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Writer, broadcaster, former MP and Government Whip Gyles Brandreth has been revealed as a keynote speaker at the Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) Annual Conference at Carden Park Chester next year (January 25-28, 2026).

The Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) July Barometer of Trade (BoT) figures out reveal some positive results for the month.

June’s Barometer of Trade (BoT) figures from the Garden Centre Association (GCA) are out today showing once again catering and food sales at the top but there are other positives too.

Longacres, the UK's largest independent garden centre, is to be extended by Smiemans Projecten in early 2025. The work includes the garden centre's cold sales area and restaurant.

HARD landscaping topped the sales table in the Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) Barometer of Trade (BoT) report for January 2024 with hardy plants, seeds and bulbs also doing well (February 2024). Figures recorded by GCA member garden centres last month show a good start to the new year with just...

The Winners of the Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) most prestigious awards including its Garden Centres of Excellence were announced at its annual conference on Tuesday, January 30, 2024. The awards ceremony took place at the De Vere Cotswold Water Park Hotel near Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

Garden centre teams from across the country are celebrating after receiving awards at the Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) annual conference in the Cotswolds yesterday (Monday, January 29, 2024). The awards were presented to the member garden centres during a ceremony at the De Vere Cotswold...

Smiemans Projecten, specialist in building garden centres, is proud to announce a strategic partnership with Rovero Systems, known for its groundbreaking patented Roll-Air Retail foil greenhouse. This collaboration enriches the range of complete turnkey projects in Europe and strengthens the...

The Garden Centre Association (GCA) has had several new members join it in 2023 – with nine garden centres and 22 associates signing up and approved so far this year. These garden centres include Hillmount Garden Centre, Belfast, The Hertfordshire Garden Centre, Yarnton Home & Garden, Oxfordshire,...

In 2004, Smiemans Projecten built a greenhouse for plant sale at the beautiful garden 'RHS Garden Harlow Carr' in Harrogate (UK). Recently, Smiemans has been commissioned by the RHS to renovate the garden centre. It will be carried out by their local partner Ebtech Glasshouse Construction Ltd this...

Castle Gardens (Garden Centre category) and Garsons Garden Centre Esher (Destination Garden Centre) have been announced as the national winners of the Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) Gisela Graham-sponsored annual Christmas competition for 2023 (December 2023).

The Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) Barometer of Trade (BoT) figures for October reveal a ‘strong food theme’ at member garden centres (2023). Eight of the GCA’s 13 categories saw an uplift during the month, as recorded by member centres, and the figures also revealed a positive year-to-date...

BESTSELLING author and BBC radio and TV neuroscience presenter, Dr Hannah Critchlow will be speaking about wellbeing at the Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) annual conference on Tuesday, January 30 (January 28 until 31, 2024).

Garden centre staff can now gain knowledge to help customers to deter and combat pests in a more natural, sustainable way via the Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) GROW (Garden Retail Online Workshops) e-Learning platform (November 2023).

September’s Garden Centre Association (GCA) Barometer of Trade (BoT) figures have just been released and they show it was a ‘good month’ for members with an already ‘strong’ start to Christmas sales (2023). The BoT saw an uplift in nearly all the GCA’s 13 categories recorded at member garden...

Booking has now opened for the Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) annual conference next January (2024) and the organisation has also revealed its 21st century themes and its top-quality speaker line-up too. The conference, which takes place at De Vere Cotswold Water Park Hotel near Cirencester...

The Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) August Barometer of Trade (BoT) figures have revealed an ‘excellent month’ with members seeing an uplift in 11 of the 13 categories recorded by the organisation (2023) in Great Britain.

The Garden Centre Association (GCA) has just introduced another new module to its Garden Retail Online Workshops (GROW) e-Learning platform – this time on Sustainable Disease Control (August 2023). With growing public environmental awareness, it’s designed to provide garden centre staff with the...

Garden Centre Association (GCA) members in Scotland and Northern Ireland are celebrating after picking up awards during a presentation evening on July 11, 2023 at Simpsons Garden Centre in Inverness. In Scotland, Klondyke Mortonhall Garden Centre was awarded Garden Centre of the Year in the...

Garden Centre Association (GCA) members across the North East and North West had plenty to cheer about Wednesday, July 5 after picking up a bevvy of awards during a presentation at Tingley Garden Centre.The North East’s Garden Centre of the Year in the Destination Garden Centre (DGC) category was...