New thinking in Garden Retail

We were fortunate enough to be invited to a preview event for the RHS Garden Wisley Plant Centre and Gift Shop. The new Plant Centre is light, airy, confident and sophisticated. it lives out the RHS values with regards to sustainability, from the environmental credentials of the build, through to the reduced use of plastic, the…

Thirsk Garden Centre supports local growers

At one time every Garden Centre consultant would be telling you that the answer lay in being more corporate, copying what the big players were doing and never, ever, should you handwrite signage. Today however we have ripped up the rule book and we celebrate the small producer, the artisan and the independent. So, we…

Adding passion and personality to plants everywhere

We came across this wonderful Hermits Hut at a festival last year. This would add so much passion and personality to any plant offer – at Waring Stewart Towers we love it! It could even make a magical and inspirational Information Centre… Or an office for a Garden Centre Consultant, I love it!   We…

10 Great ideas from Chelsea to use in your Garden Centre today! #2

We love the way some stands, (in particular the greenhouse companies) used bunting to draw attention to their products.

Bunting really attracts attention, in particular under canopies where it can flap gently in the summer breeze… (Well we can all dream!)

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Are you celebrating National Apple Day?

National apple day is the perfect opportunity to celebrate Grow your own, sell fruit trees for autumn planting, have fun, reinforce your credibility and position as experts, connect with your community and delight customers. Oh and if your are Fosseway Garden Centre, sell cider Fosseway Garden Centre are supporting their chosen charity with the longest…

Coming in one months time…

We are very excited about the development of the Garden Centre Academy (@thegcacademy), which will be launching in one months time. (You can follow the conversation on Twitter)