. . INDOOR GARDENING : GARDENING: The Horticulture Business: End of Summer Report . . The Horticulture Business: End of Summer Report By Ian Hodgson 7:00AM BST 01 Sep 2012 The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/9510223/ The-horticulture-business-end-of-summer-report.html . .The extreme weather of 2012 has taken its toll on the horticultural trade, but autumn sales should see gardeners benefit.
.This year the early Bank Holidays, so crucial to garden-centre business, were cold and wet, and gardeners lost the impulse to buy. Sales of bedding plants were badly hit, although water butts, slug pellets, weed and moss killers did phenomenally well.
.The horticultural trade is now looking to make up sales in autumn, so watch out for big promotions on plants and all sorts of sundries. Autumn is an excellent time for planting, and buying British will help our home industry. Bulbs are starting to sell, which is an encouraging sign.
.As Paul Hansord, MD of seed and plant retailer Thompson & Morgan says, the see-saw weather significantly affected gardeners' purchasing patterns and spend: "Sustained aberrant wet weather meant many gardeners were not able to get going. The hosepipe ban also had a depressive effect on demand as people were already thinking it would be hard to keep their gardens watered."
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