Dobbies Dundee retail unit not ready for Christmas

How big is Christmas for British Garden Centres?

The highly-anticipated Christmas season has arrived early this year for British Garden Centres, as it opened its doors to customers in September to an influx of pent-up shoppers. Following a temperamental and wet summer and a few years of subdued Christmases due to...

Bradford garden centre group wins community award

The team at a Bradford-based garden centre group is celebrating after winning a regional business award. Yorkshire Garden Centres, owner of Tong, Tingley, Bingley and Otley Garden Centres, won the Community category of the Yorkshire Post Excellence in Business...

Feverfew launched new gardening apparel for women

Meet the supplier: Feverfew Garden Co

Taking the gardening glove market by storm, Feverfew Garden Co is the UK’s first garden wear brand exclusively designed for women, by women. Garden Centre Retail catches up with Rachel Eunson, the driving force behind the brand. As with many recent ventures,...

Ex HSBC economist to speak at GCA conference 2024

Former HSBC Head of Economics will be helping delegates at the Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) annual conference understand the resurgence of inflation and the challenges that it continues to bring (January 28 until 31, 2024). Mark Berrisford-Smith, who worked...

Bolster Your Extended Producer Sustainable Responsibility Grow-How

If you asked one hundred people what is the most sustainable shop they know, you probably wouldn’t be surprised if the vast majority eventually settled on garden centres. For those of us immersed in all things horticulture, it would be fair to say that there’s...

Primeur launches new range of recycled planters

Looking to the 2024 season, garden retailers can step up their sustainability game and enhance their outdoor offer with a brand-new Primeur range of recycled planter designs and colourways. If you are keen to stay ahead of the curve and meet the increasing demand...

Haskins team leader presents sustainable composting initiative to GCA

A team leader from Haskins Garden Centre, Snowhill, is encouraging change in the industry by presenting a compelling scheme to encourage increased hot bin composting, to the GCA. Shelley Harrison is calling for increased engagement with the sustainable gardening...

Timestamping launched to help with e-commerce

Timestamping, promotional price transparency solution launched

Vaultinum has launched a certified Timestamping offer, enabling the creation of traceable digital proofs. Among other uses, Vaultinum's Timestamping solution will enable companies to demonstrate their compliance with the EU Omnibus Directive (28/05/2022). This...

The dark side of the boom – the rise of ecommerce consumer fraud

Over a third of all internet shoppers (40%) committed fraud within the last 12 months. This is one of the shocking central findings of new research commissioned by prevention provider Ravelin, exploring the attitudes, motivations, values, and backgrounds of a...

Sustainable pest control launched on GROW platform

GCA GROW launches sustainable pest control course

Garden centre staff can now gain knowledge to help customers to deter and combat pests in a more natural, sustainable way via the GCA GROW (Garden Retail Online Workshops) e-Learning platform. The organisation has launched its new Sustainable Pest Control course....