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Retailers will lose out after the Autumn Spending Review through increased apprenticeship levy and business rates costs. Source: Garden1

Retailers will lose out after the Autumn Spending Review through increased apprenticeship levy and business rates costs. Source: Garden1

The Westland Lawn Academy has added extra spaces to its training sessions for garden centre staff. Source: Garden1

New Covent Garden Flower Market has announced that it is to exhibit at RHS Chelsea Flower Show for the first time in the show’s history. Source: Garden1

Gardman, Scotts, Hozelock, Taylors Bulbs, Maxicrop, Agralan, Neudorff and Bayer are backing a garden centre roadshow. Source: Garden1

Matt James’ RHS How to Plant a Garden “proves that a good planting scheme can transform your garden from the ordinary to the truly inspirational”. Source: Garden1

Former Scotts Miracle Gro marketing director Paula Parker has outlined her ideas for bringing her expertise to the wider industry. Source: Garden1

Suffolk seedsman Mr Fothergill’s marked leading garden writer Peter Seabrook’s 80th birthday in early November with the gift of a painting of Verbena Seabrook’s Lavender by botanical artist Isobel Bartholomew. Source: Garden1

Knights Garden Centre at Nags Hall is expanding and taking on some of the departments, including aquatics, of nearby Knights Ivy Mill, in Godstone, Surrey, which is closing. Source: Garden1

The site of Woolmans Garden Centre in Shirley in the West Midlands is up for sale for £2 million. Source: Garden1

The regional results for the Garden Centre Association’s Christmas Competition have been announced. Source: Garden1

B&Q UK and Ireland sales were up 1.2 per cent, and by 2.4 per cent like-for-like, to £931m, with sales of outdoor seasonal and building products up 6.3 per cent in the quarter to 31 October. Source: Garden1

The Suffolk nursery, which entered administration last week, will sell off stock on Tuesday 24 November. Source: Garden1

Arena Ice has installed an LED rope light system under the ice, positioned to spell out the letters V and H spanning the size of the rink. Source: Garden1

Garden bird food brand, Peckish, is thanking 100 garden centres for their involvement in the Go Wild With Peckish campaign. Source: Garden1

Over-50s women’s retailer Bonmarché, which has concessions in garden centres, saw trading struggle in November following a reasonable start to the year. Source: Garden1

Spring 2016 pre-orders of Bord na Móna Growise, the new single brand of peat-based to peat-free growing media and soil improvers launched at Glee, have now put the company 35 per cent ahead of sales target for the coming season. Source: Garden1

Wyevale Garden Centre Cardiff, originally known as Uskley Nursery when it was owned by Jean Hughes, has re-opened two years after burning down. Source: Garden1

Britain’s cheapest real Christmas tree is for sale at JTF for just £9.99. Source: Garden1

Garden giftware company Fallen Fruits has unveiled its newest collection of furniture and garden accessories, ‘The Lucton Range’. Source: Garden1