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Garden designer and Chelsea Gold Medal winning designer Paul Hervey-Brookes, is opening a new mixed use garden retail outlet in the Cotswolds with sculpture and artist Yann Eshkol. Source: Garden1

Dan Williams has joined Hillier to head the restaurant division of the garden centre business. Source: Garden1

Last year, the Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day walk raised more than £9,000. Source: Garden1

Poundbury Gardens, which is part of The Gardens Group, is searching for a local charity or not-for-profit organisation to donate 10 per cent of its takings to during its 10th anniversary celebrations, which take place between Tuesday 1 and Thursday 10 March. Source: Garden1

Designer Roger Saul is opening a new garden nursery and shop at his Kilver Court Designer Village in Somerset, next to the Kilver Court garden. Source: Garden1

Bolsius International has appointed Richard Wood as sales director UK & Ireland Bolsius UK. Source: Garden1

Wyevale’s Cadbury centre near Bristol could have a 15-hole pirate golf course built. Source: Garden1

The wild bird care market has shown a remarkably strong performance during 2015, registering value growth in both volume (18 per cent) and value (15 per ent) vs. 2014, according to consumer analyst GfK. Source: Garden1

Graduates of the latest Westland Lawn Academy are now ready to help address consumer concerns about how to improve their lawns. Source: Garden1

The British Home Enhancement Trade Association (BHETA)’s first Meet the Buyer day with B&Q took place on January 14 at the Hilton Hotel in Chilworth, Southampton and 12 members of the B&Q buying team attended. Source: Garden1

Squire’s Garden Centres has joined forces with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) to launch a programme to get secondary school children into gardening, and to change their perceptions about a career in horticulture – and detailed their experiences at the Garden Centre Association annual conference. Source: Garden1

Garden centre industry veteran John Ashley has marked the 50th anniversary of the Garden Centre Association with a toast lauding members’ achievements. Source: Garden1

Chris Ramsden is joining Hozelock from Suttons Seeds. Source: Garden1

With last December officially the warmest month on record, and the wettest in more than a 100 years, the success of the lawn care category in 2016 will be affected as consumers return to their gardens with a degree of uncertainty, DLF/Johnsons Lawn Seed has suggested. Source: Garden1

Following a year of research and redesign, Bransford Webbs has launched a new style label and POS for 2016. Source: Garden1

Garden Centre Fresh has held its annual trade show at Tradeparc Westland in Honselerdijk in the Netherlands and attracted more than 150 visitors from all over the UK and Ireland. Source: Garden1

Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) licensees will be out in force at this year’s Spring Fair from 7-11 February at Birmingham’s NEC. Source: Garden1

Wyevale Garden Centres has confirmed the purchase of Crowders Garden Centre, based in Horncastle, Lincolnshire. Source: Garden1

The Collection – a new range of British-designed gloves, cloggies and kneepads, and the first products to be launched under the revitalised Town & Country brand – has been shortlisted in the Best New Gardening Product category of the Garden Retail & Garden Industry Awards. Source: Garden1

Birchencliffe, Pennine and Raglan, all Wyevale Garden Centres bought in 2014/15, have announced the winners of their inaugural Garden Centre Makeover competitions, as voted by the local community. Source: Garden1