BGC Harrogate, Squires Badshot Lea, Cooks, Birkacre, Pugh’s Radyr, Barton Grange and Busy Bee have picked up Greatest Garden Centre Christmas Team golds in GTN’s Greatest Christmas Awards, presented at Spring Fair on Monday. Kaemingk walked away with The Greatest Christmas Supplier gold.
Here are all the winners:
The Greatest Christmas Houseplant Team
GOLD AWARD: Haskins Snowhill
SILVER AWARD: Newquay
BRONZE AWARD: BGC Studley
FINALISTS: BGC Studley, BGC Tring, Blue Diamond Newbridge, Brimsmore Gardens, Dobbies Brighton, Dobbies Edinburgh, Dobbies Richmond, Gates, Haskins Snowhill, Klondyke High Legh, Newquay, Perrywood Tiptree, Whitehall Lacock
The Greatest Outdoor Plant & Christmas Tree Team
GOLD AWARD: Old Railway Line
SILVER AWARD: Pugh’s Radyr
BRONZE AWARD: Coolings, Rushmore Hill
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Planters Tamworth
FINALISTS: BGC Bournville, BGC Playhatch, BGC Winnerash, Brimsmore Gardens, Coolings, Rushmore Hill, Garsons Titchfield, Haskins Snowhill, Jacksons Boutique, Klondyke Astbury Meadow, Klondyke Mortonhall, Old Railway Line, Pengelly, Perrywood Sudbury, Planters Tamworth, Pugh's Radyr, Squires Badshot Lea, St Peters Worcester, Tong
The Greatest Gardening Gifts Sales Team
GOLD AWARD: Gates
SILVER AWARD: Blue Diamond Newbridge
BRONZE AWARD: Newquay
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Pugh’s Wenvoe
FINALISTS: BGC Bournville, Blue Diamond Newbridge, Castle Gardens Sherbourne, Fron Goch, Garsons Titchfield, Gates, Newquay, Pugh's Wenvoe
The Greatest Wild Bird Care & Pet Team
GOLD AWARD: Barton Grange
SILVER AWARD: Bents
BRONZE AWARD: Old Railway Line
FINALISTS: Barton Grange, Bents, Blue Diamond Newbridge, Garsons Esher, Garsons Titchfield, Groves Bridport, Old Railway Line
The Greatest Festive Retail Food Hall Team
GOLD AWARD: Pugh’s Radyr
SILVER AWARD: Garsons Esher, Old Railway Line
BRONZE AWARD: Barton Grange
FINALISTS: Barton Grange, Bents, Chessington, Garsons Esher, Klondyke Mortonhall, Longacres Bagshot, Old Railway Line, Pugh's Radyr, St Peters Worcester, Whitehall Lacock
The Greatest Festive Outdoor Living Team
‘The SOLEX Sizzle’
GOLD AWARD: Polhill
SILVER AWARD: Alton
BRONZE AWARD: Cambridge Home & Garden
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Newquay
FINALISTS: Alton, Cambridge Home & Garden, Chessington, Newquay, Old Railway Line, Polhill
The Greatest Festive Garden Centre Catering Team
GOLD AWARD: Woodlands, Kent
SILVER AWARD: Bents
BRONZE AWARD: Pughs Wenvoe & The Garden Kitchen
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Dobbies Tewkesbury, Haskins Snowhill
FINALISTS: Bents, Dobbies Tewkesbury, Haskins Snowhill, Holt, Jacksons Boutique, Munros Nurseries, Newquay, Pengelly, Pugh's Wenvoe, Squires Badshot Lea, The Garden Kitchen By Pugh's, Woodlands, Kent
The Greatest Christmas Marketing Team
GOLD AWARD: Barton Grange
SILVER AWARD: Pugh’s
BRONZE AWARD: Gates
FINALISTS: Barton Grange, Bosworths, Burton Latimer, Cooks, Fron Goch, Garsons Esher, Garsons Titchfield, Gates, Hall's Garden centre, Pugh's Radyr, Pugh's Wenvoe, The Garden Kitchen By Pugh's
The Greatest Garden Centre Christmas Video
GOLD AWARD: Old Railway Line
SILVER AWARD: Alton
BRONZE AWARD: British Garden Centres, Dobbies
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Pengelly
FINALISTS: Alton, Barton Grange, British Garden Centres, Dobbies, Keydell, Old Railway Line
Pengelly, The Grange, Tong , Wentworth
The Greatest Christmas Grotto Team
GOLD AWARD: Chessington
SILVER AWARD: Gouldings Santa Experience
BRONZE AWARD: Keydell
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Birkacre, Coolings Lifestyle, Ruxley Manor
