We’ve
recently announced the regional winners of our annual Ruxley
Rose competition.
The Ruxley Rose award focuses on our members’ outdoor plant areas
and recognises excellent quality and range of plants.
Peter Burks, our Chairman, explained: “We’d like to say a huge
congratulations to our Ruxley Rose regional winners, the standard this year was
really high. The South Thames winners were Coolings The Gardener’s Garden
Centre in Kent in the Destination Garden Centre category (DGC) and Squires
Hersham Garden Centre in Surrey in the Garden Centre category (GC).
“In Wales and the West, Trelawney Garden Centre in Wadebridge,
Cornwall (DGC) and The Old Railway Line Garden Centre
in Powys (GC) came top. Van Hage Great Amwell
in Ware,
Hertfordshire (DGC) won in North Thames.
“Van Hage Peterbrough in Cambridgeshire (DGC) and Planters
Tamworth in Staffordshire (GC) are the Midlands winners, Armitages Pennine in
Huddersfield (DGC) and Cowell’s Garden Centre in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (GC) are the North East winners
and Barton Grange in Lancashire (DGC) and Lady Green Garden Centre in
Merseyside (GC) are the North West winners.”
The Ruxley Rose competition focuses specifically on our members’
outdoor plant areas and is regarded as one of the most prestigious awards.
Peter added: “This year our judging criteria was different, with
50% of the overall mark coming from the spring inspections, which happened
earlier this year and 50% from the recent visit.
“A new form was used for the autumn inspections, which looks
similar in style to the spring inspection form but it had a number of criteria
that were unique to enable the judges to assess creativity and commerciality.
“The top scorers from our regional winners will now be judged
nationally by Roger Crookes and the national winners in both the DGC and GC
categories will be announced at our conference in January.”
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