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Keep Sunday Special campaigners plan a judicial review and march on Parliament on Sunday trading extensions. Source: Garden1

Garden centres are raising cash for charities in a variety of ways. Source: Garden1

Crowders Nurseries owner Robert Crowder says his online garden centre can be bigger than his bricks and mortar centre, sold to Wyevale Garden Centres last month. Source: Garden1

GIMA is to host a Wyevale Gardens Centres buyer connect event on 11 May at Holiday inn, Brentford, london where suppleirs can meet buyers at pre-arranged meetings. Source: Garden1

Retailers are demanding plant passports on their deliveries following the xylella scare on the Continent, says Bransford Webbs Plant Company managing director Geoff Caesar. Source: Garden1

Think Tank the Resolution Foundation has assessed the potential impact of the National Living Wage. Source: Garden1

Online garden centre company Primrose has been identified as one of London Stock Exchange’s 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain. Source: Garden1

Indigo Garden Spray Dye, a granule which when mixed into a spray solution and makes garden spray visible, was launched at the Garden Press Event held in London last week. Source: Garden1

The creation of a new, automated production line for 2016 has increased capacity and reduced costs enabling high volume production runs for larger customers and the ability to bring out new collections of patterns through the year, and to produce bespoke patterns. Source: Garden1

Squire’s Garden Centres hosted a Supplier Plant Show February at Squire’s in West Horsley, Surrey with 34 suppliers showcasing their latest plants to the Squire’s team. Source: Garden1

The European Ombudsman’s inquiry into the approval of pesticides by the European Commission highlights concerns with the Commission’s practice (known as the confirmatory data procedure) of approving the safe use of an active substance before it gets all of the data necessary to support that decision, says the investigator into complaints about maladministration in EU institutions, agencies and bodies. Source: Garden1

Forest Garden has awarded several members of staff with a Long Service Award ceremony medal. Source: Garden1

York Gate Garden near Leeds will re-launch this spring following a programme of restoration and development. Source: Garden1

Staff at Webbs, the family-owned garden centre business, celebrated another year of triumph with their own awards ceremony in Worcestershire. Source: Garden1

Soil products produced by Carbon Gold, the biochar company, have been found to suppress ash dieback in a recent study featured on the BBC’s Countryfile on 21 February. Source: Garden1

STIHL is on the search for Great Britain’s ‘Local Community Heroes’ to recognise and reward those people that have given back to their neighbourhood in the form of landscaping, gardening, clearing or cultivating. Source: Garden1

For the fourth year running, Stewart Garden is preparing to distribute grow your own gardening kits to over 100 primary schools across the county as part of the Stewart Garden Schools Campaign 2016. Source: Garden1

There will be 28 of the 29 Brantano concessions within garden centres carrying on trading after private equity firm Alteri bought the shoe company back after putting it into administration. Source: Garden1

Sunday retail opening hours for shops in England and Wales need to be relaxed, say 200 MPs and council leaders. Source: Garden1

Garden centre group Blue Diamond has appointed Patricia Alford-Burnett as a non-executive director. Source: Garden1