These range from helping customers to go green with recycling projects, to major environmentally friendly schemes adopted by Webbs themselves. The firm hopes to cut its carbon footprint and reduce energy use.

Already selling well, at a RRP of £19.99, now is the time to make sure you have plenty in stock, as your customers start to make plans for their summer garden.

With spring in the air, a positive vibe is permeating the industry. Garden Centre Update is also blossoming, with three new feature areas set to appear monthly. In Garden Centre Spotlight, we talk to a new retailer every month, offering an insight into how others in the industry operate. We find out what the top selling product is, get tips on how to keep the consumer spending AND offer retailers the chance to tell us what concerns them most about the industry.

Garsons Garden Centre and Farm Shop at Esher, Surrey features a fabulous Farm Shop, Garden Centre and Restaurant, Pick Your Own Farm and Poolclean swimming pool shop.

A new green product made only from green waste. Microlife is a sustainable growing media and a great alternative to peat based products.

Supagro, Vitax's new, 100% organic, general purpose fertiliser promotes heavy crops of fruit and vegetables, balanced, vigorous plants and beautiful flowers. Made in the UK using a unique, energy efficient process from the sustainable resources of the food processing industry, Supagro releases a steady supply of organic nutrients with added lime to ‘sweeten' the soil.

Easy to grow and delightful to give, Tomorrow Garden is an innovative range of tissue culture plantlets. Each Tomorrow Garden features a miniature re-usable biome, which creates the perfect environment for plantlets to grow in and only requires simple misting to keep them moist.

Forest Garden, the UK's leading provider of timber products for the garden, is building on its reputation for tapping into consumer trends with the launch of a new range of ‘Grow Your Own' (GYO) products.

As part of the expansion of its organic, peat-free range, based on recycled garden waste, Vital Earth has launched two types of bark mulch.

As part of the expansion of its organic, peat-free range, based on recycled garden waste, Vital Earth has launched Farmyard Manure, a natural nutrient-rich soil conditioner. This brings the total range to over 30 products, making it the only one stop shop for 100% natural, 100% sustainable and 100% UK-sourced green growing media.

Peat-free and 100% recycled composts manufacturer, Vital Earth, whose products are made from recycled garden waste, has now launched a specialist Houseplant Compost.

Malcolm Scott Consultants Ltd has gained planning permission for the ambitious redevelopment of Redfields Garden Centre after considered and lengthy negotiation with the Local Planning Authority. Landscape proposals and a Retail Impact Assessment prepared by Malcolm Scott Consultants Ltd were pivotal in gaining the planning permission. 

Bank holiday chores needn't be boring with Kärcher, the leading manufacturer of pressure washers. Celebrating 25 years of the consumer pressure washer, Kärcher is pleased to offer customers a limited edition ‘Anniversary Package', the complete kit for your home, car and garden, available at a special anniversary rate.

DRAPER TOOLS has launched its 2009 Gardening Tools & Accessories Catalogue, featuring almost 400 products for general gardening and landscaping. The 60 page booklet is packed full of essential garden tools at typical retail inc VAT prices and features many new lines for this season.

With over 40 different charcoal, gas and electric models, priced between £39.99 and £2,199.00 (RRP), Weber has a barbecue to suit every taste and budget.

With the warmer weather upon us - and Bank Holidays looming - spring is the season for sprucing up the house and garden. Whether it's outside or in, now is the time that homeowners will be thinking about maintaining their metalwork, whether it's essential maintenance or a whole new look. Whatever the reason, retailers can see solid home improvement sales this spring with Hammerite.

Outdoor living specialist, Rowlinson Garden Products has introduced a new range of bin stores to help stockists meet consumer demand for attractive storage solutions.

They already distribute some of the largest names in the tool trade- Dewalt, CK Tools and Cooper Tools, now global manufacturer, importer and distributor Great Star (UK) ltd are opening their doors to help businesses in crisis. Garden centres, hardware stores and multiples are cutting the numbers of accounts that they deal with. Where does this leave you? If you are a small business struggling to keep up with the bigger boys then it leaves you in a bad position.

Stax Trade Centres is anticipating big things for its gardening business in 2009 as they expand their already massive range of garden related products. The Garden, DIY and Hardware wholesaler has felt a sharp increase in demand across areas of their core business, but in particular gardening, which has led to the expansion of their operations in this sector and a flurry of new customers.

This is a chance for consumers to win big prizes to help them relax and enjoy their pond more. All they have to do is enter the barcode from any Tetra pond food or care products into the free prize draw website to find out immediately if they are a winner. There are a wide selection of prizes to choose from including 500 bottle coolers, 100 cool box radios, 25 waterproof DAB digital radios, barbecues and garden furniture. Shelf cards and banners highlighting the promotion will be available from Tetra to help drive sales and build excitement.

The key to the success of Maxicrop's Houseplant Fertilisers is the unique blend of seaweed extracts that the range contains.

Maxicrop Original seaweed extract has long been a firm favourite with keen gardeners and commercial growers - for both conventional and organic growing - according to Maxicrop's marketing director, Shane Deaville.

When something major goes wrong at your garden centre you need it fixed in the shortest period of time. This was the case for Castle Gardens, who in 2008 had a huge fire at their premises. Castle Gardens chose Red Cherry Design and Shop Fitting to supply their shelving and fitments and haven't looked back since.

In keeping with the theme of the 2009 Garden Leisure Equipment Exhibition [GLEE] "Alive with Opportunity" another of the many new features at the event this September will be the "Innovators Zone".

Finia^TM heavy duty water feature reservoirs are the top in their category for durability, stability and performance. This is what you buy if you want the job done properly, no problems with collapsing or caving in, no need to remove the feature for pump access as it has a dedicated hatch.

Walter Harrisons & Sons has extended its range of Garden Friends die-cast bird feeders with the launch of a new range of Copper plated feeders, backed by a lifetime quality guarantee. Each feeder comes with a free full colour Garden Bird window sticker to encourage consumers to attract more birds into their garden, resulting in more enjoyment and more sales of different bird feeds for the retailer!