GTN Xtra - GTN Xtra – The Greatest Christmas Awards

It promises to be the Best Christmas Party of the Year as UK garden centres celebrate everything that's great about festive displays, plants, catering and Santa's Grottos. Yes, it's time to reveal The Greatest Christmas Awards at a special gala dinner at the Majestic Hotel in Harrogate on Sunday...

After visits to over 200 garden centres the votes for The Greatest Christmas Awards have been verified and counted, and all will be revealed on Sunday.

Tickets for the gala dinner have been selling fast as people now recognise the event as a highlight of Christmas festivities. There are just a few tickets left so if you want to be part of what promises to be a memorable and enjoyable evening, and rub shoulders with The Greatest Christmas Award winners then get your tickets now.

We look forward to seeing you at the party.

Buy your tickets on-line here

Brookside's grotto raises over £5,000 for Make A Wish

Brookside Garden Centre in Kent have raised an amazing £5,300 for Make A Wish from their Santa's Grotto and will be presenting a cheque to the charity at The Greatest Awards party night in Harrogate on Sunday.

The money was raised by Brookside from charging adults admission to their impressive grotto this Christmas.

Simon and Alison Shead are due to present the cheque to John Athwal, on behalf of Make A Wish, during the awards presentation at the Majestic Hotel in Harrogate.

Awards party night will have a rocking atmosphere

As well as recognising everything that's GREAT about garden centres at Christmas, The Greatest Christmas Awards party is a great place to have some fun. And to get the party ROCKING we've lined up one of the UK’s foremost 50′s/60′s tribute bands, The ROCKiTs...

With a musical repertoire spanning two full decades of the finest rock ‘n roll, the band are ready to entertain you with hits from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Elvis, The Kinks, The Who and many more.

The band’s talents have been well recognised and the guys have held a weekly residency playing at the world famous Cavern Club in Liverpool for the last two years.

More pictures of Garden Centre Christmas displays than have ever been published before

The GTN team and Greatest Awards Experts have already been out and about visiting garden centres throughout the country and have seen some brilliant Christmas displays. Here's a selection of the 2013 displays that are selling through now. Just click on the garden centre name to take you to their picture gallery:

Arcadia
Armitages Pennine
Barton Grange
Berwick
Baytree
Brechin Castle
Brookside
Caerphilly
Coletta & Tyson
Dobbies Inverness
Dobbies Kings Lynn
Dunbar
Eastfield
Garden Pride
Glendoick
Hetland
Highfield Garden World
Houghton Hall
Huntingdon Garden & Leisure
Langlands Leeds
Mains of Drum
Notcutts Tunbridge Wells
Old Railway Line
Raemoir
Ruxley Manor
Simpsons
Strikes Stokesley
Swanland
Torwood
Trowell
Van Hage Peterborough
Walkers Nurseries
Webbs of Wychbold

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