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The home and garden retail segment can often prove to be a challenging one for eCommerce businesses. Up until recently, consumers couldn’t image making home and garden purchases online; and for many, it is still the case. Even if products were ordered online, the transactions themselves were only made once the customer had been in-store to get a feel for what they were buying. Home and garden retail is unique. They can be expensive, highly personal purchases that are made infrequently at household-level. As a result, customer journeys are often long and fragmented - weighing up a range of…

Kersten Capella the WYEVALE Nurseries’ Sales and Marketing Director is to speak about her industry experience and leadership role at the inspirational ‘Women in Horticulture’ event on Thursday, November 14 at Horticulture House in Oxfordshire. Joining Fran Barnes the CEO of the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA), on the podium, Kersten will also be helping to fundraise for the horticultural sector charity Perennial. Kersten explains: “It’s an honour to have been invited to take part in this inspirational event on Thursday, November 14 at Horticulture House in Oxfordshire. “The…

This year, we have added over 45 new individual varieties to our pictorial range including vegetables, flowers, herbs and organic seeds from our sister company, Suffolk Herbs for the 2025 Season. As well as this, we have also added 2 brand new stand collections. One includes our new Starter Collection Packs, and the other stand just for Sunflowers! Our new starter pack collection features 10 different starter seed packets. Each packet includes 5 individual foils of seeds, giving customers a variety of seeds to sow. Our collection packs still include growing instructions for each variety on…

Hyve Group the Glee organiser, have announced that eBay will be a sponsor of the 50th anniversary of the event, which will take place at the NEC, Birmingham from 10th - 12th September. The new partnership with the UK’s premier garden trade exhibition will see more businesses able to take advantage of selling on eBay, which is one of the world’s largest hubs for SME trading. eBay seen as world-renowned and trustworthy is one of the largest online marketplaces, with a booming sector worth more than £137 billion last year, and expected to reach over £152 billion in 2024. eBay is ideally suited…

Johnston & Jeff PREMIUM bird feed manufacturer extends its range of products to help with wildlife care for a larger variety of wildlife. The company based in Yorkshire, has been supplying high-end wild bird seed for almost 150 years, has introduced a hedgehog mix dedicated to helping to reduce the decline of the species.  In addition to this, they also supply Squirrel and Chipmunk mix in a plastic-free 1.2kg bag, plus its Duck, Swan and Goose mix in a 1.5kg plastic-free bag, ensuring the blends are more portable. The company say that the new ranges will help people to be able to feed…

As the garden retail sector gets ready for Glee and buyers are busy planning their visit to the show (10th – 12th September, NEC Birmingham), it has been confirmed that Deroma - the world’s largest terracotta pot manufacturer – is making its highly anticipated return, marking an end to its three-year hiatus from exhibiting. Deroma’s return has been influenced by Glee’s new dateline, which sees the show return to a September schedule. Jonathan Price, Head of UK at Deroma, said: “The timing of Glee is now much more aligned with the sales seasonality of our core customers, making a return to…

Garden centres can now order France’s most famous soap from its exclusive new UK distributor. Marius Fabre’s Marseille soap is as emblematic of the country's southern Provence region as lavender fields and cicadas, and the all-natural and sustainable olive oil-based products are suitable for a host of daily uses in the home and garden. Palm oil-free, the 100% vegetable-based natural and biodegradable products are environmentally friendly, and the packaging is entirely recyclable.  Some of the range is also Ecocert certified and organic. With seven ranges that include everything from an…

Water fountains have surged in popularity in recent years, with consumers embracing their tranquil sounds and the added benefit of attracting wildlife to their gardens. Recognising this trend, Easy Fountain – part of the AMES UK family of brands – has responded quickly and strategically to help retailers capitalise on this growing demand. At Glee 2024, Easy Fountain will unveil an exciting new chapter in the world of water fountains, including a carefully curated range of mains powered fountains plus the brand’s first foray into solar and solar-hybrid, together meeting diverse consumer needs…

