At a glance guide to selecting and caring for your Christmas poinsettia: Select a plant with a minimum of five heads, as it will give a longer lasting display. Ensure that the poinsettia is sleeved before taking it outside to get it home with you. Once you get your poinsettia home, you should place it…
Selecting the perfect Christmas tree Selecting the right Christmas tree for you and your home is an important job. Whether you opt for a real or artificial tree, you will have to live with it for well over a month, so you want to be sure you’re selecting the right one. Follow our handy tips…
Our members are being invited to put together their marketing campaigns to enter our prestigious annual Worrall Cup competition (December 2024). We’ll be awarding a cup to the garden centre with the best marketing initiative during our 2025 annual conference in January. Most creativity Our CEO, Peter says: “Our member garden centres demonstrate some great…
Vote now open Associate Member of the Year 2024 Our garden centre members are being asked to vote for their Associate Member of the Year 2024 – with the winner revealed at our annual conference in January (January 26 until 29, 2025). The award recognises companies or individuals that have contributed to the success of…
October BoT reveals a ‘encouraging’ figures for members Our October Barometer of Trade (BoT) figures out today show ‘an encouraging set of figures’ (November 20, 2024). From the results entered by our member garden centres for the month, it was revealed, when compared to October 2023, that nine of the 13 categories recorded were up.…
London Retail Safari at 2025 Conference Our annual conference in January will start with a bespoke Retail Safari in London led by a well-known Retail Futurist whose clients have included Marks & Spencer (November 2024). The Safari represents the launch event for our 2025 Conference, which takes place at De Vere Wokefield Estate, Reading, from…
What do in the garden in November Ten top tips from our experts on what to do in the garden this month (November). 1. Conifers add much needed colour and shape to your garden in the winter months and are starting to become more popular again with the gardening community all over the world. There…
Looking berry good in November Berries and fruits provide cheerful splashes of colour in the garden once leaves begin to fall. Some of the shrub roses are terrific, laden with large red or orange hips, like ‘Fru Dagmar Hastrup’, ‘Scabrossa’ and ‘Scarlet Fire’. Hips Some of the rose species like Rosa rugosa, dog rose (R.canina),…
Jobs to do in the garden in November November marks the start of winter and the time when any remaining colour in the garden begins to fade. Now is the time to start preparing for next year’s growing season and it’s still a good time for planting all hardy plants too. Plant • Finish planting…
Four great gardening tasks to tackle this weekend… If you’re looking for a few seasonal tasks to tackle in the garden this weekend, then how about these four? 1. Clean out nesting boxes and use boiling hot water to kill any over-wintering parasites. 2. Plant tulip bulbs. 3. Sow broad beans and peas. 4. Plant…