We have announced today (July 27, 2015)
the names of the finalist garden centres in our re-vamped Ruxley Rose
competition.
Instead
of asking for entries this year, the garden centres with the top scores in the
spring bedding and hardy nursery stock categories from our spring inspections
have now been put through for autumn judging.
Nationally
the top 10 centres in both the Garden Centre and Destination Garden Centre
categories, 20 in all, will be revisited in September.
The
finalists in our Garden Centre category, in no particular order, are: Fairways Garden
Centre – Ashbourne, Evesham Garden Centre and Planters at Bretby in our
Midlands region; Cowell’s Garden Centre in the North East and Sunshine Garden
Centre and Squires Garden Centre, Stanmore, in our North Thames region and in
Scotland, Mains of Drum Garden Centre, Brechin Castle Garden Centre, Garden
Wise Plant & Garden Centre and Caulders.
In the Destination Garden Centre category
our finalists are: Planters Tamworth in the Midlands; Burston Garden Centre,
Squires Garden Centre, Twickenham, Perrywood Garden Centre and Poplars Nursery Garden
Centre in North Thames; Bents Garden & Home and Barton Grange Garden Centre
in the North West; Simpsons Garden Centre and Raemoir Garden Centre in Scotland
and Coolings Nurseries in our South Thames region.
Congratulations
to those garden centres and their teams and good luck and best wishes to them
all for the next stage of the judging process.
We
announced the changes to the arrangements for this particular national members’
competition in January.
Our
Chief Executive, Iain Wylie, said: “We appreciate it’s not been easy for
members to find the time to specifically enter this competition in the past due
to the nature of the industry and its seasonality, linked to the timing of the
entry submission we previously required.
“Plants
are still an essential part of our members’ offerings and takings and autumn is
a key planting time.
“Our inspectors encourage garden centres
to have living labels, to colour theme stock and to maximise on their plant
expertise among many other things.”
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