As Glee celebrates 50 years, members of the industry and GTN readers over the past four months have been nominating their suggestions for Glee's 50 Year Hero's.  Now, the nomination lists are closed and open for voting by GTN and Glee Daily News readers until midnight on Tuesday 3rd September 2024 with the results being announced at 5:00pm on The Stage at Glee on Tuesday 10th September, just before the Glee New Product Awards.

• Most Influential Person of the past 50 years, vote here
• The Character of Glee's 50 years, vote here
• Hero Product of the past 50 years, vote here
• Hero Plant of the past 50 years, vote here

Top to bottom, left to right: 

John Ashley, Edward Conroy, Brian Evans, Warren Haskins, Nigel Long, Nicholas Marshall, Paris Natar, Caroline Owen, John Ravenscroft, Alan Roper, Norman Sellers, Glen Sheldrake, John Stanley, Guy Topping.

Left to right, top to bottom: 

Sue Allen, Derek Bunker, Nick Davies, Michelle de Lavis-Trafford, Boyd Douglas-Davies, Jackie Eades, Simon Fox, Anthony Harker, Stuart Kitchen, Nigel Poyner, Peter Seabrook, Geoff Wooldridge.

Also nominated: George Mold, Nick Page

Left to right, top to bottom: 

Drip Feeders, Garden Solar Lights, Gardman Wild Bird Care, Harmony Gardens MP Compost, Hozelock Connector System, Kelkay bagged aggregates and POS, Lotus Pebble Pool, Miracle Gro, Slug Gone – Wool slug pellets, The first Gro-Bag launched by Fisons, VegTrug, Wildlife World Solitary Bee Hotel, Wood Pellet BBQ grills.

Left to right, top to bottom: 

Astrantia, Choisya 'Sundance', Hebes, Hydrangeas, Kinder Plants, Pre-Packed Flower bulbs, Scabious Butterfly Blue, Spirea Walbertons Magic Carpet, Surfinia Petunias

The garden retail industry’s most anticipated event, Glee, is poised to mark a monumental milestone as it celebrates its 50th anniversary at NEC Birmingham on 10-12 September...

Online registration for Glee is live, enabling buyers and retailers to get online and book their free ticket for the UK’s leading garden retail exhibition...

Glee has announced the rebranding of the Glee Innovators Zone to Glee Firsts. Since its inception in 2009, the Innovators Zone has been an essential part of Glee, dedicated to showcasing fresh talent, groundbreaking ideas, and the latest innovations in garden retail...

"It makes people smile, people like my shirts.  It's because they are floral shirts that makes them smile, and that's the wonderful thing about gardening, it makes people happy..."

All Glee 2024 exhibitors are reminded that the deadline for FREE entries into the Glee New Product Showcase and Awards, orgainised by the GTN Team, is midninght on Wednesday 4th September.

Exhibitors can submit up to 3 new products per category using the entry form on the Glee Exhibitor Zone website.  Those products then need to be delivered to the New Product Showcase in the link area between Halls 8 & 9 between 1:00pm and 5:00pm on Monday 9th September ready for the initial judging which takes place on Monday evening this year.

If exhibitors have any queries about their entries, please contact GTN Editor Trevor Pfeiffer: trevor@pottingshedpress.co.uk, 07973 504214.

Altico continues to demonstrate its strength as a competitive Landscape product partner, with a ‘different’ approach that is proving to yield them and their customers sales increases of up to 35%...

Meadow View Stone invites customers to join us at our 2024 Glee stand (8F50-7A51), where innovation meets expertise...

Westland Horticulture, home to a diverse portfolio of brands including Boost, Resolva, Kent & Stowe, Peckish, and Unwins, is gearing up for this year’s 50th anniversary Glee trade show...

GTN September 2024 - In this Bumper Glee Preview issue:

• Westland Glee Preview Special
• Successful integration at AMES, GTN interviews CEO Paul North UK
• GCA Regional Results, winners from the 2024 inspections
• Derian House, a new Greenfingers Children’s Hospice Sensory garden
• GTN’s Glee 2024 Show preview starts here
  • Glee floor plan and exhibitor list
  • What’s on in the Glee sectors
  • Glee Exhibitor News – Latest products and services
  • Fandango Fire Tools at Glee
  • Under one roof at The AMES Companies UK
  • Floral Thursday FUNdraising at Glee
  • Eyes on the gift-wrapping market with Woodmansterne
  • Tildenet – a partner of choice
  • Landmark year for Hozelock
  • For that perfect lawn – Johnsons Lawn Seed
• GTN Planteria - Floral Fantasia and Mr Fothergill’s trials
• GTN Planteria – Ball helps retailers sell more plants
• Join the Vitavia family
• PATS 2024
• LOFA Viewpoint – SOLEX 2024 a resounding success
• New lines from Museums & Galleries
• HTA Viewpoint – For a stronger future
• GIMA Viewpoint – See you in person soon

Woodmansterne are busy preparing for what’s set to be another fantastic Glee, where they’ll be exhibiting collections from their newly launched Gift Packaging category, as well as showcasing their usual range of beautiful greeting cards...

Evergreen Garden Care is making industry-leading changes whilst focussing on the needs of its customers and consumers, exhibited in its move to 100% peat-free, and calls to make the RSS legislation...

If you attended Spring Fair earlier this year you may have recognised a familiar face in Hall 8, though the product on display may have surprised you. Well known amongst garden retailers for its recycled rubber garden landscaping products amongst, now is the time to introduce Primeur’s alter ego – Mighty Mats...

The best of home, gift and clothing suppliers are gearing up to join the Glee community at the NEC, Birmingham. Many companies exhibiting under the Home, Gift & Clothing banner are exclusive to Glee this season, ranging in size from artisan British producers to some of the biggest suppliers in the business and nationwide buying groups.

As the Glee exhibition rapidly approaches, the show’s exhibitors have been sharing their latest news...

Glee has announced that The Underground Podcast has come onboard as official podcast partner for this year's highly anticipated garden retail exhibition...