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Subscribers can read the exclusive and unrivalled eleventh edition of the award-winning Horticulture Week’s analysis of the garden retail market in the new print edition, out now. Source: Garden1

In the year to 31 March 2021, greenhouse manufacturer Alitex saw a year of extremes because of the pandemic, with demand outstripping supply and supply issues have become more of a challenge in 2021. Source: Garden1

There are 66 Southern Trident new launches for 2022, to add to the.66 product range. Source: Garden1

This year’s 11th annual Horticulture Week top garden centres data and analysis shows figures running through coronavirus crisis lockdown, which closed garden retail from 23 March to mid/late May 2020. Source: Garden1

The new tool uses Augmented Reality technology and allows homeowners to see Marshalls paving, walling and edging products in 3D and ‘place’ them in their own outdoor spaces, experimenting with colours, size and materials. Source: Garden1

British Garden Centres has won permission to demolish and rebuild a Cheshire outlet. Source: Garden1

Pat Coutts, event director of the Four Oaks Trade Show, died peacefully at her home on Monday 30 August, aged 76. Source: Garden1

Garden writer and regular Four Oaks speaker Peter Seabrook has paid tribute to Pat Coutts, who died aged 76 on August 30. Source: Garden1

Following successful large-scale trials, Veolia has demonstrated a new way of treating the 25% of green waste that ends up being sent for disposal or re-composting. Source: Garden1

New GCA figures for July 2021 show, compared to July 2020, increases in 10 of the 13 recorded categories. Source: Garden1

Fiskars stand (8C60-D61) at this year’s Glee (14-16 September,) will reveal a ‘Plant Seeds, Help Bees’ campaign, a continued collaboration with the RHS and several new products. Source: Garden1

Glee venue the NEC Birmingham has imposed Covid rules upon attendees this 14 – 16 September. Source: Garden1

August was 17% up in the plantarea, meaning 2021 is still well ahead of the last normal year in garden retail, 2019. Source: Garden1

Franchi Seeds of Italy has made a late booking for a 2x3m stand at Glee (8D65). Source: Garden1

The Government is to consult on banning a range of polluting plastics this autumn with single-use plastic plates and cutlery among items under review and the HTA has held an event offering guidance. Source: Garden1

Kent-based three garden centre group Millbrook increased profits in an “extremely difficult year” to 31 January 2021. Source: Garden1

UK garden centre group Blue Diamond has announced a partnership with customer interaction management specialists Critizr to drive an improved customer experience across its garden centres. Source: Garden1

Close to 90% of householders engage in some forms of gardening in their outdoor spaces, with 75% of households gardening at least monthly through the season, according to the Crop Protection Association (CPA). Source: Garden1

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