Most Admired Business Leader: Steve McCurdy, Director

(UK Business Awards)

What a tremendous honour for our Managing Director. Amongst the reasons the judges cited for bestowing this award were Steve’s ability to grow the company so rapidly, his commitment to employee welfare, and his drive in campaigning for industry issues.

Employer of the Year

(UK Business Awards)

We were elated to win this new award for the industry. Reasons cited were our company’s egalitarian management style, high retention rates and investment in employee welfare and professional development.

Ornamental Grower of the Year 2017 award

A proud moment for our independent company of 30 employees, who once again found themselves competing against some of the largest horticultural operations in the world - and n carried away a Ornamental Grower of the Year 2017 award

Silver, Finished Plants and Trees, International Grower of the Year Awards

(AIPH – International Association of Horticultural Producers)

A proud moment for our independent company of 30 employees, who once again found themselves competing against some of the largest horticultural operations in the world - and once again carried away a Silver trophy.

Best Business Innovation (My Majestic Professional)

(UK Grower Awards)

Our My Majestic Professional facility has set a higher standard for our industry, giving our professional customers 24 hour access to stock availability information in a fully integrated, image rich, searchable format and providing a means by which to instantly generate fully customizable suggestion lists for clients in an email format.

WINNER, Grower of the Year Ornamental

(UK Grower Awards)

An award presented to the most outstanding ornamental grower amongst ALL competing UK growers across ALL Ornamental categories.

WINNER, Nursery Stock Grower of the Year

(UK Grower Awards)

An award presented to the most outstanding ornamental nursery stock grower amongst all ornamental growers competing in the Ornamental Nursery Stock category.

WINNER, Best Professional Product or Service 2014 (Delivery to Tree Pit Service)

(Horticulture Week’s Grower of the Year Awards)

Quite often our trade customers already have staff and machinery on site, but lack the specialist equipment needed to place big trees in their planting pits. Our economical ‘delivery to tree pit’ service solves this problem and absolves the customer of any liability for damage during offload and placement of the tree in position.

WINNER Best Business Innovation, 2013 (Treefinder Search Facility)

(Horticulture Week’s Grower of the Year Awards)

With this award, our ambition to distil all our accumulated knowledge and tree images into the most sophisticated online tree-search database in the industry came to fruition.

SILVER ROSE, International Grower of the Year Awards 2011

(AIPH (International Organization of Horticultural Producers) International Grower of the Year Awards)

An award ranking our nursery second in the world, received at our first international competition.

WINNER Nursery Stock Grower of the Year 2011

(Grower of the Year Awards)

An award presented to the most outstanding nursery amongst ALL ornamental growers in the United Kingdom.

WINNER Grower of the Year Ornamental 2011

(Grower of the Year Awards)

An award presented to the most outstanding nursery amongst ALL ornamental growers in the United Kingdom.

WINNER Sales & Marketing Professional of the Year 2011 (Sarah Shynn)

Grower of the Year Awards)

An award presented to the most outstanding Sales & Marketing Professional in the industry. We were all so delighted to see Sarah receive the national recognition she so deserves.

WINNER Sales & Marketing Professional of the Year 2010 (Sara Phillips)

(Grower of the Year Awards)

Our Sales Manager and longest standing member of staff, Sara Phillips, was much deserving of this award for all her input in developing the sales and scheduling department.

WINNER Technical Product of the Year 2009 (Marooka)

(Grower of the Year Awards)

After a season of heavy rain, we were determined to find a machine that could plant heavy trees in wet conditions without damaging lawns.

WINNER Grower of the Year Ornamental 2008

(Grower of the Year Awards)

This was our first entry to this industry competition, so we were surprised enough to win in our category (nursery stock). Imagine the elation to then go on to win overall Ornamental Grower of the Year across all category winners!

WINNER Nursery Stock Grower of the Year 2008

(Grower of the Year Awards)

This was our first entry to this industry competition, and being such a young nursery it was a very unexpected surprise to be handed the trophy for our category of nursery stock.