Garden trade resilience despite extreme weather highlighted in new HTA full-year review
The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) releases its comprehensive market update report for December 2023 and the full-year state of trade review. Access and participation in gardening statistics are also included this month, using the results of our Annual Consumer Survey to provide unique industry insights.As reported throughout 2023, the horticultural sector faced record-breaking weather extremes, from the driest February in 30 years to the hottest June on record. December continued the trend, with mean temperatures and rainfall more than two times higher than in December 2022. Yet,