Garden Centre Association Competition Winners
Want the best? Here they are!
As you know, Life is a Garden is the marketing branch of The South African Nursery Association, known as SANA for short. To become a SANA member, garden centres and home stores must meet a series of criteria and evaluations set out by experienced committee members. SANA’s goal is to set an industry benchmark and maintain the standard of their world-class retailers.
GCA stands for the Garden Centre Association, striving to present a professional image of the horticultural industry and encourage professional business practices through a code of conduct.
Here are your top GCA Garden Centres in South Africa:
- Plant Paradise Garden Centre
- Eckards Garden Pavilion
- Stodels Nurseries Bellville
- Heckers Garden Centre
- Stodels Nurseries Menlo Park
- Concrete & Garden Creations
- Builders Warehouse PE
- Builders Express Robindale
- Builders Express Hillcrest
- Builders Express Northmead
To find your nearest award-winning GCA, visit our website at www.lifeisgarden.co.za and follow the Garden Centres tab on the top menu.
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SANA’s 2022 Garden Centre winners! SA’s Best Garden Centres for 2022
South Africa’s Nursery Association (SANA) hosts an annual GCA Garden Centre competition to present to you, dear gardeners, the cream of the crop! Garden centres and home store garden departments are measured against a set of criteria aimed at assessing and improving product standards and professional service in the industry. Here are the best garden centres in SA! Did your favourite make it?
Stodels Nurseries Bellville – Garden Centre of the year
Address: Eversdale Rd, Bellville
From humble beginnings, Stodels Garden Centres have developed into a household name in gardening in the Western Cape. From the outset, Stodels Garden Centres focused on providing their customers with excellent service, top quality products and affordable prices. Fifty years later, the trio of service, quality and affordability has built a respected and much-loved brand.
Originating from a mail order catalogue and door to door sales, the Stodels brand has grown to its current complement of seven award-winning garden centres today, two of which are based in Gauteng. The company was started by Mr Robert Stodel, in August 1962, when he started selling flower bulbs door to door and from the Parade in Cape Town. A mail order bulb catalogue soon followed and within a few years, Stodels Flower Bulbs became the biggest flower bulb retailer in South Africa, posting nearly 600 000 bulb catalogues to Cape households and importing up to 20 million bulbs from Holland every year.
Find out more: https://www.lifeisagarden.co.za/stodels-bellville/
Garden Pavilion Eckards – Runner up
Address: 101 Boeing Rd East, Bedfordview, Germiston
Eckards is a well-established garden centre that received a new lease on life in 1993. Along the way it became a Garden Pavilion and has continued to move with the times, maintaining a traditional feel with modern influences. Eckards prides itself on a high level of service, quality plants and helping gardeners and growers alike.
