Grow Your Own magazine’s Great British Growing Awards returned to Glee, as part of Glee Gathering, and the 2020 winners have been announced.
The awards are all about recognising excellence within the gardening industry, with categories for tool companies, seed suppliers, garden writers, fruit nurseries and everything in between! Shining a light on those individuals and businesses who go the extra mile, the awards offer an insight into the most popular trends and collections for the year ahead.
Here are all the winners and runners up:
Most trusted celebrity gardener
GOLD: Monty Don
SILVER: Charles Dowding
BRONZE: Alan Titchmarash
Most inspiring vegetable garden to visit
GOLD: The Lost Gardens of Heligan
SILVER: RHS Wisley
BRONZE: Chatsworth House
Best gardening event
GOLD: RHS Chelsea Flower Show
SILVER: BBC Gardeners’ World Live
BRONZE: Malvern Spring Festival
Best kitchen gardening book
GOLD: Organic Gardening: The Natural, No-Dig Way, Charles Dowding
SILVER: Vegetable Garden Diary, Charles Dowding
BRONZE: The Kitchen Garden, Alan Buckingham
Most entertaining kitchen garden TV/radio programme
GOLD: Gardeners’ World
SILVER: Gardeners’ Question Time
BRONZE: Beechgrove Garden
Best online retailer
GOLD: Kings Seeds
SILVER: Thompson & Morgan
BRONZE: Suttons
Best fruit and veg seed range
GOLD: Kings Seeds
SILVER: Real Seeds
BRONZE: Thompson & Morgan
Best gardening organisation
GOLD: Royal Horticultural Society
SILVER: The National Allotment Society
BRONZE: Garden Organic Done
Best garden writer or blogger
GOLD: Charles Dowding
SILVER: Monty Don
BRONZE: Alan Titchmarsh
Best plug plant range
GOLD: Kings Seeds
SILVER: Thompson & Morgan
BRONZE: Sarah Raven
Best nursery/retailer specialising in fruit
GOLD: Kings Seeds
SILVER: Blackmoor Nurseries
BRONZE: Ken Muir
Best one-stop gardening shop
GOLD: Kings Seeds
SILVER: Dobbies
BRONZE: Thompson & Morgan
Best greenhouse brand
GOLD: Rhino
SILVER: Halls
BRONZE: Robinsons
Best polytunnel brand
GOLD: Premier Polytunnels
SILVER: Northern Polytunnels
BRONZE: Haygrove Tunnels
Best allotment planning product
GOLD: Charles Dowding’s Vegetable Garden Diary
SILVER: RHS Allotment Handbook and Planner
BRONZE: Allotment Month by Month
Best pest control product
GOLD: Nemaslug
SILVER: Vitax
BRONZE: Grazers
Best plant feed
GOLD: Tomorite
SILVER: Maxicrop
BRONZE: Westland
Best tool brand
GOLD: Spear & Jackson
SILVER: Wolf Garten
BRONZE: Burgon & Ball
Sponsors: Agriframes, Hozelock, Ken Muir, Pictorial Meadows, Premier Polytunnels, Rhino Greenhouses, Sea Spring Seeds, Spear & Jackson, William James & Co.