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Loved-up couples across Britain will be reaching for their baubles after an expert claimed having a real Christmas tree in the bedroom can spice up your sex life. Source: Garden1

As of 1 January 2022, Go Green B.V. and Retail Solutions B.V. will merge and continue operating as Green Solutions B.V. Source: Garden1

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Hayes Garden World may have found the solution to sleep problems – moving your Christmas tree to the bedroom. Source: Garden1

Cherry Lane’s turnover was 0.87% up in the year to 28 February 2021 according to new Companies House figures. Source: Garden1

Work is underway at Root One Garden Centre in Wallingford, Oxfordshire to improve its customer experience. Source: Garden1

The British Home Enhancement Trade Association (BHETA) has held a webinar on the implications and preparations required ahead of the forthcoming plastic packaging tax legislation which comes into force in April 2022 Source: Garden1

Evergreen Garden Care has launched the Evergreen Academy to help garden centre employees grow their knowledge around all things Garden Care, including Compost, Lawn care, Plant Care, Weed Control, Plant Protection, Sustainability and Perfect Store. Source: Garden1

Christmas tree sales have started early where the weather has allowed. Source: Garden1

The online retailer found flooded flower beds to polluted plants could affect gardens such as RBG Kew and RBG Edinburgh, Koishikawa Korakuen in Tokyo, Monet’s garden in Paris and Nong Nooch in Thailand. Source: Garden1

Artificial Christmas trees filled nine of the top 10 turnover items sold at garden centres, according to electronic point of sale (EPOS) data to 26 November Source: Garden1

Garden goods slipped in the November top garden centre sales table compared to 2020, but plants held their places at places 8-10 as Christmas took over at the summit, indicating that some of the heat has gone out of gardening since more people returned to work this autumn. Source: Garden1

Poinsettia growers are hoping to sell out early. Source: Garden1

Hillier retail and wholesale director Chris Francis reports on Hillier’s record-breaking 2021 and looks ahead to 2022. Source: Garden1

The Food Hall at Squire’s Wokingham has expanded. Source: Garden1

The 58 British Garden Centres will have 26,000 cut Nordmann fire trees, grown in the British Isles, for sale this year. Source: Garden1

STIHL has learned that the gloves shown below are in doubt to meet the legal limits for polycyclic-aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). Source: Garden1

A shed online retailer is offering well-paid jobs to inspect garden centres. Source: Garden1

After coronavirus pandemic shut garden centres on March 23 2020, campaigners including Alan Titchmarsh got to work to have them reopened. Source: Garden1

The John MacLeod Annual Lecture guest speaker, Cranfield University’s Dr Ian Holman, spoke at RHS Garden Wisley, on The Challenge of Water & Gardens. Source: Garden1