Already the UK’s largest peat-free growing media manufacturer, The Greener Gardening Company has confirmed that it is currently exceeding its own expectations, with almost 60% of its product portfolio set to be peat-free in 2021, up from 20% in 2019. This significant achievement – great news for both the industry and the environment – has
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Last year the Dutch floriculture sector exported 2.4 billion Euros in house plants, a new record. However, the total export of flowers and plants combined dropped by four percent, making the export market for flowers and plants just under 6 billion euros, according to Floridata and branch organisation, VGB. The export of flowers dropped by
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With this year’s annual conference postponed, the Garden Centre Association (GCA) is looking back at highlights from its 2020 event, where Buddhist monk, Gelong Thubten was one of the stand-out key speakers. In 1993, in his early twenties, Thubten suffered with stress and decided to go to a monastery to learn meditation. Initially planning to
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Chris Bonnett, who runs Bonnetts Garden Village in Brentwood has voluntarily taken the decision to shut his doors to keep staff and customers safe as the new strain of COVID19 takes hold. He believes garden centres should only open if they’re selling essentials like pet food and fuel and if they’re not, they should be
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Gardening Express owned Bonnetts Garden Village has announced that “with a heavy heart” it is closing up its business as the coronavirus crisis in the UK deepens. In a statement made on January 1 via Facebook, the Brentwood-based garden centre said: Due to the ongoing Coronavirus Crisis we have with a heavy heart taken the
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The Chairman of the Horticultural Trades Association, James Barnes, has recognised the remarkable efforts of people in Britain’s horticultural industries and committed to getting straight back to business on their behalf in January 2021, urging the trade to do everything it can to be prepared for the new year in advance. “As we reach the
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