The Garden Centre Association June 2025 Barometer of Trade (BoT) out today (July 23) shows good year-to-date sales despite the hot weather’s effect on gardening activity during the month.
Five of the 13 categories listed performed well when compared to 2024 with member garden centres citing catering, up at +4.17%, as June’s best performer.
Peter Burks, GCA CEO, explains: “As expected the terrific heat and continuing dry weather had an impact on gardening sales resulting in a small drop in sales for the month. Fortunately, the year-to-date figure is still showing a healthy +7.71%.
“Outdoor plants were still the biggest category in terms of total sales by some distance but were down almost 12% when compared to last year. Fortunately, gifts, clothing, foodhall/farm shops and catering all showed a nice increase restricting the overall negative figure.
“The recent drop in temperature and some welcome rain will hopefully boost July’s figures too. But all the garden centres I’ve visited recently are delighted to have had a much better year weather-wise so far and are definitely very positive about the year’s sales to date.”
