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Malcolm Scott Consultants has now joined Birmingham-based property consultancy Harris Lamb to make a team of surveyors and planners. Source: Garden1

Haskins is bringing forward proposals to redevelop its Snowhill Garden Centre to provide a new modern centre in one building. Source: Garden1

Syngenta Flowers is behind the new urban flowers brand that has launched at Waitrose supermarkets. Source: Garden1

A new RHS monograph will be published on red-hot pokers this month. Source: Garden1

Rosemary Sassoon’s Fruit, Grow, Cooks and Preserve Your Own is published by Guild this month at £9.95. Source: Garden1

Seed and bulb suppliers G Plants has announced a range of new wildlife products to add to its Bee Friends with Nature range. Source: Garden1

Total divisional sales, excluding fuel, were up 4.2 per cent as the year’s first burst of warm weather tempted customers outdoors for alfresco dining and entertaining. Source: Garden1

Colin Roberts of The Gardening Club at Park View Nurseries in Crews Hill, North London, has taken over the former cash and carry premises of John Woods Nurseries in Woodbridge, Suffolk. Source: Garden1

Amberley Publishing has reissued Frank J Scott’s Classic Guide to Gardening. Source: Garden1

Waitrose has launched a potted floral range – Kado flowers – which it says is designed for those who live in urban areas. Source: Garden1

April sales were 0.9 per cent down like-for-like on last year, according to the British Retail Consortium Source: Garden1

Saturday 7 May broke records for plants sales at garden centres. Source: Garden1

Briers launched the Briers International Collection at this year’s National Hardware Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Nevada. Source: Garden1

ABF The Soldiers’ Charity has launched a new range of gardening equipment sourced from Burgon & Ball. Source: Garden1

Squire’s Garden Centres have given £1,829.08 to the charity Greenfingers from the carrier bag charge. Source: Garden1

Thames Valley Police is appealing for information after a theft at Notcutts Garden Centre, in Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire. Source: Garden1

Financial services corporation Morgan Stanley has analysed 10 areas investors should focus on after Wesfarmers bought Homebase. Source: Garden1

A campaign group which describes itself as a ‘democratic social justice organisation’, says it plans to “expose the truth to people who buy Monsanto’s products” with an ‘Expose Monsanto pack’ of fake labels to stick on real garden centre products. Source: Garden1

Wyevale Garden Centres, in partnership with Historic Royal Palaces, have won gold in the show garden category for their garden ‘Gardening Amidst Ruins: a homage to Capability Brown’. Source: Garden1

The UK high street has recorded its biggest drop in sales since the height of the recession. Source: Garden1