FINALISTS: Barton Grange, Baytree, BGC Arcadia, Birkacre, Chessington, Coolings Lifestyle, Gouldings Santa Experience, Keydell, Ruxley Manor, Tong , Wentworth
The Greatest Christmas Supplier
GOLD AWARD: Kaemingk
SILVER AWARD: Gisela Graham
BRONZE AWARD: Smart Garden Three Kings
FINALISTS: Festive, Florasilk, Giftware Trading, Gisela Graham, Kaemingk, Premier Decorations, Richard Lang, Smart Garden Three Kings
The Greatest Group Small Centre Christmas Team
GOLD AWARD: BGC Harrogate
SILVER AWARD: BGC Studley
BRONZE AWARD: Klondyke Astbury Meadow
FINALISTS: BGC Bournville, BGC Braintree, BGC Burford House, BGC Charlbury, BGC Harrogate, BGC Playhatch, BGC Studley, Klondyke Astbury Meadow
The Greatest Group Large Centre Christmas Team
GOLD AWARD: Squires Badshot Lea
SILVER AWARD: Klondyke High Legh
BRONZE AWARD: Haskins Snowhill
HIGHLY COMMENDED : Dobbies Edinburgh
FINALISTS: BGC Woodthorpe, Blue Diamond Bridgemere, Blue Diamond Newbridge, Blue Diamond Van Hage, Dobbies Edinburgh, Haskins Snowhill, Klondyke High Legh, Klondyke Mortonhall, Klondyke Stokesley, Squires Badshot Lea, Tong
The Greatest Small Garden Centre Christmas Team
GOLD AWARD: Cooks
SILVER AWARD: Poundbury Gardens
BRONZE AWARD: The Grange
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Munro’s, Pengelly
FINALISTS: Bennybeg Plant Centre, Cooks, Munros Nurseries, Pengelly, Poundbury Gardens, The Grange, Whitehall Pewsey
The Greatest Mid-Sized Garden Centre Christmas Team
GOLD AWARD: Birkacre
SILVER AWARD: Glendoick
BRONZE AWARD: Woodlands, Kent
HIGHLY COMMENDED: MacKenzie & Cruikshank
FINALISTS: Birkacre, Bosworths, Burton Latimer, Brimsmore Gardens, Castle Gardens Sherbourne, Glendoick, Hall's Garden centre, Holt, Jacksons Boutique, Mackenzie & Cruickshank, Newquay, Pugh's Wenvoe, Silverbirch, Whitehall Whitchurch, Woodlands, Kent
The Greatest Large Garden Centre Christmas Team
GOLD AWARD: Pugh’s Radyr
SILVER AWARD: Wentworth
BRONZE AWARD: Garsons Titchfield
FINALISTS: Fron Goch, Garsons Titchfield, Old Railway Line, Pugh's Radyr, Wentworth
The Greatest Giant Garden Centre Christmas Team
GOLD AWARD: Barton Grange
SILVER AWARD: Gates
BRONZE AWARD: Perrywood Tiptree
FINALISTS: Barton Grange, Bents, Garsons Esher, Gates, Longacres Bagshot, Perrywood, Tiptree, Whitehall Lacock
Voted The Greatest Christmas Garden Centre Team
GOLD AWARD: Busy Bee (1st)
SILVER AWARD: Cooks (2nd)
BRONZE AWARD: Bosworths Burton Latimer (3rd)
HIGHLY COMMENDED (Top 20): Garden King (4th), Jacksons Boutique (5th), Gates (6th), Southwood Garden Centre (7th), Birkacre (8th), Old Railway Line (9th), Trowell (10th), Pughs Rady'r (11th), Planters Tamworth (12th), Munro's (13th) Keydell (14th), Newquay Garden Centre (15th), Summerhill (16th), Azure Garden Centre (17th), Hillmount Belfast (18th), Allbrighton BGC (19th), Planters Bretby (20th)
FINALISTS: Allbrighton BGC, Azure Garden Centre, Birkacre, Bosworths Burton Latimer, Bow Garden and Aquatic Centre, Braintree BGC, Brigg BGC, Busy Bee, Cooks, Ferndale, Garden King, Gates, Hillmount Belfast, Jacksons Boutique, Keydell, Munro's, Newquay Garden Centre, Old Railway Line, Pengelly, Perrywood Sudbury, Perrywood Tiptree, Planters Bretby
Planters Tamworth, Pughs Rady'r, Pughs Wenvoe, Roxton BGC, Southwood Garden Centre, Summerhill, Trowell, Woodthorpe BGC
The Greatest Christmas Award judges.
Watch out for The Greatest Christmas Awards photo tours of the centres in future issues of GTN Xtra, starting this coming weekend and in the next issue of GTN magazine.
See more pictures from the presentations in the gallery below....
