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  • Left to right: Area Chairman, Helen Lloyd, Ed Webb, owner, and Sarah Brooks, Head of Brand & Digital from Webbs of Wychbold, which was the winner of Garden Centre of the Year in the Destination Garden Centre (DGC) category, with all their awards.

    Great Britain GCA Midlands members receive 2023 regional awards

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    Members of the Garden Centre Association (GCA) in the Midlands region are celebrating after receiving awards during a presentation evening this week (Wednesday, July 5, 2023) at Gates Garden Centre.The title of Garden Centre of the Year in the Destination Garden Centre (DGC) category was awarded...

  • The team at Ruxley Manor Garden Centre with their award for Garden Centre of the Year in the Destination Garden Centre (DGC) category with GCA CEO Peter Burks (back right), and South Thames Area Chairman James Evans (back middle) and GCA Inspector Gordon Emslie (back second left).

    Great Britain GCA’s South Thames 2023 area award winners revealed

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    Members of the Garden Centre Association (GCA) in the South Thames region are celebrating after picking up awards during a presentation evening on Tuesday, July 4, 2023 at Castle Gardens in Dorset. Garden Centre of the Year in the Destination Garden Centre (DGC) category went to Ruxley Manor...

  • Smiemans has started with the renovation of the Dvorak garden centre in Teplice/Czech Republic.

    Czech Republic Start renovation garden centre Dvorak

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    Smiemans has started with the renovation of the Dvorak garden centre in Teplice/Czech Republic. This 1,400 m2 project was built by them in 2008. To optimise the indoor climate in the garden centre the roof, ventilation windows and screens will be replaced. This will result in further energy...

  • GCA Area meeting Wales and West (July 2022).

    Great Britain GCA announces regional award meetings

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    The Garden Centre Association (GCA) has revealed the dates for its summer regional award meetings when members will find out who has come top in its annual inspections for 2023. Garden centres are encouraged to attend the event in their area and to bring as many of their team members along as...

  • IPM Essen 2023 in Germany The big horticultural meeting at the end of January

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    The world's largest horticultural trade fair had to take a break for two years because of a small virus. Now the next edition of IPM Essen will start from 24 to 27 January 2023 - and expects many visitors from all over the world!

  • The wide-span construction for the new garden centre does not have a steel, but a wooden laminated construction made of sustainable certified wood.

    Denmark Another Plantorama garden centre

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    The Danish chain Plantorama has once again commissioned Smiemans Projecten to rebuild the existing garden centre in Amager. First of all, a new restaurant is being built between existing monumental buildings. After completion, the old garden centre will be demolished and the sustainable and larger...

  • The garden centre will have a fully catered restaurant and attractive shop-in-shops.

    Smiemans Projecten Progress building Iceland's largest garden centre

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    The construction of the new garden centre for Gardheimar in Iceland is progressing well. In May, Smiemans Projecten started preparing the rugged volcanic terrain of 3 hectares for construction. Most of the 7,250 m2 steel construction has now been built. The special cladding of the entire structure...

  • The special issue is available online.

    Horticulture technology Special publication on greenhouses

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    Once a year, the editors of the trade magazine DEGA GARTENBAU (Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart/Germany) publish a special issue. In particular, it presents an overview of new garden centers and greenhouses in Germany and Europe.

  • Gardheimar design garden centre construction

    Companies Largest garden centre of Iceland will be built by Smiemans

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    This year Smiemans will build a 7,250 m2 garden centre in Reykjavík. The international architectural firm PK Arkitektar has designed this mega project. The large shop windows, the green roof, the vertical wooden blinds and the architectural facade with continuous canopies give the garden centre...