Garden centres face lost business as compensation is ruled out for Olympic event road closures.
Garden centre planning consultant Malcolm Scott five weeks' of atrocious weather and the "obvious impact this will have on garden centre sales, the last thing garden centres and nurseries want is more competition".
The EU's Timber Regulation will apply from 3 March 2013, with guidance expected this summer.
Garden Centre Group (GCG) chief executive Nicholas Marshall has labelled the Easter Sunday trading ban bizarre and suggested that some other centres might break the law to open.
Channel Island governments will not appeal last month's High Court ruling that HMRC's action to withdraw Low Value Consignment Relief (LVCR) from the Channel Islands alone was lawful.
Industry bodies will take united lobbying to Parliament in their bid to secure drought exemptions for landscaping projects.
Garden centres welcome the Government's planned extension of Sunday opening hours as a critical boost for sales.
Outdoor heating supplier La Hacienda has taken legal action against a company called White Shores, enforcing its intellectual property (IP) rights after it said it discovered White Shores selling "inferior quality chimeneas under the La Hacienda brand name".
Sunday trading laws are expected to be suspended by the government on eight weekends from 22 July during the Olympics and Paralympics.
Water companies have announced blanket hosepipe bans across the south east of England in response to a Drought Prospects report from the Environment Agency.
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