RHS in regional push with £18m lease
13 Jan 2012 | by Matthew Appleby
Sale of Lawrence Hall for £18m to help finance a programme of nationwide growth including the RHS's first Urban Garden.
Latest Garden Centre Association figures reveal an overall increase of 2.5 per cent in garden retail industry sales for 2011.
Sale of Lawrence Hall for £18m to help finance a programme of nationwide growth including the RHS's first Urban Garden.
Public and private landowners in England and Scotland can use a new website to help find community gardening and food-growing initiatives that could make use of underused plots of land.
Warm temperatures could have implications for spring flowers, with less defined displays than in previous years, gardeners have suggested.
William Sinclair Horticulture managing director Bernard Burns has suggested the introduction of a 200 per cent VAT rate on peat as the best way to phase out widespread use.
Organic gardener Bob Flowerdew's call for Forest Stewardship Council-style certification for peat use has a successful example to follow, according to US scientist Michael Keyes of Scientific Certification Systems.
Supplier reports increased enquiries after Garden Centre Group reveals restaurant sales payback.
Final bids for Garden Centre Group are due in this week.
Slugs and snails have taken the top RHS pest enquiry slot for 2011 after having lost first place to viburnum beetle in 2010.
Homebase was 2.6% down in like-for-like sales at £475m according to Home Retail Group's Interim Management Statement for the 18 weeks from 28 August 2011 to 31 December 2011.


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