UK’s garden centres hope sunshine and Chelsea flower show will help them rebound from the rain
18-05-2024 01:00 via theguardian.com

UK’s garden centres hope sunshine and Chelsea flower show will help them rebound from the rain

A cold, damp spring depressed plant sales in the UK, but help is at hand from the ‘Glastonbury festival of the gardening world’The sixth-wettest April on record has not been kind to Britain’s gardens or its 1,600 garden centres.So far this year, with most of the key selling season over, garden centre sales are up just 2% on last year and down 11% on 2022, after the sodden spring depressed sales of shrubs, trees, bedding plants and seeds. Continue reading...
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