Top Awards for Millbrook's Garden Display at the Kent County Show
This is the second year that Millbrook have exhibited at the show but the first year that they have entered a show garden.
Pam Garrard, Visual Display Manager at Millbrook Garden Centre says, “It was a real pleasure to be part of the ‘Detling display team’. We were able to get some fantastic stock from the Millbrook Nursery, which meant making a display from Cottage plants was comparatively easy and fun to do. The quality and standard of plants was simply breathtaking, so the display looked amazing and full. We were delighted to win Top Gold and best Landscape and design awards....not bad for our first attempt!”
Kent County Show organisers said, “We judge all entries in the Flower Show to RHS standard. The ‘Top Gold’ is the highest award you can achieve. The judge (Jim Buttress gardening expert and judge from TV’s Great British Allotment Challenge) will look at the standard of plants, the composition of the display and the use of colour and texture. The KCAS Perpetual Challenge Cup for the best Landscape or Garden Display Exhibit is an additional award for the Flower Show also judged by Jim Buttress.
The Millbrook show garden has been re-created at the Millbrook Gravesend Garden Centre to inspire customers and the £175 prize money will be donated to Millbrook’s chosen charity for the year, Chyps Children’s Hospice care.
The business consists of three garden centres: Millbrook at Crowborough, East Sussex, which was founded in 1979, Millbrook at Gravesend, Kent, which opened in 1994 and Millbrook at Staplehurst in Marden, Kent, which became part of the family in March 2013.
For more information, please call Millbrook Garden Centre Gravesend, which is located on Station Road in Southfleet in Gravesend, Kent, on 01474 331 135.
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