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  • Evergreen Garden Care is the leading garden care company outside North America, producing high quality garden care products designed to help people create their own green oasis amid the rush of modern ...
  • Traeger developed the first ever wood pellet grills over 30 years ago, and since then have continued to within the barbeque industry. We spoke to their UK and Ireland Country Manager, Jo McDonald, abo ...
  • Grow Your Own magazine's Great British Growing Awards are returning to Glee! This September, as part of the exciting Glee Gathering, Grow Your Own will present their sought-after awards to honour the ...
  • The Department for International Trade has released a series of new regulations outlining how trade must be conducted between the UK and the EU from 1st January 2021. Of course, these new rules are co ...
  • Glee Gathering may be over, but that doesn't mean you can't still discover the latest brands and products, handpicked from our exhibitor community. Find out who featured on the line up for The Landsca ...
  • Ahead of Glee Gathering, we sat down with Sarah Mclafferty of Primeur, to find out all about the brand's ECO Garden range and what they're looking forward to at Glee Gathering.  Tell us a bit more abo ...
  • From shopping habits to leisure activities, there's no denying that the lockdown period has changed the way we behave. As we know, many customers found a certain refuge in gardening during the stricte ...
  • It's no secret that consumers' lives are more and more wrapped up in technology and the digital world. As customers seek out authentic connections and convenient shopping experiences, digital marketin ...
  • Driving UK retail forward for 2021 For 2021 we are refuelling UK retail in a post-Covid world. During the lockdown, Hyve Group's UK shows have been a beacon for retail, offering a platform to celebrat ...
  • During the lockdown, it seems that everyone caught the gardening bug. Fuelled by a sunny summer, increased time at home and the need to do something productive, gardening has been embraced, in all its ...
  • In everything from food to fashion, sustainability has been the hot topic on everybody's lips. But it's not necessarily the first thing we associate with horticulture and gardening. Strangely enough, ...
  • When done right, email marketing is a powerful tool for building one on one relationships and engaging your customer base. In fact, email is 40 times more effective at acquiring customers than Faceboo ...
  • Summer is the time we want our gardens to be in full bloom, with plenty of colour and sweet floral scents in the air. With more and more people getting into gardening, take a look at some of the most ...
  • Getting to know Grow Your Own

    09 Jul 2020 Laura Hillier, Editor, Grow Your Own Magazine
    As one of our key partners, we always love catching up with Laura Hillier and her team at Grow Your Own to find out a bit more about them and what they've been up to. In the lead up to Glee Gathering, ...
  • National Growing for Wellbeing Week Success

    30 Jun 2020 Annabelle Padwick
    The second annual National Growing for Wellbeing Week took place at the beginning of June with an overwhelming response from the gardening industry, educational sector and beyond. It inspired so many ...
  • Small space growing

    29 Jun 2020 Grow Your Own
    For many customers, dreams of tucking into plates of delicious home-grown fruit and veg seem to be just dreams if they don't have a large allotment plot or garden; but we know that this isn't true! Th ...
  • According to The Wildlife Trusts, there are approximately 24 million gardens in the UK and naturally, this abundance of outdoor space forms an important part of our modern-day ecosystem. In recent yea ...
  • During the lockdown, we've all been spending more time in our homes. As dining tables have become desks and spare rooms have morphed into home offices, the Glee team have been thankful to have a littl ...
  • How technology will help overcome the challenges we now face

    17 Jun 2020 Darren Windsor, Image Soft
    Who could ever have imagined how much the world would change in the space of only a few months? Since Coronavirus struck, the way we interact as a society has markedly changed; something none of us co ...
  • Glee's partner Grow Your Own have shared some tips with us as we celebrate National Allotment Week. Grow Your Own is a popular consumer magazine for the garden industry sharing invaluable tips and res ...
  • Growing produce and mental wellbeing

    27 May 2020 Annabelle Padwick
    Believe it or not, humans and plants are very similar, so establishing that connection and experiencing the most natural remedy given to us is super important. Some might say that we have more complic ...
  • Whether you're lucky enough to have your own outside space or not, the spring and summer sunshine offers a prime opportunity to get to sowing seeds and tending to plants. As our team continue to work ...
  • Gardening 101 with Grow Your Own

    19 May 2020 Laura Hillier, Grow Your Own
    As we're focussing on growing this month here at Glee, we've sat down with our partners Grow Your Own to get their top tips for lockdown gardening. First off, can you tell us a little more about Grow ...
  • Can you tell us a bit more about your business and your ethos?   As a business, we see ourselves as a helping hand to others, paving the way towards environmental awareness all around the world. We ar ...
  • Amidst all the discussion surrounding retail during the pandemic, no one could be blamed for letting sustainability slip down the priority list. However, whilst it might not be the number one topic on ...
  • Perennial is the safety net for people in the horticulture industry and is here to help anyone working in, or retired from any job involving trees, plants, flowers or grass. We understand the devastat ...
  • With the current pandemic continuing to affect the way we all run our businesses, it is naturally a concerning time for all. During these unprecedented times, many businesses are struggling to adapt a ...
  • The rain might have set in, but that's not stopping the Glee team from enjoying our gardens. Whilst some of us have been enjoying the extra time outside, others of us have been concentrating on our wi ...
  • Over the last month, we have seen unprecedented changes in the horticulture industry due to COVID-19. With the closure of garden centres across the UK forcing growers online and the extra time at home ...
  • By now, we'll all have read Alan Titchmarsh's open letter for The Mail on Sunday calling for the reopening of the nation's garden centres, in line with regulations set out for supermarkets. The TV gar ...