Awards

We are pleased to announce that we have won Greeting Card Retailer of the Year at The Reta Awards, 2019. The Retas were launched by Progressive Greetings magazine in 2005, in recognition of the tremendous contribution that retailers both large and small, make to the success of the greeting card industry. The Retas are established as the summer event for the greeting card community. It brings…

The Blue Diamond Group of Garden Centres is delighted to donate £6,000 to the Rose Society at this year’s Malvern Autumn Show (28 th and 29 th September). Blue Diamond, who own Fryer’s Roses, pledged the donation to the Society to enable the Society to do more to support the rose industry and to promote roses generally. Fryer’s Roses are internationally renowned and have gained prestigious…

The Blue Diamond team has won a treasured Gold Award at this years, Royal Cornwall Show. Trelawney is lucky to be located in a beautiful part of the country and our vision was to show off our coastal location with a selection of fabulous plants all that will thrive in our rural landscape  Visual Merchandiser Julie Walters and her team managed to create a stunning display garden which…

Blue Diamond has won the coveted Silver Gilt Award at this year's Royal Horticultural Society Show at Hampton Court.  'Landscape for living’ is our Fryer’s Roses, Rose Garden, which is based on Garret Eckbo’s 1950’s book and his ethos for small gardens.  He believed they were ‘laboratories for developing new ideas and concepts'.  1950's gardens celebrated outdoor and…

Oh what a night!  We came together as a group on Tuesday 19 th March and celebrated our annual awards at Chateau Impney in the West Midlands with Fermoys and Le Friquet winning the Acorn and Oak Cups for Blue Diamond Garden Centres of the Year.  Trelawney and Redfields won the Blue Diamond Restaurant of the Year Awards and our Managing Director Alan Roper was presented with a special…

Malvern Flower Show 2018 saw a celebration of autumn with plants, celebrities, giant vegetables and cookery workshops. Congratulations to 3 Shires Garden Centre who won the RHS 4 flower Plant Village award. The top award is a 5 flower award which 3 Shires achieved at the Malvern Spring Festival in May, earlier this year. A big congratulations to the team at 3 Shires for their impressive displays…

It's official! Blue Diamond is one of the UK’s best retailers for products for the kitchen, table and home, having reached the finals of the Excellence in Housewares Awards 2018 . The Excellence in Housewares Awards , now in its 19th year, are organised by Progressive Housewares magazine in conjunction with bira (The British Independent Retailer Association). The Awards recognise and reward the…

Laura Williams recently competed at RHS Chelsea Flower Show for Florist of the Year and was awarded a bronze medal. Well done Laura on this superb achievement. 

FRYER'S GARDEN CENTRE in Knutsford has been awarded a prestigious gong for the second year running rising up from a shortlist of 20 to win. The Manchester Road centre won Best Garden Centre for the year of 2017 beating 19 others. Bijal Mistry, store manager, said: “I am delighted with this award. I have a tight-knit team of loyal and hardworking staff, many of whom have worked at Fryer’s for…

Fryer's Roses, part of the Blue Diamond Group of garden centres, have had great success at this summer's RHS Flower Shows over the past two months. The success started at RHS Chatsworth (7th – 11th June) with a 4 Rosette Award being given to the display in the Plant Village, designed and created by the team at Chatsworth Garden Centre. This show also saw the launch of a brand new rose, "The…