GTN's Greatest Awards will be revealed at Spring Fair tomorrow (Monday) and the winners will receive their honours on the Inspiring Retail stage in Hall 6 at 5pm.
After weeks of meetings, debate and discussion the judges have finally decided upon the winners of GTN’s Greatest Christmas Awards 2021 and we will be announcing the winners and presenting the Gold, Silver and Bronze awards on the Inspiring Retail Stage at Spring Fair in Hall 6 on Monday 7th February at 5:00pm, where we’ll also have some drinks and snacks available for all those who can join us for our celebration of all that’s great about garden centre Christmas retailing.
If you are not able to attend Spring Fair on Monday the Awards will be streamed Live via the Spring Fair app which can be downloaded from the Spring Fair website: https://www.springfair.com/show-app-visitor
Our team of judges had a truly wonderful time visiting all of the 57 garden centres nominated in this year's awards and were overwhelmed by the excellence of garden centre retail teamwork once again, despite continuing difficult circumstances. We look forward to celebrating that excellence with as many garden centre teams as possible on Monday evening.
Huge thanks goes to our sponsors: Woodlodge, Elho, DCUK, Solex Global Journey, Glee and Kaemingk for making the judges' face to face visits possible this year.
Here's the list of the centres who were finalists across the 14 categories that were judged this year:
Albrighton – BGC, Altons, Aylett Nurseries, Barton Grange, Bents, Blue Diamond Cadbury, Blue Diamond Derby, Blue Diamond Newbridge, Bosworths, Braintree – BGC, Brigg Garden Centre – BGC, Burford House – BGC, Cherry Lane Podington, Downtown Garden Centre, Fron Goch, Garsons Esher, Gates Garden Centre, Gouldings, Groves Bridport, Hetland, Hillmount Cheshire, Lakeside Plant Centre, Little Dobbies Richmond, Millbrook Gravesend, Newquay Garden Centre, Pengelly Garden Centre, Perrywood Sudbury, Perrywood Tiptree, Planters Bretby, Planters Tamworth, Pughs Radyr, Pughs Wenvoe, Rosebourne – Aldermaston, Rosebourne – Weyhill, Sapcote Garden Centre, Silverbirch, Squires Badshot Lea, Studley – BGC, Tates South Downs, Thatcham – BGC, The Old Railway Line, Webbs Wychbold, Woodbank Garden Centre, Woodlands Garden Centre
And here's the list of categories they are vying to be The Greatest in:
- The Greatest Christmas Houseplant Team
- The Greatest Outdoor Plant and Christmas Tree Team
- The Greatest Festive Food Hall Team
- The Greatest Christmas Sizzle Team
- The Greatest Christmas Pets Team
- The Greatest Christmas Community or Charity Initiative
- The Greatest Social Media Christmas Marketing Idea
- The Greatest Garden Centre Christmas Video
- The Greatest Winter Garden Care Sales Team
- The Greatest Covid Safe Christmas Team
- The Greatest Group Garden Centre Christmas Team
- The Greatest Small Garden Centre Christmas Team
- The Greatest Mid-Sized Garden Centre Christmas Team
- The Greatest Large Garden Centre Christmas Team
To whet your appetite for the galleries of garden centre Christmas photos we'll be bringing you in GTN Xtra and GTN magazine over the coming weeks and months, here are photos from one of our early judging visits to Burford House - BGC.
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