winners gallery

Congratulations to the 2011 National Winners!

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Small Garden Centre

Gisborne Nursery, VIC

Located in Gisborne this quality garden centre began six years ago when owners Chris Doyle and Gary Wright decided it was time to start their own business.  Gisborne Nursery stocks a variety of unique plants and garden accessories with inspirational display creating a unique and appealing customer experience.

Medium Garden Centre

Mittagong Garden Centre, NSW

Mittagong Garden Centre is the Southern Highlands’ leading garden centre offering friendly and helpful advice. They stock a full range of nursery products and include an enviable range of quality roses and camellias. There is a large range of garden pots, giftware and home decorations as well as a fantastic selection of wall art for inside or out.

Large Garden Centre

Van Loon’s Nursery, VIC

Van Loon’s Nursery is not just a garden centre it’s a destination. The nursery is in a semi rural area on the Bellarine Peninsula. The Bellarine Peninsula is a rapidly expanding area that attracts families to the newer estates and retires who are looking for seaside retirement. The changing nature of the population means Van Loon’s has to cater for many groups of people, with such a varied customer base they are able to keep knowledge and horticultural skills honed.

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Small Production Nursery

Dreamtime Wholesale Nursery, VIC

Dream-time Wholesale Nursery is an Australian evergreen tree grower which began in 1987. Dreamtime supply in excess of 600 varieties and have gained great knowledge and expertise in growing outdoor species that suit Australian conditions. Dream-time Wholesale Nursery strives to provide all their clients quality, service and value for money.

Medium Production Nursery

Speciality Trees, VIC

Speciality Trees is a wholesale production nursery located on 21 acres in Narre Warren East. The company has a 34 year reputation for supplying quality-grown material satisfying landscaper, designer and council requirements with advanced trees.

Carrying over 170 lines, the company prides itself in producing superior material, focusing on the optimum development of a trees structure and root ball to ensure the best possible results post planting.

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Large Production Nursery

Alpine Nursery Alstonville, NSW

Alpine Nurseries is a large wholesale nursery with locations in Dural in Sydney, in Alstonville in the Northern Rivers region of NSW and in Brisbane.

The business supplies plant material to a broad range of businesses, with the largest group being landscape contractors and designers but with significant sales to garden centres, local Councils, developers, and other wholesale nurseries.

 

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Best Propagation Nursery Nursery

Mansfield's Propagation Nursery, VIC

Mansfield’s Propagation Nursery consider themselves one of Australia’s leading propagators growing a wide range of over 1000 varieties of trees, shrubs, grasses and perennials annually of both native and exotic lines. Mansfield’s work closely with plant breeders, collectors and plant marketing companies locally and internationally to bring new and exciting varieties to the Australian market.

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Best Government Nursery

Parkswide-City of Whitehorse, VIC

The ParksWide Nursery is owned and operated by the City of Whitehorse - a local government organisation in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. ParksWide is a best practice wholesale production Nursery growing mostly local indigenous plants for use within the City of Whitehorse by council, contractors and residents, they produce over 100,000 plants per annum, 80% of which are indigenous to the City of Whitehorse.

Marketing Award

Landsdale Rose Gardens, WA

Landsdale Rose Gardens is a small rose production nursery North of Perth operated as a husband and wife partnership.

With the demise of independent retail Garden Centres and a diminishing wholesale target market, the business has required to become innovative in its approach to products it has on offer in an attempt to maintain and grow market share.

Landsdale Rose Gardens has won the 2011 Marketing Award with their innovative Slim Dusty rose campaign.

 

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Community Award

Eden Gardens, NSW

Eden Gardens communicate regularly with their 16,500 club members and in store information is provided to their 30,000 monthly visitors, about their community initiatives, increased awareness and support for the organisations they work with. The community, who are involved, have benefited knowing they are “making a difference” in the lives of others, who are less fortunate then themselves, through their contribution as volunteers and attendance at the community events.

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Environment Award Retail

Eden Gardens, NSW

Eden has taken significant steps towards environmental sustainability through their facilities, programs, people and management of water, fertilizer and waste. Community and education involvement is integral to Eden. The environmental initiatives at their North Ryde site are being used as a model for developing environmental and sustainability programs in both the Queensland and Victorian stores.

Environment Award Production/Growing Media

Provincial Plants and Landscape, ACT

Provincial’s team are empowered by their environmental ethos and are committed to improving air, soil, water quality and increasing biodiversity and habitat by propagating and planting appropriate species in the right way by acting consciously to choose products and services that are eco friendly.

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Training Award

Mansfield’s Propagation Nursery, VIC

Mansfield’s believe in a culture of cross departmental training so they can swing staff into different departments to help with the workload a seasonal business has to deal with. Mansfield’s encourages all staff to look for off the job training such as short courses, further education, industry development, or any other course they feel can help their personal and professional development which in turn benefits the business.

Supplier Award

Greenfingers Potting Mix, QLD

Green Fingers Potting Mix has been established at Nerang on the Gold Coast since 1983 as a family owned business. Green Fingers Potting Mix produces potting media from propagating mixes to bagging mixes in bulk and bags, they also specialise in customised blends to suit the individual needs of the grower, the landscape industry and government departments.

Green Fingers Potting Mix prides themselves in producing the highest quality potting media available and all mixes exceed Australian standards.

 

 

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Young Leader: Ken Bevan

Alpine Nurseries, NSW

 

 

HALL OF FAME

 

 



Important Dates

ENTRIES OPEN:
July 9, 2010

ENTRIES CLOSE:
August 23, 2010

SUBMISSION JUDGING:
August – September 2010

STATE ONSITE JUDGING:
September – November 2010

STATE PRESENTATION NIGHTS:
12 November – 4 December 2010

NATIONAL ONSITE JUDGING:
January – March 2011

NATIONAL PRESENTATION:
1 April 2011, Melbourne

Awards Primary Contacts

NSW/ACT
Bob Wynyard - 02 9679 1472

QLD
Don Scotts - 07 3277 7900

VIC
Alan Hollensen - 03 9576 0599

SA
Geoffrey Fuller - 08 8372 6822

WA
Emma Iddison - 08 9358 4811

NT
Jane Dellow - 08 8983 3233

TAS
Karen Brock - 03 6244 7977

For more information on awards please contact Natalie Walker on
02 9876 5200