Adapt or Die: the evolution of garden centres according to three global experts

Green Retail / Greenline · IT|Article|24 February 2026

Adapt or Die: the evolution of garden centres according to three global experts

Greenline introduces the Adapt or Die series to Italian readers along with the three authors behind it. John Stanley has advised the sector since its origins fifty years ago, has written extensively on garden retailing and works in 35 countries from a base in Western Australia. Sid Raisch, based in California, has worked with US garden centres for many years and brings a habit of challenging conventional thinking. Dries Jansen owns Garden Center Advice with his partner Fred de Rijcke — an international advisory firm based in the Netherlands that has worked on garden centres from Iceland to Dubai. The article sets out what the series will cover across the year: why the independent garden centre has to change now, what specifically has to change, and why.

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