2016: (Gold) Fiddleheads Garden Center, Dalton, GA (Gold) Larson's Garden Center, Burlington, CT (Silver) Lammscapes/Lamm Gardens, Jackson, WI (Silver) Van Atta's Greenhouse & Flower Shop, Haslett, MI (Merit) Backbone Valley Nursery, Marble Falls, TX (Merit) Dutch Mill Greenhouse, Marysville, OH (Merit) Water Flow Productions, Purvis, MS.2017: (Gold) Mesquite Valley Growers Nursery, Tucson, AZ (Silver) Wingard's Market, Lexington, SC (Merit) The Garden Mart, Mukwonago, WI (Merit) Breezy Hill Nursery, Salem, WI.2018: (Gold) DeWayne's, Selma, NC (Gold) Garden*Hood - Plant Atlanta, Atlanta, GA (Gold) The Gardens at The Ridge, Kerrville, TX (Silver) Hicks Nurseries, Westbury, NY (Silver) Lurvey Garden Center, Des Plaines, IL (Merit) Country Bumpkin Garden Center, Mundelein, IL (Merit) Dammann's Garden Company, Indianapolis, IN (Merit) Guilford Garden Center, Greensboro, NC (Merit) Leaf & Petal, Birmingham, AL (Merit) North River Greenhouse & Landscaping, Alamosa, CO (Merit) Oakland Nursery, Columbus, OH (Merit) Plumline Nursery, Murrysville, PA.2019: (Gold) Monarch Landscaping & Garden Center, Auburn, IL (Silver) Echter's Nursery & Garden Center, Arvada, CO MRT Lawn & Garden Center, Venice, FL (Merit) Prairie's Edge Garden Center, Bowling Green, MO.The winners are unveiled at the Independent Garden Center Show (IGC Show) in Chicago, Illinois, every year. The best entries are selected and given one of these honors: Gold Award, Silver Award and Merit Award. A panel judges the entries based on the bathroom's creativity and comfort to the customer's overall shopping experience. Awards Įvery year, GCA hosts the Best Garden Center Bathroom Awards recognizing independent garden centers with the best store restroom designs. In October 2016, GCA had 144 active member firms and 22 associate members with a sincere interest in improving the business of retailing in garden centers. GCA is the primary forum for information, education and training that promotes the exchange of ideas between member firms.
GCA's commitment is to ensure the long-term success and sustainability of the locally owned independent garden center. Recent history has taken the tour to Nashville, TN Seattle, WA Norfolk/Virginia Beach, VA Portland, OR Milwaukee, WI San Francisco, CA central Ohio and Detroit, MI. GCA puts on a summer tour of garden centers in different regions of the United States each year in June.
Active members must have a definite location of business with appropriate facilities to properly care for and display plants.
Regular members are limited to independent retail firms to whose primary purpose is to sell live plants to the public. GCA Summer Tour-goers bring back retailing inspirations from touring indie garden centers in San Francisco, CA.
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