Competitions


Colour Heroes activity pack

Colour Heroes create high-quality, educational and affordable visitor resources to engage families in their visit to farm parks, leisure sites and restaurants. We offer a complete service, taking your ideas, to create original concepts and produce hand-illustrated, engaging artwork and printed resources, including character creation, activity packs, illustrated maps, signage, explorer trails, books, teacher guides and a whole range of paper-based, tabletop activities.


E Braai Lit with Grill authentic BBQ flavour

Designed for modern living, the electric E Braai has everything you need to cook the very best authentic BBQ feasts, including smart technology to guarantee the best sear and taste.

The cooking temperature can be pre-set thanks to an innovative auto-temperature control function and the digital LED accurately displays the cooking temperature via a sensitive probe that sits directly underneath the grill surface. The perfect barbecue for apartments, balconies patios or terraces; especially those where fire restrictions limit the use and storage of gas barbecues. The electric 2.3kW…


Ryobi One+ Edge Trimmer

Ryobi was the first domestic tool manufacturer to pioneer the idea of powering all tools with the same battery.  The Japanese firm’s One+ range now has more than 150 tools, covering all your DIY and garden needs, making it the market leader for cordless DIY equipment.

Garden Trade Specialist is now giving you the chance to win an 18V Cordless Edger worth…


The Mudder Tall Boot Collection - chance to win

Mudder Tall Boots by The Original Muck Boot Company who have been dedicated to providing boots and footwear for the past two decades. All their products are created with the customer in mind, and using specially crafted materials and designs - because after all, there are way more than four seasons. The Original Muck Boot Company are driven to create and provide the most reliable boots on the market, so that you can battle any given task and always feel protected, productive and comfortable, no matter the situation or weather.

All…


Ryobi One+ hedge trimmer

Ryobi was the first domestic tool manufacturer to pioneer the idea of powering all tools with the same battery.  The Japanese firm’s One+ range now has more than 150 tools, covering all your DIY and garden needs, making it the market leader for cordless DIY equipment.

Garden Trade Specialist is now giving you the chance to win an 18V Cordless LINEA 50cm Hedge Trimmer bundle worth more than £100.


Love the outdoors join Great British Garden Festival

If you’re visiting RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year, The Great British Garden Festival has an incredible prize on offer! Simply sign up to join as a member while you’re at the show and you will automatically be entered into a draw to win £1,000 worth of garden products kindly supplied by their Partners! 

Membership costs just £10 and gets you all sorts of exclusive access to savings on products as well as entry into gardens and events all year round. 

Love plants? Love gardening? Love days out? The Great British Garden Festival is for you! 

Join…


Moose Fleece Throw Competition

With Christmas fast approaching we’re giving readers of the Garden Trade Specialist an exclusive opportunity to WIN Portfolio Home’s super soft, warm & cosy fleece throw worth £29.99 (RRP)!

This beautiful Moose fleece throw not only offers a stunning elegant design of white moose’s silhouette on a traditional red festive background, it’s also made to keep you warm and cosy on these cold winter nights with a lined Sherpa fleece reverse. Portfolio Home’s Moose fleece throw is the perfect accessory to add to your home this winter as not only will it keep you warm and toasty it’s…


Landscape Show Competition

The LANDSCAPE Show is collaborating with MIND Birmingham and the London College of Garden Design to introduce a new ‘Wellness Community Garden” competition at their trade event this year.

The LANDSCAPE Show is looking for entrants to design a wellness community garden that demonstrates the ability of gardens to promote well-being and recovery, especially supporting and challenging the stigma of mental distress. Over the past 18 months in particular we have all heard how outdoor space and physical exercise is so important to our well-being and mental health. The designs will aim to…


The Mini Christmas tree from BlossomingGifts

As Christmas is approaching faster than we think we are always looking for new creative ways to decorate pour homes a mini Christmas tree is perfect for decorating small rooms, or corners and alcoves of living spaces that are in need of some festive decor.

The best kind of small tree designs are tabletop Christmas trees, which won't take up any floor space and can pretty much sit anywhere in the home – whether it's on your fireplace mantel, sideboard, coffee table, windowsill, kitchen island, or on your desk at home and work.


Wilsons pet food – a selection of bags

If you’re looking to stock a more nutritional option than regular pet food, then Wilsons Pet Food Cold Pressed range is exactly that – because the lower temperatures used in the manufacturing process mean more of the food’s nutrients are retained within the food than regular kibble which is cooked at much higher temperatures. 

Digestion is also aided as the dry food produced using the Cold Press process has a greater bulk density meaning less is fed by volume – it therefore breaks down quicker in the stomach helping to prevent bloating.  

Newly launched, Wilsons Premium Raw…


Rockfish Walkabout wellies

Rockfish Wellies are giving away a his and her’s pair of wellington boots – value £199.98 – to one lucky Garden Trade Specialist reader.

The "Walkabout" boots, which have an RRP of £99.99, are aptly named to provide all day comfort and durability. Rockfish Walkabout wellies

  • Handcrafted from 1st quality rubber
  • 100% waterproof adjustable gusset…

Padlocks Abus competition

To be in with a chance of winning two top-quality padlocks, enter our competition in conjunction with Nothing But Padlocks.

The two padlocks, Abus 701B/45 – a brass, double-bolted padlock with a sealed lock body – and the smaller Abus 155/30, with combination for keyless entry, will be given away to one lucky reader.

Jonathan Low-Hang from Nothing But Padlocks tells Garden Trade Specialist about why every garden centre needs to use AND stock top-quality locks.

What range of products do you stock for…


Ashford bistro garden furniture set in duck egg blue

Enter our competition to be in with the chance of winning an Ashford bistro garden furniture set in duck egg blue from Wyevale Garden Centres. The set is worth £70 and includes a table and two chairs, which are ideal for when you want to enjoy your morning coffee out in the garden or catch up with a friend on a summer afternoon. Because the furniture comes in a beautiful duck egg blue, it will also do a great job of bringing an extra dash of colour…


Haskins Garden Centre Football table

Garden Trade Specialist has teamed up with Haskins Garden Centre to offer this Wooden Tabletop Football Game (£24.99) – perfect for bringing children together, getting them away from digital toys and back to basics! It’s also the ideal game to bring adults together, inspire a bit of fun and games and light-hearted competitive spirit.

Christmas is now an established and integral part of the garden centre offering, providing significant sales in the second half of the year. The popular garden centre group anticipates welcoming 1 million visitors…


Haskins Fruit Tree

Haskins is encouraging gardeners to make the most of National Tree Week with a new competition to win a tree for the garden, school or local community.

National Tree Week takes place from Saturday November 25 until Sunday December 3. First initiated in 1975, it is the UK’s largest tree celebration annually which launches the start of the winter tree planting season.

Haskins is celebrating this festival of trees by offering customers the chance to win their own Ornamental or Fruit Tree, up to the value of £50. The winner will be chosen the week before National Tree Week in…


home and garden app

Mobile app development company Apps4U invites small businesses across the country to enter their free app development competition, with a prize worth nearly £2000.

Mobile apps are a major component in modern living. 85% of people say they prefer using apps over mobile websites, mainly because they streamline the user experience and make the business/service more accessible and easier to engage with. Given the popularity of apps, their benefits for a small business…