Figures from the Horticultural Trades Association's Garden Industry Monitor Retail Business Benchmark Survey reveal garden centre and nursery sales for the period March to May are up 10.2% on average.
Recessionary fears still remain going forward. Caroline Owen, Chairman of the HTA's Retail Management Group told the attendees to the recent retail management group meeting “Many garden retailers cut their costs earlier in the year in anticipation of tough times ahead. Now with an excellent sales season margins are currently looking very good.
"However, there is still concern about how this might be sustainable as the recessionary effects on the buying public begin to bite deeper.”
School gardening is seen as one of the driving forces behind the rise with, extra sales made as parents buy materials and products to replicate what their children are doing in school.
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