Welcome to The Garden Works. Kevin Waters, David Gale and John Connel bring years of experience in the garden market to provide solutions to retailers, manufacturers and marketeers.

We work in a number of areas and find that the crossover of skills often enhances the final result. Our aim is always to exceed your expectations and we like to think that our enthusiasm and committment is infectious!!

Garden Centre Staff Training & Development
A wide range of training courses and packages specially tailored to individual requirements. With garden retailing and its special environment these courses are delivered in their language to bring out the best in your staff.

These have been developed and honed over a number of years and are used by many of the major garden centres in the UK and Eire.

Garden Centre Training Modules
12 specially customised modules designed to enable you to operate your own in-house training with the minimum of effort.

The modules cover Insecticides and Fungicides, Weedkillers, Lawncare, Bulbs, Seeds and Propagation, Houseplants, Garden Tools, Fertilisers, Irrigation, Outdoor Plants, Customer Care and Selling Skills.

Each module is complete with full course notes, a tutors guide, bullet points and a set of questions and answers to monitor progress. With this system, training can take place at the height of the season when it will be most effective.

Product Development
The combined experience of both garden manufacturing and retailing over many years provides a firm base to develop exiting new products. Manufacturers who use this service often have good concepts which need further development before marketing. The Garden Works carries out trials, physical development and with its contacts in the industry can help find marketing partners.

Promotions & Demonstrations
One of the key services provided to garden retailers and manufacturers is an in season menu of fully supported days. These can be product related, launching a new line for example. Or garden centre sponsored themes which provide entertainment and information to consumers and greatly increase cash through the till.

Garden Helpline
The comprehensive query handling service for the garden industry.

Gardenmedia.co.uk
As a retailer, your customers demands are increasingly determined by what they read, hear and watch in the media. The plethora of gardening titles and the "fashion" nature of gardening today requires you to keep updated with the latest in plant or gardening item. Gardenmedia.co.uk is an information service that watches, listens and reads the media for you, providing short focussed reports that allow you to remain bang up to date without all the effort.

As a manufacturer you may be interested in sponsoring this service as a way of reaching your customers on a regular and easy basis. Please contact us for details.