Last night (Tuesday 8th July 2025) Coolings The Gardener’s Garden Centre were honoured to host the Garden Centre Association (GCA) Regional Awards Ceremony. The GCA is a UK organisation that ensures high standards in garden centres, members are inspected every year to ensure they offer great plants, products and friendly advice.
Garden Centre Award Winners 2025
Award Winners
Team members across our four sites in Kent and East Sussex were delighted to attend and be presented with six awards at the Garden Centre Association (GCA) South East meeting, held at The Gardener’s Garden Centre on Tuesday 8th July. In addition to the awards, both Wych Cross and The Gardener’s Garden Centre were recognised as ‘Centres of Excellence’.
Coolings The Gardeners Garden Centre
- Winner! 1st place for Garden Centre of the year for South Region
- Winner! 1st place for Customer Service
- 2nd place for Best Garden Centre Plant Area
Coolings Wych Cross
- 3rd place for Local Garden Centre of the year for South Region
- 2nd place for Customer Service
- 3rd place for Best Local Garden Centre Plant Area
The Coolings Team
Dwayne Ross, Managing Director of Coolings, said: “We’re delighted to have received these awards, recognising the hard work our teams put into creating a fantastic garden centre experience for our customers. Although we have enjoyed lovely weather this year, we have had our struggles with the road closures at The Gardener’s Garden Centre but the team have continued to go above and beyond to ensure we continually serve our customers.
I’d like to thank them all, and our customers, for making Coolings a business which I, and the other Directors, are incredibly proud of.”
Thank You
Thank you to the GCA, the passionate team across all four Coolings sites and the continued support from our customers. Fingers crossed for the national results later this year!