EntoGrow is a unique product that can help gardeners of all experiences and abilities care for your garden all year round. Where do we start on the benefits of EntoGrow™? There are so many, and it seems that this outstanding mealworm manure (frass) fertiliser will be well-known in UK households in the coming year. As our climate changes and growers adjust their gardening choices accordingly, the benefits of frass in helping plants deal with the stress of increased drought and the immigration of new pests will be widely acknowledged. Here, horticulturist and co-founder of EntoGrow, Emma…

Garden product stockists will have a wider product choice in the 2025 season following the news that Garland Products has launched 46 new items. Included in the new offerings are 19 propagation items that will cement Garland’s position as the market leader in this sector. Among the new products are: A Duo Pack Standard Propagator set that will complement the company’s vacuum formed range. 5cm Fibre Pot Tom pot and injection moulded Square Mini Tom Pots, available in either Black or Sage green.   A Propagator Pot available in either Black or Sage colour.  When combined with a Cloche Cover,…

Empathy, the pioneering gardening company known for its Rootgrow mycorrhizal fungi, is introducing new products and packaging in its biofertiliser range for 2024. Regenerative farming is becoming a significant trend in modern agriculture, with a fundamental focus on soil health. Many adopted practices and treatments are designed to enhance the underlying biology. The relationship between beneficial biology and the soil's efficiency in transferring nutrients to crops, consequently allowing for a reduction in chemical use, represents a new frontier in farming. Empathy, the UK's resource for…

My name is Gwen Petitpierre and I have developed Goodlifegateway to provide 4 varieties of Liquid Organic Plant Food. These plant foods are the result of growing up on a fairly traditional smallholding, where my parents grew all our fruit and veg, kept beef and lamb, and used typical methods of the time, i.e. the 1970's. If there was a weed, it was weedkillered, if something needed a boost, a trip to the barn provided all the chemicals you could imagine. When my children were born, I started to think very differently about the food we ate, how it was produced and how to grow strong healthy…

You can never place too much emphasis on how important it is to have a great retail display in your garden centre. Something that isn’t rammed to the gills making it difficult for the consumer to remove a product, having informative POS so the customer can be confident in their purchase and of course, having stock so those embarrassing empty spaces don’t cause you problems. Eliza Tinsley and our gardening brand, Greenman Garden Tools, have you covered. Regardless of the size of your store, we have a display system perfectly suited to bring the wow factor as well as the national support…

The annual Greenfingers Charity Fundraising Dinner is set to return later this year on Thursday 28th November, with even more opportunities for supporters of the children’s hospice garden charity to dig deep and boost the annual fundraising total before the year wraps up. A popular event on the Greenfingers Charity’s calendar, the fundraising dinner has seen its numbers expand year-on-year, with the 2023 dinner welcoming over 130 guests and a fundraising total exceeding £35,000. This year, on the cusp of the charity’s 25th anniversary in 2025, the team is hoping to see these numbers increase…

Most businesses have been urged to conduct a carbon footprint review to gauge just how much carbon has been used producing their product. In conducting this exercise, even down to calculating the carbon used by employees getting to work, we realised our product absorbed carbon during production thereby offsetting the inputs used. We decided to measure this carbon absorption to see if it was significant. We grow the plants on the nursery for 3 - 5 years so the carbon sequestered is cumulative the older the plants get. The plants are grown in 1 litre pots in the first year, 3 litre pots in the…

Many gardeners grow the same old favourites every year, which is fine, but why not add something new also to your Flower display or Vegetable plot, and who knows this new introduction may become a future favourite.  Kings Seeds has introduced many New varieties to its Retail range for 2024. Some Highlights are:- Antirrhinum ‘Sweet Duet Mixed’, a dwarf, basal branching snapdragon with strong stems, each clothed in a delightful range of Highly fragrant double flowers. Offers maximum impact in borders or containers. Calendula ‘Double Lemon’, a unique new colour in dwarf Calendula, with large…