HortWeek's sector-leading Top 175 UK garden centres report leads the most read stories at hortweek.com in September. The comprehensive report gives full details of garden retail performance and more.
Expanding nurseries is the second most clicked on story, while the death of Four Oaks' Pat Coutts led to tributes from many in the industry.
Also well-read were easy-to-read round-ups and analysis of sector issues and reports such as reaction to the Ornamental Horticulture Round Table's £42bn report, labour, price rises, labour, fuel and gas crises and plant health.
Exclusive, real-time, hands-on reports on Glee and Chelsea, rounding up trends, products and reaction, were popular as physical shows returned.
2. Five growers expansion plans
3. Obituaries of leading horticulture figures who died in 2021
4. Tributes pour in for Four Oaks' Pat Coutts
5. Titchmarsh says gardening is too nice as he backs £42bn report
6. How much are garden centre plants and products prices rising by and is Brexit or Covid to blame?
7. Garden centre farm shops - the Clarkson effect
8. What are the garden centre best products and trends from Glee?
9. RHS Chelsea Flower Show - eight things to look out for
10. Lord Benyon and Nicola Spence defend proposed plant health crackdown
11. Top 175 UK Garden Centres 2021 reflect ups and downs of a rollercoaster year and changes in the top 10
12. Eight leading garden retail figures speak on demand for the rest of 2021 and hopes for 2022
13. Plant importers and HTA welcome delay to checks on plants imported from the EU
14. Free fuel giveaway at garden centre
15. How bad is the skills shortage in the horticulture industry?
16. RHS Chelsea Flower Show - what are the trends?
17. After crazy year for growers normality returns but issues around labour, pricing, peat and transport remain
18. Are olive trees set to make a comeback?
19. What are the seven bestselling branded plants in garden centres in 2021?
20. How did commercial horticulture get on at RHS Chelsea Flower Show?
21. 10 horticulture developments you may have missed this week
22. Where are Britain's garden centres concentrated?
23. RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021 in a nutshell
24. Seabrook warns about plastic content in green waste compost
26. Growers given €2m after Xylella outbreak
27. Why isnt RHS Chelsea Flower Show plant-based? asks top garden designer
28. Which plants have won awards this year?
29. British Garden Centres new accounts show 58-centre performance for first time
30. NFU's Ali Capper tells BBC the only local worker on her farm is her son
