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Busy Bee and Southwood Farm jump up the Greatest Awards customer vote charts. Cooks are still No 1 with 10 days of voting still to go

As the 102 judging visits come to an end, customer voting for The Greatest Christmas Garden Centre Teams continues a pace with over 12,000 votes having now been made.

 

At the top of the Christmas Greatness Voting chart, Cooks of Stourport hold onto their lead, but Busy Bee on the Isle of Wight are hard on their heels climbing up the chart last week to No 2 and Southwood Garden Centre in Cottingham have jumped from No 20 up to No 14.

 

This weeks Top 50 Christmas Garden Centres, as voted for by customers:

  1. Cooks
  2. Busy Bee
  3. Bosworths Burton Latimer
  4. Jacksons Boutique
  5. Garden King
  6. Pughs Radyr
  7. Birkacre
  8. Old Railway Line
  9. Gates
  10. Keydell
  11. Planters Tamworth
  12. Munro’s
  13. Summerhill
  14. Southwood Garden Centre
  15. Hillmount Belfast
  16. Trowell
  17. Azure
  18. Albrighton BGC
  19. Planters Bretby
  20. Pughs Wenvoe
  21. Perrywood Sudbury
  22. Brigg BGC
  23. Ferndale
  24. Bow Garden Centre and Aquatics
  25. Roxton BGC
  26. Perrywood Tiptree
  27. Woodthorpe BGC
  28. Harrogate BGC
  29. Tarporley BGC
  30. Ongar BGC
  31. Pengelley Garden Centre
  32. Fron Goch
  33. Tring BGC
  34. Braintree BGC
  35. Sprowston BGC
  36. Stokesley
  37. Arcadia BGC
  38. Bridgenorth BGC
  39. Newton Regis BGC
  40. Shipley Park BGC
  41. Bosworth at Elton
  42. Irton BGC
  43. Newquay
  44. Brockworth BGC
  45. Ramsgate BGC
  46. Carr Gate BGC
  47. Bournville BGC
  48. Thatcham BGC
  49. Charlbury BGC
  50. Chipperfield BGC

So far a total of 280 garden centre teams have been voted for by their customers.  In alphabetical order the centres just outside the Top 50 at the moment are:

 

