- New plans have been submitted to build a garden centre near Rowlands Castle in Hampshire.
- Rolawn's products have been incorporated into many Chelsea Flower Show gardens and displays.
- Morrisons has put in a planning application to create room for an outdoor garden centre at its new Wrexham store.
- Glee is holding a one day workshop for potential and existing exhibitors at Solus Garden & Leisure in Droitwich on 14 June.
- Fermoy's Garden Centre director Alan Murdoch has completed cycling 247 miles in five days on a tandem towing a wheelbarrow full of plants from Devon to Chelsea Flower Show.
- Signs are looking good for Harrogate Week 2013, says organiser BIGGA.
- Staff members at the Squire's Garden Centres in Washington, Cobham & Stanmore this week held a celebration to mark the first anniversary of the centres joining the Squire's family of garden centres.
- Some 58 per cent of garden retailers plan (HTA figures) to run diamond jubilee themed promotions with 29 per cent planning promotions around the Olympics, despite fears that TV watching will draw customers away from garden centres.
- A bare earth garden with two buried Smart cars covered in artificial turf was not what the Royal Horticultural Society expected when it booked a trendy urban office designer to showcase a fashionable home office one of its six figure stands for the Chelsea Flower Show.
- Gardenex, the Federation of Garden & Leisure Manufacturers, has announced several cost saving opportunities at overseas trade exhibitions for UK exporters of garden and pet care products.
- Terra Firma chairman Guy Hands has spoken out about his £276m purchase of Garden Centre Group this spring.
- Competition was as intense as ever at this year's show.
- University of Sheffield's Professor James Hitchmough has told the RHS's president's lunch that "horticulture is in danger of going extinct".
- Cleve West's Brewin Dolphin Garden has won best in show at Chelsea Flower Show for the second year in succession.
- STIHL has launched the inaugural British Championship of the STIHL Timbersports series.
- Moreton Town Council has voted to formally object to plans to enlarge Fosseway Garden Centre's cafe on the outskirts of Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire.
- Manchester-based HOW Planning has submitted a full planning application for the redevelopment of Garden & Leisure's Percy Thrower Garden Centre in Shrewsbury alongside the development of a new Waitrose store.
- The Garden Nursery, in London Road, Shenley, Hertfordshire, closed last week after the site was sold to developers to build cottages.
- Gardman has raised £7,000 for Greenfingers since November 2011 in cash and product donations.
- The Arboricultural Association's annual Arb Show, now in its 14th year, will benefit from a new site, feature a varied workshop programme and offer a range of new product launches.
