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  • Among ongoing awareness around sustainability, green spaces and mental health, there’s another gardening trend set to take off this year. When looking at popular searches on Google, the term “homegrow ...
  • Lava-Lite is the Midlands Green Start-up of the Year winner at the final of the StartUp Awards National Series. This brand new awards programme has been launched to recognise the booming startup scene ...
  • Heritage comes first for Crimple Hall, a Pannal-based garden centre with family connections at its heart. With its stunning aesthetics and wealth of facilities, Crimple Hall is not just a garden centr ...
  • Picture the scene – it’s late June and the sun is shining. The garden retail sector has come together to showcase the latest innovation and merchandising solutions ahead of the 2023 season, to source ...
  • With gardening booming and the value of exhibitions stronger than ever, it will come as no surprise that Glee 2022 – taking place in late June 28th – 30th – at the NEC Birmingham – will be a hotbed of ...
  • Here at Hyve we are celebrating International Women’s Day; 8th March 2022. Hyve, and all its colleagues, will be supporting this global celebration to mark the social, economic, cultural and political ...
  • Home to the biggest brands in gardening, plus a host of exciting new innovators, Glee 2022 is set to be THE place to boost your retail offering for the year ahead. Last year the show welcomed highly t ...
  • Launched all the way back in 2009, the Glee Innovators Zone has helped hundreds of companies break into the garden retail market and is the first port of call at the show for many visiting buyers.  De ...
  • As Glee 2022 fast approaches - June 28th – 30th 2022 (NEC Birmingham) – we have been joined by one of the show’s most exciting exhibitors to find out more about its plans for the show. Here Ivyline’s ...
  • As the garden retail sector looks forward to Glee 2022 - set to run at the new date of June 28th – 30th 2022 at the NEC Birmingham – we catch up with some of the show’s leading brands to find out more ...
  • Echoing the incredible growth that is shaping the garden retail sector, Glee 2022 – taking part in late June (28th – 30th, NEC Birmingham) - is enjoying pre-pandemic levels of activity, helping the ex ...
  • June 2022 floorplan 75% booked. Hot on the heels of a thriving 2021 event, the 2022 edition of Glee is now just six months away and is set to be the biggest edition of the UK’s leading garden retail e ...
  • Retail Spotlight: Bampton Garden Plants

    20 Dec 2021 Suzanne Ellingham, Head of Content
    Glee Birmingham 2022 will no doubt welcome traders from all over the UK. One garden centre that has caught the eye of retail experts is Bampton Garden Plants, the Oxford-based garden centre is renowne ...
  • Here at Glee, we're constantly on the lookout for the most exciting new collections and the trends driving the industry forward. As we prepare to reopen the doors to Glee this September, we've been ta ...
  • It is a truth universally acknowledged that retaining a loyal customer base is more cost-effective than constantly churning new customers. A dedicated stream of loyal footfall is the stuff of dreams f ...
  • Setting up your own edible garden from scratch can be as challenging as it is exciting, but help is at hand. The team at Grow Your Own magazine have compiled some helpful tips and tricks to get you of ...
  • In the digital age, when consumers are more connected than ever, the role of social media is ever evolving. At its inception, social media was a platform for connecting with friends and family. Moving ...
  • With an estimated 24 million gardens in the UK, the potential for UK gardens to support wildlife is enormous, and gardeners are increasingly investing in products that will make the perfect wildlife g ...
  • RocketGro launched earlier this year with an innovative solution to one of the garden sectors biggest challenges; greener growing. Using the organic by-product of renewable energy, friends and busines ...
  • As first time exhibitors not just the Glee Green Heart but exhibitions in general, the award has been warmly received by the team at Hills Plants, who have been using Glee to promote its range of Brit ...
  • They say absence makes the heart grow fonder and this certainly felt like an accurate sentiment at Glee last week, when the garden retail sector was finally able to reunite after a two-year hiatus. Mi ...
  • Nineteen fantastic new garden and pet product innovations have been confirmed as this year's winners of the coveted Glee New Product Showcase, at a special award presentation organised and run by Gard ...
  • The winners of the prestigious Glee Buyers Power List for 2021 were announced this afternoon (Wednesday September 15th) from The Stage content theatre at the show, which is still running at the NEC, B ...
  • For the first time in Glee’s 47-year history, the show will move from September to June, 28th-30th. After listening to the needs of our visitors and exhibitors, we are confident that the new June date ...
  • As Glee 2021 gets set to open its doors at the NEC from 14th – 16th September, retailers and other trade buyers are invited to register online for the first in-person European event for our industry t ...
  • At first sight, influencers and the gardening industry seem totally unrelated. As an industry that can be considered more traditional and less digitally-focused, social media doesn't often get much of ...
  • Optimise profit potential of seasonal plants now - with seasonal plants being more topical than ever, the Green Heart represents an opportunity to buy high impact lines for immediate delivery and sale ...
  • Glee 2021 is just around the corner (14th – 16th September, NEC Birmingham). With eight thriving product sectors and thousands of new products set to launch at the exhibition, it comes as no surprise ...
  • Last week saw Chancellor Rishi Sunak announce the Spring Budget, with plans to support the UK economy as we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic. It's no secret that the pandemic has hit retail hard and ...
  • In recent years, e-commerce and traditional bricks and mortar retail have crossed into one another's territories, creating a new wave of hybrid shopping. Whether in the form of a website or social med ...