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Cowells, Langlands, Burleydam and Barton Grange are the toast of the north in GCA awards
Professionalism is causing a shift from the sheds
Full results from GCA North East Regional Awards 2015
North West GCA Awards reults in full
The Midlands GCA results are in
Haskins scoop a 1,2,3 at the South Thames Regional Awards
Full results from North Thames GCA Regional Awards
The Old Railway Line are on the fast track
Squires Hersham and Haskins Roundstone are tops in South Thames GCA
Sunshine and Burston are best in North Thames GCA
Planters and Webbs win main GCA Midlands regional awards
Wales & West Best Centre winners are The Old Railway Line and Monkton Elm
Mr F's new POS reassures grow-your-own novices
The Greatest Outdoor Living Sales gold winners to be presented at spoga+gafa
HTA Futures is the venue for The Greatest Garden Centre Team Awards 2015
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Assistant Manager - Independent Garden Centre - Surrey
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Pots of sales in the Bestsellers chart
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Sunshine and Burston are best in North Thames GCA
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Sunshine Garden Centre (above) picked up the Best Garden Centre and Burston Rose & Garden Centre (below) clinched the Best Destination Garden Centre at the GCA North Thames Regional Awards on Monday. The presentations took place at Perrywood Garden Centre & Nurseries.

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Iain Wylie, Chief Executive of the GCA, said: “I’d like to say a huge congratulations to all of our members who took home awards during the first regional awards meeting. A massive ‘thank you’ also goes to Perrywood Garden Centre & Nurseries for hosting such a fantastic evening.
 
“Other awards included Best Customer Service and Best Environment and Community, which both went to Burston Rose & Garden Centre.
 
“Squires Garden Centre – Twickenham scooped the award for Best Creativity and Innovation and the Most Improved site was won by Hilltop Garden Centre.”
 
Presenting her findings during the event was inspector Liz Hutson.
 
The full results for the North Thames region GCA area awards are as follows for the GC and DGC categories:
 
Best Garden Centre: Sunshine Garden Centre (GC) and Burston Rose & Garden Centre (DGC)
 
Best Customer Service: Burston Rose & Garden Centre
 
Best Environment and Community: Burston Rose & Garden Centre
 
Best Creativity and Innovation: Squires Garden Centre - Twickenham
 
Most Improved: Hilltop Garden Centre
 
Best Restaurant: Thurrock Garden Centre (GC) and Frosts at Woburn Sands (DGC)
 
Garden Products Retailer: Squires Garden Centre - Shepperton (GC) and Poplars Nursery Garden Centre (DGC)
 
Best Indoor Lifestyle: Squires Garden Centre – Shepperton (GC) and The Burford Garden Company (DGC)
 
Best Outdoor Living: Sunshine Garden Centre (GC) and The Van Hage Garden Company – Great Amwell (DGC)

Inspectors Choice Award:  Alton Garden Centre for their BBQ area
 
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 Best Garden Centre and Best Destination Garden Centre awards went to the members that scored the highest overall mark in the area in their annual inspections.
 
The top scoring centres overall, nationally, in both the Destination Garden Centre and Garden Centre categories will be re-inspected before the titles of Garden Centre of the Year and Destination Garden Centre of the Year are announced at the GCA annual conference taking place in January 2016.
 
Iain added: “We are really looking forward to the remaining awards meetings taking place this week.
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