In This Issue
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
Horticultural / Plantarea Manager - Wiltshire
Wholesale Nursery Growing Supervisor - Herefordshire
Despatch Packhouse Manager - Herefordshire
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Cupar GC in Fife makes it centre No.5 for Caulders
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
Duke plants cedar to celebrate ‘Capability’ Brown anniversary
Stihl wants to sell cordless range through garden centres
TV gardener presents certificates to Birmingham youngsters
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Successful garden centres celebrate winning The Greatest Christmas Awards


The Greatest Christmas Awards were announced at a special party night in Harrogate on Sunday. All the winners received their accolades during the event organised by Garden Trade News and Garden Radio at the Majestic Hotel in the town...
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The Greatest Garden Centre Team at Christmas is Brookside
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Brookside struck gold in The Greatest Garden Centre Team at Christmas category, as voted for purely by garden centre customers...

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Haskins wins Special Judges Award


The Greatest Christmas Judgers Special Award went to Haskins Garden Centres...
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The Greatest Christmas Display winners are Silverbirch, Walkers Nurseries, Castle Gardens, Barton Grange and Fryers Garden Centre - Blue Diamond
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The Greatest Christmas Display award was strongly contested again this year with four garden centres picking up main awards – Silverbirch and Walkers Nurseries (small garden centres), Castle Gardens (mid-sized), Barton Grange (large) and Fryers Garden Centre - Blue Diamond (group)...

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The Greatest Festive Plants Team comes from Creative Gardens and Aylett Nurseries
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Creative Gardens Donaghadee and Aylett Nurseries picked up gold awards in The Greatest Festive Plants Team category...

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Hayes Garden World have The Greatest Christmas Sizzle
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Greatest Christmas Sizzle, awarded to acknowledge the efforts of garden centres selling barbecues to customers for cooking their Christmas turkey, was won by Hayes Garden World...
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The Greatest Festive Catering Team goes to Mains of Drum and Barton Grange
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Mains of Drum  and Barton Grange were winners of The Greatest Festive Catering Team with Munros Nurseries Garden Centre picking up the silver award...
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Brookside, Pughs Radyr and Chessington pick up The Greatest Christmas Grotto Team awards
Sponsored by Norfolk Leisure & The National Tree Company


There was strong competition in The Greatest Christmas Grotto Team category with Brookside, Pughs Radyr and Chessington picking up the gold award...

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Premier Decorations win The Greatest Christmas Supplier Award
Sponsored by Glee


It was a hotly contested affair in The Greatest Christmas Supplier category - voted for by retailers – and the final outcome was very close but Premier Decorations just pipped Kaemingk to the gold award...
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Bents pick up The Greatest Pet Christmas Team gold
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Gold in The Greatest Pet Christmas Team category has been won by Bents Garden & Home...
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Santa Special Awards to mark great teamwork


A number of Santa Special Awards were presented to garden centres whose teams had shown great enterprise at Christmas...
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Greatest Christmas Awards organised by the team from GTN
The Greatest Christmas Awards were organised by the team from Garden Trade News and Garden Radio...



From left to right: Mandy Davies, Rebbecca Dean, Alan Burdon, Trevor Pfeiffer, Neil Pope and Harry Sinclair.
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A Majestic party for finalists and guests
Finalists and invited guests gathered at the Majestic Hotel in Harrogate for The Greatest Awards Party...
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Over £1,500 raised for Greenfingers at party
 
Guests at The Greatest Christmas Awards party dug deep and raised a staggering £1,575 for the Greenfingers charity...
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Busy Harrogate Christmas & Gift Show


Harrogate Christmas & Gift extends a warm welcome to all exhibitors and visitors attending the 2017 show. The doors opened on Sunday
and if pre-registrations are anything to go by, you can expect another very busy show this year...
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