Malus domestica

Apple trees’ wide variety of fruit and splendid flower displays should appeal to new gardeners, Sally Drury suggests.

Dwarf Narcissus

These well-loved flowers can help to sustain passion for growing that built up during lockdown, Sally Drury suggests.

Hebe

These plants are enjoyed for their dense spikes, panicles or racemes of flowers and for their foliage, writes Sally Drury.

Dobbies, Designer Outlet Cotswolds, Gloucestershire

How upmarket rebuild at Haskins Snowhill was driven by customer base

Garden centre profile: Haskins Snowhill, Copthorne, West Sussex

Why negotiation is good for business

How relationships can generate sales

How to build loyalty and sales in horticultural businesses

Why face-to-face trading is still best

We live in very different times and I was interested to hear Evergreen Garden Care pretty well took over a hotel, built half-a-dozen studios in different rooms and held Zoom meetings with more than 250 customers over two days.

Help more people to start growing

Derek Bunker at Alton Garden Centre is always worth hearing out.

Big opportunities ready to be seized

There can be no dispute about the huge number of people new and returned to gardening as a result of the lockdown.