DISPLAY IDEAS Aylett Nurseries won a Festive Plants team award for their stunning home grown Poinsettias which had zero travel miles from the nursery to the sales area. They were also the kings of Lemax for 2017, creating a crowd-pleasing display in their garden shop to pull customers through to Christmas.
All of the teams at The Old Railway Line got into the festive spirit, even out in the planteria where the ‘elfish’ plants team provided a warm welcome with a lit fireball to add that great aroma of buring wood smoke to the festive atmosphere. And the attraction of their award winning Pets team and Pet café means some dogs and their owners make extra special efforts to get there!
The biggest ‘wow’ of all the Christmas displays went to the Gold Award winning Silverbirch Garden Centre in Scotland. The way they create such an impact with so many great lines is amazing. Silverbirch were also making big sales of Candle Jewellery. Stags heads to adorn pillar candles were on sale at the tills for £7.99 each.
The simplest, but very effective, Christmas Lighting display we found was Fresh @ Burcot Garden Centre. They used garden obelisks to display the light sets on making it really easy to see the difference in the options available. Oh, and they sold out of obelisks too!
Next month Part 2: Grotto ideas
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