Destination Garden Centre of the Year Winner!
We’re delighted to announce we have won Destination Garden Centre of the Year in the Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) 2024 awards. Our team scooped the prestigious title for best large garden centre in the UK at a ceremony held at Da Vere Wokefield Estate in Reading on Tuesday 28th January.
The GCA represents more than 200 garden centres nationwide and each year rewards the centres that set the benchmark for the highest retailing standards within the industry.
Our managing director Guy Topping says: “What an achievement! It’s thanks to our team's hard work, passion and dedication that we have received this incredible honour. “Since the day we opened, we have been committed to delivering exceptional products and service to our customers. It’s wonderful to be rewarded for the enormous effort that goes into making our centre such a success. I couldn’t be more proud!”
The GCA awards recognises quality standards throughout the centre, not only of products and departments, but also its people and services. It follows an intensive annual audit, which records scores from more than 200 garden centres throughout the UK. Scores from the audit are collated to reveal regional winners, some of whom are revisited and re-audited in the rigorous assessment process.
As well as winning the overall top accolade, we were also named runner-up in the Plantaria (Ruxley Rose) prize for its outstanding outdoor plant area displays and in the GIMA Award for Best Garden Products Retailer.
Peter Burks, chief executive at the GCA, says: “We had a wonderful evening crowning our overall champion of champions. They have all been recognised for their amazing dedication to delivering the very best within our industry and they couldn’t be more deserving of these fabulous awards.”
