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Garden Centre
A garden centre (American English spelling; U.S. nursery or garden center) is a retail business that primarily sells plants and related products for Home gardening, domestic gardening. Gardening centers usually revolve around outdoor home improvement and décor, selling anything from plants to outdoor ordainments. It evolved from the concept of a retail plant nursery, offering a broader range of outdoor products and additional on-site facilities. Today, garden centres typically source their plants from specialist nurseries rather than Plant propagation, propagating them on-site. In addition to plants, garden centres may offer a variety of other products and services, including Home decor retailer, homeware, Gift, gifts, and Coffeehouse, cafes. Europe Garden centres across Europe play a significant role in supporting the region’s Horticulture, horticultural interests, catering to both amateur gardeners and professional Landscaping, landscapers. These centres typically of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almondsbury
Almondsbury () is a large village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, England. It is situated on the A38 road in the Avon Green Belt north of Bristol city centre. It is adjacent to junction 16 of the M5 motorway and Almondsbury Interchange, where the M4 motorway, M4 and M5 cross. It is part of the Bristol Built-up Area. The civil parish also includes the villages of Hortham, Gaunt's Earthcott, Over, South Gloucestershire, Over, Easter Compton, Compton Greenfield, Hallen, Gloucestershire, Hallen and Berwick, Gloucestershire, Berwick. The village is split by a steep hill, part of the escarpment overlooking the Severn floodplain. At the bottom of the hill is Lower Almondsbury where a pub and hotel, The Bowl Inn, is situated. South Wales, the Forest of Dean, the River Severn and Severn crossing, both Severn Bridges are visible from the higher parts of the village, which consists mainly of ribbon development along the A38 and has more of an urban characteristic. Governanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compost
Compost is a mixture of ingredients used as plant fertilizer and to improve soil's physical, chemical, and biological properties. It is commonly prepared by Decomposition, decomposing plant and food waste, recycling organic materials, and manure. The resulting mixture is rich in plant nutrients and beneficial organisms, such as bacteria, protozoa, nematodes, and fungi. Compost improves soil fertility in gardens, landscaping, horticulture, urban agriculture, and organic farming, reducing dependency on commercial chemical fertilizers. The benefits of compost include providing nutrients to crops as fertilizer, acting as a soil conditioner, increasing the humus or Humic acids, humic acid contents of the soil, and introducing beneficial microbes that help to suppress pathogens in the soil and reduce soil-borne diseases. At the simplest level, composting requires gathering a mix of green waste (nitrogen-rich materials such as leaves, grass, and food scraps) and brown waste (woody ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
QD (retailer)
QD Stores Limited (trading as Quality Discounts and QD) is a British independently-owned discount retailer operating in the United Kingdom, primarily in East Anglia and the East Midlands regions. Products stocked include a mixture of items for the home and garden, basic groceries and a range of clothing and footwear. The company also run Cherry Lane Garden Centres. History The first QD Stores branch was opened in Norwich in 1985, with the initials QD standing for ''quality discounts''. During the 1990s QD Stores purchased the small department store Lathams of Potter Heigham, which it still operates under the original name. It also established Cherry Lane Garden Centres in 2001, which by 2008 had become the eighth biggest UK gardening centre group. The number of QD Stores locations has grown relatively slowly since 1985. Notable changes to the store estate include the opening of eight new stores in former Woolworths locations following that company's closure in 2009. However ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notcutts
Notcutts Garden Centres Ltd. is a private limited company. The family-owned group operates 19 individual garden centres across England. Notcutts also owns one of the UK's largest rose specialists (Mattocks). Notcutts was founded in Woodbridge, Suffolk, in 1897, and remains a family-owned business. Their first retail garden centre was set up in Woodbridge. Products from Notcutts range from plants to furniture and most Notcutts stores across England include departments such as planteria, indoor and outdoor furniture, indoor plants, pets and a restaurant area. The Notcutts garden centres also have indoor shops which sell household products and other gifts. History The Notcutts Garden Centres head office stands on land which was originally owned by Woodbridge Priory, dissolved by Henry VIII. The grounds were purchased from the Crown by Thomas Seckford, the Woodbridge benefactor and then passed into the hands of the Carthew family. A nurseryman called Thomas Wood purchased the lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Diamond Garden Centres
Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB color model, RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB color model, RGB (additive) colour model. It lies between Violet (color), violet and cyan on the optical spectrum, spectrum of visible light. The term ''blue'' generally describes colours perceived by humans observing light with a dominant wavelength that's between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres. Most blues contain a slight mixture of other colours; Azure (color), azure contains some green, while ultramarine contains some violet. The clear daytime sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering#Cause of the blue colour of the sky, Rayleigh scattering. An optical effect called the Tyndall effect explains Eye color#Blue, blue eyes. Distant objects appear more blue because of another optical effect called aerial perspective. Blue has been an important colour in art and decoration since ancient t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Garden Centres
British Garden Centres (legally incorporated as Woodthorpe Hall Garden Centres Ltd.), is a British chain of garden centres based in Alford, Lincolnshire, England. By 2022, it operated over sixty locations. It is the UK’s largest garden centre operator by number of sites. History The company was started by Charles Stubbs in 1990. Its first garden centre was Woodthorpe Hall, built on a farm. In 2010, it acquired its fifth garden centre. In 2018, the firm operated ten garden centres. In 2019, the company acquired 37 garden centres from Wyevale Garden Centres. In December 2019, the firm completed its acquisition of Hillview, a chain of eight garden centres. In March 2022, the company changed its logo, with the new design incorporating a red butterfly. The logo formerly had a poppy A poppy is a flowering plant in the subfamily Papaveroideae of the family Papaveraceae. Poppies are herbaceous plants, often grown for their colourful flowers. One species of poppy, '' Papaver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dobbies Garden Centres
Dobbies Garden Centres Limited (styled as dobbies) is a British chain of garden centres based in Lasswade, Scotland. It was formerly the biggest garden centre operator in the United Kingdom, for a time, operating as many as 77 stores, some of which it acquired from the previous biggest garden centre chain, Wyevale. History The business was founded in 1865 by James Dobbie, who created a seeds business named Dobbie & Co. in Renfrew, Scotland. After being awarded the Royal Warrant for Gardeners and Nurserymen to the Royal Household, the company expanded into a seed catalogue business, where it built up a customer base of 50,000 over the following century. In 1969 the company expanded out of its Scottish base into England, and was floated on AIM in 1987. Up until 1984 Dobbies continued to operate principally as a seed merchant. It was then bought out by David Barnes, managing director of Waterers. Between 1984 and 1989 Dobbies opened five new garden centres in Scotland. The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Economies Of Scale
In microeconomics, economies of scale are the cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to their scale of operation, and are typically measured by the amount of Productivity, output produced per unit of cost (production cost). A decrease in unit cost, cost per unit of output enables an increase in scale that is, increased production with lowered cost. At the basis of economies of scale, there may be technical, statistical, organizational or related factors to the degree of Market (economics), market control. Economies of scale arise in a variety of organizational and business situations and at various levels, such as a production, plant or an entire enterprise. When average costs start falling as output increases, then economies of scale occur. Some economies of scale, such as capital cost of manufacturing facilities and friction loss of transportation and industrial equipment, have a physical or engineering basis. The economic concept dates back to Adam Smith and the idea o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shopping Center
A shopping center in American English, shopping centre in English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, spelling differences), shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza, or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof. The first known collections of retailers under one roof are marketplace, public markets, dating back to ancient times, and Middle Eastern covered markets, bazaars and souqs. In Paris, about 150 Covered passages of Paris, covered passages were built between the late 18th century and 1850, and a wealth of Arcade (architecture)#Shopping arcades, shopping arcades were built across Europe in the 19th century. In the United States, the widespread use of the automobile in the 1920s led to the first shopping centers consisting of a few dozen shops that included parking for cars. Starting in 1946, larger, open air centers anchored by department stores were b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Class
The middle class refers to a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy, often defined by occupation, income, education, or social status. The term has historically been associated with modernity, capitalism and political debate. Common definitions for the middle class range from the middle fifth of individuals on a nation's income ladder, to everyone but the poorest and wealthiest 20%. Theories like "Paradox of Interest" use decile groups and wealth distribution data to determine the size and wealth share of the middle class. Terminology differs in the United States, where the term ''middle class'' describes people who in other countries would be described as working class. There has been significant global middle-class growth over time. In February 2009, ''The Economist'' asserted that over half of the world's population belonged to the middle class, as a result of rapid growth in emerging countries. It characterized the middle class as having a reasonable amo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
