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The Blue Diamond Group are celebrating the significant milestone reached by Queen Elizabeth II on reaching her Platinum Jubilee. On 6th February this year Her Majesty The Queen became the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, marking 70 years of service to the people of the United Kingdom, the Realms and the Commonwealth. To celebrate this unprecedented anniversary, events and…

Mer, part of Norwegian renewable energy giant Statkraft, has entered into an agreement with Blue Diamond to provide over 300 electric vehicle charge points at its 39 garden centres across the UK. The installation of Mer EV chargers gives Blue Diamond customers the option to charge their electric vehicles with 100% renewable energy at its garden centres across the UK. The roll out is due to start…

What a momentous day at Bridgemere Show Gardens, located within the grounds of Bridgemere Garden Centre. The formal relaunch of the show gardens attracted hundreds of guests and VIPs, as well as the original founder of the gardens, John Ravenscroft. The gardens were opened by Mr Ravenscroft, and Blue Diamonds Managing Director, Alan Roper. The day was filled with live music, happy gardeners, and…

Bridgemere Show Gardens, now owned by the Blue Diamond Group, are once again restored to their former glory following an extensive restoration and rejuvenation. These Gardens include 3 RHS Chelsea Medal winning show gardens. Formally known as ‘The Garden Kingdom’, and founded by John Ravenscroft in the 1980s to inspire amateur gardeners, these Show Gardens were once a popular visitor…

The David Colegrave Foundation have announced this year’s scholarship awards, totalling over £25,000 of support for 11 students. The various awards help fund a wide range of students from 9 different colleges and universities throughout the UK. The first to be announced are the winners of the new scholarship sponsored by The Blue Diamond Group, which attracted a large number of applications…

We are supporting the relief effort in Ukraine The Blue Diamond Group of Garden Centres are donating 100% of the sale proceeds for the ‘Peace’ rose to the Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal. Since the start of this campaign, on the 4th of March 2022, over 600 “Peace" roses have been sold to date, amounting to more than £10,000 in donations which will be paid to the British Red Cross Ukraine…

Easter Opening Hours 2022   GOOD FRIDAY All centres open as normal   EASTER SATURDAY All centres open as normal   EASTER SUNDAY All centres are closed - except: (Chatsworth Garden Centre Plant Area Open – 10.30am to 4.30pm. Internal areas are closed) (Evesham Garden Centre Restaurant Open via side entrance) (Trentham Restaurant Open via terrace doors)   BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY…

Jill Kerr, our resident Rose Category Manager for Fryer's Roses has been out on location filming a video that digs deeper into the history of Fryer's Roses. We also have some hints and tips for you in these easy-to-watch videos and also we have some special roses to show to you. Take a look at this video now by visiting  https://youtu.be/uNnxmF22T-o  Also, in our second video, we take…

The brand new and exclusive 'Lady Eve Balfour Dahlia' collection has arrived at Blue Diamond! Lady Eve was the founder of the Soil Association, Britain's leading organic food and farming organisation. The Soil Association is the charity that digs deeper to transform the way we live and care for our natural world. The mission of the Soil Association is help everyone understand and explore the…

A congregation of around 600 gathered in Manchester Cathedral on Thursday evening, 10th March, to celebrate the success of the Blue Diamond Group over the past two years. MD, Alan Roper, led the Blue Diamond event, dancing onto the stage before extolling the great efforts of his garden centre teams. "By investing all our profits back into the centres we have rapidly grown in size.  We'll be…