GCA member garden centres have been finding out which restaurants came out top in each of 6 regions of England and Wales in their annual garden centre audits.

And the winners are...

GCA Regional Best Restaurants - Garden Centres:

• Fron Goch – North West
• Armitage’s Birchencliffe – North East
• Stratford Garden Centre - Midlands
• Squires Garden Centre Shepperton – North Thames
• Newbridge Nurseries – South Thames
• The Old Railway Line Garden Centre – Wales & West

GCA Regional Best Restaurants - Destination Garden Centres:

• Bents Garden & Home – North West
• Armitage’s Pennine – North East
• Van Hage Peterborough - Midlands
• Frosts at Woburn Sands – North Thames
• Chessington Garden Centre – South Thames
• Endsleigh Garden and Leisure – Wales & West

The winners in the Scotland & Northern Ireland GCA Region will be announced on September 22^nd.

The awards are decided by the results of the annual inspections, which take place at all GCA garden centres. Garden centres have no advance warning about when their inspection will take place and they do not have the option to turn away the inspector.

The GCA represents nearly 200 garden centres nationwide.

Through sharing information and its inspection programme the GCA helps members to achieve high standards in customer service, plant quality and reliability.

For further information, please call 0118 930 8918 or visit www.gca.org.uk