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Successful garden centres celebrate winning The Greatest Christmas Awards
The Greatest Garden Centre Team at Christmas is Brookside
Haskins wins Special Judges Award
The Greatest Christmas Display winners are Silverbirch, Walkers Nurseries, Castle Gardens, Barton Grange and Fryers Garden Centre - Blue Diamond
The Greatest Festive Plants Team comes from Creative Gardens and Aylett Nurseries
Hayes Garden World have The Greatest Christmas Sizzle
The Greatest Festive Catering Team goes to Mains of Drum and Barton Grange
Brookside, Pughs Radyr and Chessington pick up The Greatest Christmas Grotto Team awards
Premier Decorations win The Greatest Christmas Supplier Award
Bents pick up The Greatest Pet Christmas Team gold
Santa Special Awards to mark great teamwork
Greatest Christmas Awards organised by the team from GTN
A Majestic party for finalists and guests
Over £1,500 raised for Greenfingers at party
Busy Harrogate Christmas & Gift Show
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CBE for RHS's Sue Biggs in New Year honours list
Briers helps young designer's Christmas wish come true
Phil Burgoyne joins Garland Products/Worth Gardening
Groen-Direkt introduces houseplants for 2017
Students must get DCF scholarship applications in by 31 January
Pink dusters sales raise £10,200 for breast cancer charities
Award winning designer to speak at Hillier wholesale days
Neudorff doubles production of new seaweed extract
New Posh Bird Box has more room for feathered families
Stewart to put new planters under media spotlight
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CBE for RHS's Sue Biggs in New Year honours list

RHS Director General Sue Biggs was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year’s Honours 2017, for services to the environment and horticulture.

Sue has been the society’s DG since 2010, having previously headed up travel company Kuoni for 25 years.

Biggs has transformed the 212-year-old gardening charity, increasing the reach of its community gardening campaigns to enrich lives and make the UK more beautiful, growing its membership to 467,000, inspiring more people to garden, and embarking on a £160 million investment programme into the future of horticulture.

This investment, designed to create a more sustainable and better society, includes the creation of a major RHS fifth garden in Salford, urban gardens in cities, more research into pests and diseases and direct support for community gardening.

Biggs chairs the Ornamental Horticulture Roundtable Group, a cross-industry action group that works collaboratively to raise the profile of horticulture to Government and meets regularly with Defra Ministers.

Biggs said she was “extremely proud” to receive a CBE. “I see this also as recognition of the impact that gardening and horticulture can have to make the UK a happier, healthier and better place to live. I feel very fortunate to work in an organisation with such remarkable people promoting something I feel so passionate about, and this award belongs as much to them as me.”

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