Aberdeen Dobbies, Abridge Garden Centre, Altrincham Dobbies, Andover Dobbies, Antrim Dobbies, Ashford Dobbies, Astbury, Atherstone Dobbies, Aylesbury Dobbies, Ayr Dobbies, Barton Grange , Beaconsfield Dobbies, Bell Plantation, Bents, Bernaville Nurseries, Bicester Avenue, Bickerdikes, Birchencliffe BGC, Birtley Dobbies, Bold Heath BGC, Bolton BGC, Boston Dobbies, Braehead Dobbies, Brambridge Park, Bressingham BGC, Bridgemere Blue Diamond, Bridgnorth BGC, Brighton Dobbies, Bromsgrove BGC, Burford House BGC, Burford, Burnside, Byrkley, Cadbury Blue Diamond, Cadnam Dobbies, Cambridge Home & Garden, Cannock Dobbies, Canterbury Chartham, Carlisle Dobbies, Carmarthen BGC, Carpenders Park, Castle Gardens, Chapel Garden Centre, Charlecote BGC, Cherry Lane Beverley, Cherry Lane Podington, Chesterfield Dobbies, Chilton BGC, Cirencester Dobbies, Codsall & Wergs, Colleta & Tyson, Cosford, Coton, Coventry BGC, Cowells, Crawley BGC, Derby Blue Diamond, Derby Dobbies, Dundee Dobbies, East Bridgeford Blue Diamond, East Durham BGC, Edinburgh Dobbies, Elm Farm Florist & Gift Shop, Endsleigh Blue Diamond, Enfield BGC, Fairways Ashbourne, Fermoys Blue Diamond, Fosseway Blue Diamond, Fryers Blue Diamond, Gailey Dobbies, Garden Wise, Garforth, Garsons Titchfield, Gilberdyke, Gillingham Dobbies, Gloucester Dobbies, Gordale, Gordon Riggs, Gosforth Dobbies, Goulds, Halls, Hare Hatch Dobbies, Harlestone Heath Dobbies, Harlow Blue Diamond, Harrow BGC, Haskins Ferndown, Haskins West End, Hatton BGC, Havant Dobbies, Hayes, Heathhall, Hemel Hempstead BGC, High Legh, Hillier Syon, Hillier Verwood, Hillmount Ards, Hillmount Bangor, Hillside Farm Nursery, Hitchin BGC, Hockley Market, Hollybush , Holme for Gardens, Horncastle BGC, Hornsea BGC, Horsham BGC, Houghton Hall, Hudsons Plant Centre, Inverness Dobbies, Jacksdale, Jamesfield , Kings Lynn Dobbies, Kings, Lakeside Plant Centre, Lanark Dobbies, Langlands Shiptonthorpe, Le Friquet Blue Diamond, Leicester Dobbies, Lelant Dobbies, Lewes BGC, Leyland BGC, Liverpool Dobbies, Livingston Dobbies, Louth BGC, Lower Morden Blue Diamond, Lytham St Annes BGC, Mackenzie & Cruickshank, Mappleborough Green , Marple Dobbies, Matlock Blue Diamond, Meadowcroft, Mere Park Blue Diamond, Milngavie Dobbies, Mirfield, Moreton Park Dobbies, Morpeth Dobbies, Mortonhall, Nailsworth Blue Diamond, Newbank, Newbridge Blue Diamond, Northampton Dobbies, Notcutts Norwich, Notcutts Rivendell, Notcutts Woodbridge, Nuyard Country & Garden Centre, Okells, Osterley BGC, Pacific Nursery, Paddock Wood BGC, Paradise Park, Pennells Cleethorpes, Pennells Lincoln, Pennine Dobbies, Peterborough Blue Diamond, Peterborough Dobbies, Playhatch BGC, Ponteland Dobbies, Poplar, Poplars, Portsmouth Dobbies, Preston Dobbies, Pulborough BGC, Radway Bridge , Raglan, Rake Blue Diamond, Reading Dobbies, Redfields Blue Diamond, Reighton Nursery, Royston BGC, Rugby Dobbies, Ruxley Manor, Sanders Blue Diamond, Shenstone Dobbies, Shepton Mallet Dobbies, Shrewsbury Dobbies, Smiths Baginton, Southport Dobbies, Springfields Blue Diamond, St Peters, Stanton Nurseries, Stanway BGC, Stapleton Dobbies, Staverton Nursery, Stevenage BGC, Stirling Dobbies, Stockton Dobbies, Stratford upon Avon Dobbies, Studley BGC, Swansea Dobbies, Swarkestone Nursery , Swindon Dobbies, Tansley Barn BGC, Taverham, Telford Dobbies, Tewkesbury Dobbies, The Barn, The Grange , Thornbury Dobbies, Thurrock, Tingley, Toftwood, Tong, Towneley, Trelawney Blue Diamond, Trentham Blue Diamond, Tunbridge Wells, Upminster BGC, Van Hage Blue Diamond, View Garden Centre, Waresley Park, Weaver Vale, Webbs Wychbold, Wentworth, Where Next Garden Centre, Whitegates, Whitehall, Wilton House Blue Diamond, Wimborne BGC, Winnersh BGC, Woburn Sands Emporium, Wolseley Bridge BGC, Woodbank, Woodborough BGC, Woodbridge Dobbies, Woodcote Green Dobbies, Woodlands Dobbies, Woodmansey, Worcester Blue Diamond, Worcester, Wrest Park, Yarnton Home & Garden, York Dobbies.

 

With voting continuing through until close of business on Thursday 21st December 2023 there's still plenty of time to get more votes for your teams.  Remember we will be announcing some regional winners as well as the overall winner when all of GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards are announced and presented on the Retail Inspirations Stage at Spring Fair; Monday 5th February, 5:00pm. 

 

All the resources needed to get your customers voted can be found here using this link

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