The unexpectedly prolonged cold weather cost small businesses £174million this March according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). 

La Hacienda, the Gloucestershire-based supplier of outdoor heating products and lanterns, has become the latest member of LOFA. 

This year's poor weather has taken a toll of sales within independent retailers across a wide diversity of product categories. 

Annual online sales at John Lewis have passed the £1bn mark - a year ahead of the retailer's forecast. 

A co-founder of Gordale Nurseries, which was a joint Gold winner of DIY Week's Garden Retailer of the Year award last year, has died. 

The home and garden plastics manufacturer has further improved and expanded its manufacturing capabilities with plans to install a 3 axis Co-ordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) at its 178,000sq ft facility in Banbury. 

British manufacturer Monument Tools awarded long service certificates to 11 employees who have clocked up a staggering 340 years of service between them. 

Robin Arora, 28, who runs Liverpool-based discount home store B&M Bargains with his older brothers Simon and Bobby, topped the Sunday Times' Young Rich List, despite sharing his £1.1bn fortune with his brothers. 

Dobbies Garden World in Melville, Edinburgh, will reopen tomorrow (Friday, April 19) with a brand new retail village offering 13 concessions within the outdoor space. 

Kingfisher, parent company to B&Q and Screwfix, has acquired 15 'Bricostore' home improvement sites in Romania from Group Bresson, a French retail company, for an undisclosed sum. 

Garden Centre Association (GCA) members are being invited to attend a meeting in June to discuss the peat issue. 

The Garden Centre Group hopes to recruit 120 young trainees into its horticultural apprenticeship programme in a bid to create the garden centre managers of the future. 

Shed of the Year sponsor Cuprinol recently scoured the nation to find the UK's oldest and most dilapidated shed, and is now opening a nationwide competition to find "the shed most in need of love". 

Vicky Nuttall, head of marketing at Forest Garden, has been voted in as the Garden Industry Manufacturers Association's new president. 

Failed Liverpool retailer Rapid Hardware went down owing £3m - and unsecured creditors will take a total loss. 

At a time when many businesses are buckling down and watching what they spend, tool brand Am-Tech has ploughed £100,000 back into the business to create a new-look showroom to support its brand refresh. 

Fledgling businesses lined up last week to impress a panel of seasoned judges from John Lewis in a bid to get their big break. 

Almost a third of shoppers have bought gardening equipment and DIY tools from a supermarket, according to new research. 

The bitterly cold weather kept shoppers indoors in March and slashed 5.2% off the year-on-year footfall figures 

Single-price retailer 99p Stores is to open its first outlet in Scotland over the next few weeks.