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Interflora’s recent Instagram poll found only 12% of men said they’d ever been given flowers. Source: Garden1

Home insurance experts at money.co.uk have investigated if outdoor leisure product prices on Amazon have increased because of extra demand and shortage of supply. Source: Garden1

The RHS hopes to have near the usual 140,000 visitors at Hampton Court, the biggest flower show to go ahead for two years – but numbers allowed in are undecided after the Government extended Covid restrictions until July 19. Source: Garden1

Defra secretary of state George Eustice’s new peat strategy proposes introducing a ban or “a point-of sale charge for the purchase of growing media containing peat, using the plastic bag charge as a model”. Source: Garden1

Amid shortages of garden furniture, the Leisure and Outdoor Furniture Association says freight costs are growing and are escalating and it is now demanding Government action. Source: Garden1

Garden writer Peter Seabrook says it is unlikely there will be enough alternatives to peat in the near future. Source: Garden1

Peter Seabrook is seeing 1,200 one litre, black, rigid, recycled flower pots from garden centres or nurseries for a project to grow Kerley and Earley Ornamentals chrysanthemums in Pershore this month. Source: Garden1

Business development and planning specialists at Malcolm Scott Consultants have hailed the launch of a new Southend garden centre restaurant. Source: Garden1

New plants, planning permissions, people, peat-frees and turnover hikes are winners, while the pandemic, pests, Brexit and labour have brought headaches to the sector. Source: Garden1

Money.co.uk has investigated which is the hardest houseplant to find online in the UK. Source: Garden1

With comparisons to May 2020 invalid as garden centres were locked down for much of the month, new figures show garden retail sales rose against two years ago this May. Source: Garden1

B&Q plans to be 100% peat-free across its bagged growing media range “as soon as possible” in 2023. Source: Garden1

The latest ONS jobs figures show 3.042m jobs in retail, up 1,000 year-on-year, Source: Garden1

A garden centre has had to close its restaurant after a Covid-19 case. Source: Garden1

Design Ventura is the Design Museum’s annual design and enterprise competition for schools run in partnership with Deutsche Bank’s global youth engagement programme Born to Be. Source: Garden1

Mr Fothergill’s Seeds has announced a new partnership with Italian seed brand, Franchi Sementi and UK-based Italian goods supplier, Seeds of Italy, for the 2022 gardening season. Source: Garden1

Worcestershire County Council has released a case study on Hayloft Plants, which trades from Manor Farm Nurseries, at Pensham near Pershore. Source: Garden1

Garden events could be hit by delayed lockdown easing. Source: Garden1

Dobbies Garden Centres “is the first UK garden business to launch an own-brand, peat-free compost with added John Innes”. Source: Garden1

Rainbarrow Farm near Poundbury in Dorset showed latest development in sustainable energy, supported by the Prince of Wales. Source: Garden1