G Plants

eco-friendly products from G Plants

Easy gardening solutions with pollen-rich flower varieties to help entice and protect pollinators and other garden wildlife. All packaging is recyclable. Designed and packed in the UK.

STOCK UP ON BEES® SEEDS & BEE FRIENDS® BEST SELLERS NOW & PAY NEXT YEAR !!!

G Plants along with the support from our merchandising team will re-fill all video stands with stock, and delay payment so that sales continue throughout the winter as they make great Christmas gifts & stocking fillers!

Video units help to promote product and increase sales!

From the 1st September until 30th November 2022 all stock* delivered will have the invoicing delayed until January 2023. Have product in stock and selling through for up to 6 months before having to pay!

B r i n g o n s u m m e r, p l e a s e !

As the longest day of 2022 passes, we are still waiting for a prolonged spell of warm weather to spend consecutive days of leisure time out in the garden.

At the start of the year many predicted that the weather would once again be the main factor effecting sales in 2022 and while it doesn’t seem to have hit gardening activity so far it would appear to be one of the issues contributing to slower than hoped for garden leisure sales.

A welcome spell of proper summer weather, soon please, will tell us if it is just the weather holding sales back or whether the economic situation is dampening sales after two fantastic years.

Whatever the outcome, one thing is key: New will be all important for 2023 and beyond. We’ve heard this year the newer aluminium framed furniture has sold through well at retail and at spoga+gafa there wasn’t a set of weave furniture to be seen. We know the COVID lockdowns increased the number of gardeners in the UK and reduced the average age of gardening customers. The key now is understanding how outdoor leisure fashions are changing as a result and what better place to find out how the outdoor leisure manufacturers and suppliers are meeting that demand than at SOLEX 2022.

After two years of virtual SOLEX the GTN team are really looking forward to being back at the NEC for SOLEX 2022 and meeting everyone during the three days, 12th – 14th July. Look out for the SOLEX SUN e-mail newsletter over the coming days and LIVE from the show.

See you there!

changing as a result and what better

In this issue...

2 Welcome to SOLEX 2022

4 New date and new look for SOLEX 2023

8 It’s all about the plants at the HTA National Plant Show

10 Boosting sales at Gardeners World Live

12 Alfresco dining with Glencrest

15 SOLEX 2022 Exhibitor News

24 Innovations from Sipcam

25 Trends from spoga+gafa

Advertisers in this Issue

5 Traeger 6 G Plants

11 STV

14 Vitax 21 Norfolk Leisure

23 Zest 25 PATS Telford 26 Four Oaks Trade Show 27 Fordingbridge 31 Lava Lite 32 SOLEX 2023

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