source: Garden1

Staff at Pennell’s Lincoln Garden Centre have said goodbye to their colleague Trevor Smith, who is retiring after “a fantastic 53 years with Pennells”. Source: Garden1

Watering and garden tools company Gardena has found shopping for plants and growing your own are favoured gardening activities. Source: Garden1

A report from the New Zealand Environment Protection Agency has concluded glyphosate is “unlikely to be carcinogenic to humans”. Source: Garden1

Capel Manor College principal Steve Dowbiggin will retire in August 2017 after 33 years in the role, making him the longest-serving principal of a further-education college in the UK. Source: Garden1

Separation of academic and technical education could damage horticulture learning. Source: Garden1

Premier Decorations is promoting its ranges with the world pizza champion at Glee (Birmingham NEC 12-14 September). Source: Garden1

Total sales excluding fuel were 8.2 per cent higher than last year at Waitrose in the week to 27 August. Source: Garden1

The recent Langeso festival in Denmark has helped growers see the full picture of the post-Brexit market, according to Snowbird Industries owner Adrian Morgan. Source: Garden1

Building a customer profile then targeting where they live is the way to use loyalty schemes, according to Wyevale Garden Centres’ customer loyalty card consultant, as the schemes come under question after Homebase decided to quit the Nectar reward scheme by the end of 2016. Source: Garden1

Suttons Seeds has warned against discounting while calling for “partial returns” to become the norm in the market. Source: Garden1

The RHS has appointed a marketing agency to try and make the charity appeal to young people. Source: Garden1

The RHS has appointed a marketing agency to try and make the charity appeal to young people. Source: Garden1

Wildlife World has opened a six metre display in conjunction with the Webbs of Wychbold garden centre near Birmingham as part of the store’s new Wildlife Garden department. Source: Garden1

HTA Consumer garden Design Trends latest figures show garden centre sales were up four per cent calendar year to date in comparison with the same time (Jan-June) in 2015 but were down in April. Source: Garden1

Spoga+gafa trade show says a mindfulness trend is hitting horticulture, called ‘attentive gardening’, which focuses on “finding one’s way to oneself via the work in the flora and fauna”. Source: Garden1

Hare Hatch Sheeplands garden centre near Reading will hold a public exhibition on plans for the business amid a long-running planning dispute with Wokingham Borough Council. Source: Garden1