from Barnsdale and the NEC with Geoff Hamilton , Anne Swithinbank and Pippa Greenwood. This year, gardeners in Britain will spend a staggering El,500 million on their gardens and there has been a threefold increase in the figure this decade.
Every autumn, the National Exhibition Centre hosts an enormous display of gardening and leisure products where wholesalers and retailers can order stock for the next season. Geoff Hamilton and Anne Swithinbank went last
October to sort through the wealth of exhibits and find the latest products and ideas that will be finding their way into the garden centres now. Plus advice on disease control in the garden from Pippa Greenwood. Production assistants
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