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Barton Grange Preston is the Destination Garden Centre of the Year
Cowell's picks up the coveted Garden Centre of the Year Award
Worrall Cup for the Best Marketing Campaign goes to Millbrook
Taylors Bulbs win Haskins Stewart Cup (Associate of the Year)
Poplars pick up another award – Garden Centre of Excellence – at GCA conference
The Bank of Dave is a highlight of the GCA Conference
Millbrook's Sue Allen steps down from GCA committee after 20 years
Full list of winners of the GCA Annual Inspection Awards
Work to start on Probus Garden Centre in March
Fun and frolics at the Industry Networks Beach Party
£9,600 raised as Pansies beat Cabbages in 4th Annual Greenfingers Challenge Cup
Carol Paris reveals how HTA and GCA are working together to promote gardening
GCA members urged to attend IGCA Congress in Ireland
Jude Law, David Tennant and other stars present the Garden Re-Leaf Day quiz for 2014
More pictures of Garden Centre Christmas displays than have ever been published before
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Barton Grange Preston is the Destination Garden Centre of the Year


Barton Grange Preston picked up another award on the final evening at the GCA Conference in Blackpool when they won the prestigious Destination Garden Centre of the Year...
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Cowell's picks up the coveted Garden Centre of the Year Award


Cowell's Garden Centre at Woolsington, Newcastle upon Tyne, capped a fine GCA Conference in Blackpool by picking up the coveted Garden Centre of the Year Award...
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Worrall Cup for the Best Marketing Campaign goes to Millbrook


Millbrook Garden Centre in Kent have won the Worral Cup for the Best Marketing Campaign or Initiative for their Millbrook Family scheme...
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Taylors Bulbs win Haskins Stewart Cup (Associate of the Year)


Taylors Bulbs were presented with the Haskins Stewart Cup (Associate of the Year Award) at the GCA conference...
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Poplars pick up another award – Garden Centre of Excellence – at GCA conference


Poplars were among eight garden centres to pick up a Garden Centre of Excellence Awards. The others were Barton Grange, Bents Garden & Home, Burston Garden Centre, Fairways Garden Centre, Ashbourne, Garsons Esher Garden Centre, Planters Garden Centre, Tamworth, Squires Garden Centre, Twickenham, Van Hage Great Amwell.
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The Bank of Dave is a highlight of the GCA Conference


Dave Fishwick, best known from Channel 4's 'Bank of Dave', was the final speaker of the GCA conference in Blackpool but was well worth waiting for, as he told delegates how he took on the "bullies" of the banking system by launching a bank for his home town of Burnley...
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Millbrook's Sue Allen steps down from GCA committee after 20 years


Millbrook's Sue Allen, who has been a member of the GCA committee on and off for 20 years, has stepped down from the GCA committee and said the time is right for younger members like her daughter Tammy Woodhouse to steer the association in future...
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Full list of winners of the GCA Annual Inspection Awards
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Barton Grange, Preston, were multiple winners when the Annual Inspection Awards were presented at the GCA winter conference at Blackpool on Monday. Poplars Garden Centre also picked up two awards...
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Work to start on Probus Garden Centre in March


Work is set to start on the first phase of a destination garden centre, restaurant and display gardens at Probus near Truro in Cornwall in March...
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Fun and frolics at the Industry Networks Beach Party


Fancy dress returned to the GCA conference in a big way for the Industry Networks Beach Party on Monday evening in the Hilton Hotel, Blackpool...
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£9,600 raised as Pansies beat Cabbages in 4th Annual Greenfingers Challenge Cup
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A staggering £9,600 was raised on the eve of the Garden Centre Association Winter Conference at Blackpool when a team of garden centres (Pansies) beat a side made up of suppliers (Cabbages) in the 4th Annual Greenfingers Challenge Cup.

The event, made up of a series of fun events followed by fish-and-chips and bingo, was the curtain-raiser for the two-day conference, with all the proceeds going the industry's charity, Greenfingers...
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