MAGAZINE

The huge news this issue is that we have somehow managed to settle on the four big winners of the 2025 Garden Centre Catering Awards! I know our panel found it extremely hard, as the standard and volume of entries was so high, so a huge thank you to everyone who entered. Our experts were extremely impressed by all of your efforts.

Despite much deliberation (and even, possibly, a few arguments!), we have, however, settled on a final four. Our hearty congrats go out to British Garden Centres, Monkton Elm Garden Centre, Thetford Garden Centre and Waterperry Gardens. You can find out just what this fab four did to distinguish themselves by turning to page 12.

In a similar vein, we also profile the last of our 2024 winners – the wonderful Café Batsford Arboretum in the Cotswolds – on page 18. We will, of course, be interviewing the above foursome throughout the impossibly futuristic sounding 2026.

This leads me nicely to my last – but certainly not least – point. I would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year on behalf of all of us here at H2O Publishing. Have a great break and we look forward to seeing you again in the spring!