Perrywood Wins Big at The National Garden Centre Awards

Last Month Perrywood Garden Centre celebrated amazing successes at the National Garden Centre Association (GCA) Conference and Awards. This is the garden centre industry’s most prestigious event of the year in the U.K.
The event, held on Tuesday 23 January at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon, saw Perrywood named 4^th out of 100 Garden Centres in the ‘Garden Centre of Excellence’ ranking table. This is an impressive achievement for Perrywood, which held 11^th place in 2017.
The GCA carries out an annual inspection of all its members and uses this to compile the rankings table. The association adds up scores for a number of elements including customer service, merchandising, creativity and innovation, quality and range of products and much more. Perrywood were praised for their plant displays and use of colours; impactful and easy buying displays within their gift shop and their commitment and focus on continuing to deliver a point of difference for their home grown plants grown on site in their large nursery.
Additionally, Perrywood came 2^nd in the Ruxley Rose Award for destination centres (above £4m turnover). This award recognises the best plant areas and the standard is extremely high. The inspectors were very impressed with Perrywood’s creativity and quality of plants.
Not only this, Perrywood was announced winner of the prestigious Worrall Cup for its ‘Green Up Your Home’ campaign. The Worrall Cup celebrates the garden centre with the best marketing expertise, campaign or initiative. The entries were judged by an independent panel of marketing experts and selected Perrywood as a result of the centre’s commitment to unique creativity, outstanding innovation and commercial success.
Alan Bourne, Owner, comments: “We are very pleased to have moved to 4^th place in the GCA league table. This is an amazing achievement and is a testament to the hard work and determination of our entire team. Second place in the Ruxley Rose Award reflects our passion for plants and the knowledge and enthusiasm the team has. Both the plant area and plant production nursery teams should be incredibly proud of this accolade.”