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Cafe sales are sustaining garden centres as plants have generally struggled to take off during a cold and wet start to the year. Source: Garden1

Slow start to the season compounded by early Easter date for growers and retailers. Source: Garden1

Garden Re-Leaf Day on 18 March is starting early with 24-hour garden centre plantathons leading into the event as big Greenfingers money-raisers this year. Source: Garden1

Seasonal gardening shows appear to be working with TV audiences. Source: Garden1

This April, IKEA is introducing an indoor gardening series that lets you grow your own lettuce and herbs in water. Source: Garden1

German pot manufacturer Scheurich has looked to the 1960s for inspiration for new ranges. Source: Garden1

British Garden Centres has bought East Durham Garden Centre (formerly Plants R Ross) in Easington, Co. Durham, to take the group to double figures. Source: Garden1

Planners have backed a retail development including a garden centre, proposed for Ashchurch near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire. Source: Garden1

Gardenex has sold all its stand space at the US National Hardware Show in the British pavilion 2016. Source: Garden1

Plant retailers visited two nurseries in Hereford last week for their joint open days to see their new product developments for the coming year. Source: Garden1

Fundraiser and season starter Garden Re-Leaf will be at garden centres on March 17 and founder and Hillview Group chief executive officer Boyd Douglas Davies will be planting for 24 hours. Source: Garden1

Skinny Jean Gardeners, Lee and Dale Connelly are to launch a pop-up shop in Culver Square in Colchester this spring. Source: Garden1

The first warm weekend of the year saw garden centre plantareas start to stir, but it is early days yet, say owners. Source: Garden1

New owners, Paul Findlay, his father James and brother William of Eco Warrior Resorts, want to demolish the existing garden centre buildings and replace them with a two storey ‘log cabin’. Source: Garden1

Public Health Wales has launched an investigation into illness it has linked to a garden centre. Source: Garden1

The RHS Chatsworth show in 2017 is to house retail nurseries in a Joseph Paxton-style plant pavilion. Source: Garden1

Homebase results for the eight weeks to 27 February’s financial year end show improved results ahead of the sale to Wesfarmers. Source: Garden1

A variety of physical activity, from gardening to dancing, can halve the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, new research suggests. Source: Garden1

Planning officers at Tewkesbury Borough Council have recommended that councillors on the authority’s planning committee turn down the development planned for off the A46 near Junction 9 of the M5 were first put forward in 2013. Source: Garden1

Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh has raised in Parliament B&Q cutting overall pay despite the national living wage coming in on 1 April. Source: Garden1