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Indoor planter company Boskke is launching new products to follow their influential upside down Sky Planter. Source: Garden1

A Welsh retail nursery says competition means it needs to diversify. Source: Garden1

The weekly sales figures for the Partnership, Waitrose and John Lewis for last week (to 20 August) have been published, sowing £198m turnover and a 3.4 per cent increase. Source: Garden1

Research released today by the Chartered Management Institute and XpertHR reveals that men are more likely than women to have been promoted into senior and higher paying management roles in the past year, with no progress made on reducing the 23 per cent gender pay gap. Source: Garden1

Bampton Garden Plants near Faringdon, Oxfordshire is the site for a new centre teaching RHS horticulture courses from September. Source: Garden1

JTF Wholesale Ltd are closing in on a record August sales month for gardening. Source: Garden1

JTF Wholesale Ltd is closing in on a record August sales month for gardening. Source: Garden1

Today Writtle University College has revealed its new look, new name and new website as it starts a new promotional campaign. Source: Garden1

Paradise Park garden centre in Newhaven, East Sussex have just seen their apprentice Luke Gibbs complete his Intermediate Level Apprenticeship in horticulture at Plumpton College. Source: Garden1

New research from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) suggests half (52 per cent) of small firms have been stung by unfair contract terms with suppliers, costing nearly £4 billion in the last three years. Source: Garden1

Mr Fothergill’s has pledged its support for Greenfingers, the charity dedicated to creating gardens for children’s hospices, by naming a new sweet pea after it for the 2017 season. Source: Garden1

BBC’s Big Allotment Challenge winner Rob Smith has new ranges coming out through Suttons. Source: Garden1

Glove and footwear company Briers has 170 new products to launch at Glee on 12-14 September at Birmingham NEC Source: Garden1

Be A Garden Maker, in Wigglesworth, Lamcashire, used to have brown signs directing customers to the garden centre, but they were taken down before Nikki Brown took over this summer. Source: Garden1

Former Sainsbury chief executive officer Justin King has replaced Stephen Murphy as Wyevale Garden Centres chairman with immediate effect. Source: Garden1

Thejoyofplants.co.uk’s ‘Garden Plant of the Month’ campaign will continue in 2017, shining a light on different garden plants every month. Source: Garden1

A policy think tank has called on Prime Minister Theresa May to scrap George Osborne’s living wage, which it says will cost thousands of jobs and do little to alleviate poverty. Source: Garden1

Petunia ‘Night Sky’ is the top plant at Ball Colegrave this year, according to visitors. Source: Garden1

A Leicestershire retail nursery has closed after 37 years operation. Source: Garden1

US garden retailers appear to be selling fewer ornamental plants with traces of neonicotinoids in them, according to a new ‘Gardeners Beware’ report. Source: Garden1