The GTN e-mail inbox has been inundated in the past few weeks with notifications of Christmas openings at garden centres across the county and the Garden Radio team at Potting Shed Press have received plenty of last minute requests for Christmas music to be played for opening days.

Unfortunately we can't get to all of the opening days, but we will be out and about during November and early December visiting up to 100 centres that are nominated in GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards.  Entry nominations close at midnight tonight, so to be sure of a judges visit please use the form on at:  GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards 2026

GTN's editor was able to visit opening events over the past two weeks at Dobbies Peterborough, Blue Diamond Peterborough and the press preview afternoon at BGC Rugby and you can see our photo tours in stories below.

Meanwhile our West Midlands correspondent has sent us photos of past Christmas Greatest Gold Award winners Cooks Christmas 2026. See the gallery below