The Greatest Christmas Display award was strongly contested again this year with four garden centres picking up main awards – Jacksons Boutique (small centre), Fairways and All-in-One (joint winners, mid-sized centre), Bents (destination centre), Heighley Gate (group centre)...
Over 100 centres were visited by our panel of seven judges, who were looking not just for imaginative, attractive and sales boosting displays, but as always in these awards, for great teamwork.
Pictured below are: Jacksons Boutique, Bents and Heighley Gate.
Gold winners: Jacksons Boutique (small centre), Fairways and All-in-One (joint winners, mid-sized centre), Bents (destination centre), Heighley Gate (group centre)
Silver winners: Perrywood (mid-sized centre), Barton Grange (destination centre), Grosvenor (group centre)
Judges' Special Awards: Coletta & Tyson (The Greatest Christmas POS Signage), Garden Pride (The Greatest Christmas Entrance), Moulton College (The Greatest Christmas Displays using Danish Trollies), Poplars (The Greatest Christmas Humour), Winnersh (The Greatest Christmas Displays with Floods)
Finalists: All in One, Astbury Meadow, Barton Grange, Baytree, Bents, Birkacre, Brigg, Castle Gardens, Chessington, Coletta & Tyson, Eastfield, Endsleigh Garden & Leisure, Fairways, Ferndale, Garden Pride, Grosvenor, Heighley Gate, Highfield, Houghton Hall, Jackson’s Boutique, Lady Green, Langlands Shiptonthorpe, Melbick Garden & Leisure, Moulton College, Perrywood, Planters, Poplars, Spring, Squires Shepperton, Trelawney Wadebridge, Van Hage Peterborough, Wheatcroft, Whitehall Lacock, Winnersh
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Barton Grange were silver winners
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Silver also went to Perrywood
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There was a Judges' Special Award for Garden Pride
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Poplars also earned a Judges' Special Award
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Winnersh won a Judges' Special Award too