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Bord Bia Amenity Horticulture Quality Award Winners
- 21 February 2012
The National Amenity Horticulture Awards recognise and promote excellence across three key sectors of the industry – Garden Centres, Nursery Growers and Landscape Contractors. Bord Bia presented Quality Awards to 86 horticultural businesses, which have successfully achieved the standards as set out by its Quality Assurance Programmes.
This included fifty garden centres who achieved star ratings from 2 to 5 star gold, 12 Quality Approved Landscape Contractors, and twenty four Quality Approved Nurseries.
A number of special awards were presented on the night, as well as the overall category winners as follows:
3 Star Garden Centres
- Ashtree Garden Centre, Co Donegal
- Clonmel Garden Centre
- Connaught Golds in Ballahaderreen, Ballina, Ballinrobe, Claremorris, Rathscalon, Swinford
- Dairygold Midleton
- Gardenworld Kilquade
- Glanbia CountryLife in Dungarvan, New Ross, Monasterevin, Mountmellick, Fethard, Ballyhale, Kilmeaden, Tullamore
- Horkans Westport
- Hosfords
- Kean's Claremorris
- Kiernans
- McCarthy's Homevalue & Hardware
4 Star Garden Centres
- Clarinbridge
- Connaught Gold Sligo
- Glanbia Countrylife Castlecomer
- Glanbia Countrylife Dove Hill
- Greenbarn
- Kinsealy
5 Star Garden Centres, Achieving 80% Plus in Each Category
- Ballyseedy
- Fernhill
- Horkans Castlebar
- Lusks Co Meath
- Newlands Home & Garden Centre
- O'Meara's
5 Star Gold Awards - Consistently Achieving Above 80%
- Arboretum Lifestyle & Garden Centre
- Cois na hAbhann Garden, Home & Lifestyle Centre
- Orchard Home & Garden Centre
Garden Centre Special Awards
- Best Customer Service & Marketing - Arboretum
- Best Product Information & Signage - Orchard Home & Garden
- Best Plant Quality - Lusks Garden Centre
- Best Plant Merchandising - Cois na hAbhann
- Best New Entry - Glanbia Countrylife Dove Hill
- Best Plant Centre of the Year - Lusks Garden Centre
- Best DIY Garden Centre of the Year - Glanbia Countrylife Castlecomer
Best Local Plant Supplier as Voted By Garden Centres, Nominees;
- Rentes
- Youngs
- O'Connors
- Winners; O'Connors
Best Hardy Nursery Grower of the Year
- Highly Commended - Glenbrook
- Winner - Rentes
Best specialist grower of the year
- Highly Commended - O'Dowds
- Winner - O'Connors
Best Field Grown Tree Producer
- Highly Commended - Annaveigh
- Winner - Sap Nurseries
Best Herbaceous/Perennial Grower
- Highly Commended - Schram Plants
- Winner - Young Nurseries Ireland
Best Young plant/Liner Grower
- Pat Fitzgerald
Garden Centre of the Year (Small) - Cois na hAbhann
Aidan Cotter, Chief Executive, Bord Bia, Elaine Walsh, Liam Summers, Shane McEntee TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and Maria Nolan
Garden Centre of the Year (Large) - Arboretum
Aidan Cotter, Chief Executive, Bord Bia, Liam Kenny, Eamon Wall, Barry Doyle, Frank Doyle, Shane McEntee TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and Fergal Doyle
Landscaper of the Year - Sap
David McCormack and Paul Giles from Aidan Cotter, Chief Executive, Bord Bia and Shane McEntee TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Ornamental Grower of the Year - O'Connors
Aidan Cotter, Chief Executive, Bord Bia, Joe O’Connor, Shane McEntee TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Helen O’Connor
Source: Bord Bia
