Awards

We have won Best Plant Village Display 2022 at BBC Gardeners' World Live!    A huge congratulations and thanks to all involved. These shows are a real Blue Diamond team effort.   Presenting the award is Lucy Tremlett (2nd right) to 2 of our team members, Gay Hines-Randall and Jessical Sale (3rd and 4th right) from Melbicks Garden Centre.   You still have time to book tickets…

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…

The Institute of Directors (IoD) in Guernsey has announced that Alan Roper, Managing Director at Blue Diamond Group is the winner of this year’s IoD Director of the Year Awards, sponsored by JT.    The winners were celebrated at this year’s IoD Guernsey Annual Convention.  Roy  McGregor, the   Director of the…

The Blue Diamond Group’s first Artisan Garden wins  Best Artisan Garden Award at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021   The Blue Diamond Forge Garden was awarded Best Artisan Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021 yesterday along with a Silver Award. This is a tremendous achievement for the Blue Diamond Group not least as it is the first time that the Group have exhibited at RHS Chelsea…

Congratulations to Alan Blomfield from Worcester Garden Centre who is celebrating his 50 year work anniversary, this weekend, Sunday 1st August 2021. The Blue Diamond Group would like to extend our warm thanks and praise for such dedication and commitment to the garden centre over the years. Biography: Alan started in Summer 1971 at the age of 16, as a nursery worker on the site then known as…

We are delighted to announce that we were awarded 5 Flowers (the highest award, equivalent of a Gold) and also the Best Plant Exhibit at RHS Tatton Park Flower Show, this week.   A huge well done to Anna King from Trentham Garden Centre and Louise Gandy from Grosvenor Garden Centre & Restaurant who designed and then built the display with the help of Aaron Piper, Richard Hind, Alexander…

A huge congratulations and well done to our General Manager at Newbridge Nurseries, Steve Nicholls who is celebrating 25 years of service. Our Managing Director, Alan Roper, was with him this week to congratulate and award him. The Blue Diamond Group would like to congratulate Steve and thank him for all his hard work and dedication to the centre. What an achievement!

Blue Diamond has won the coveted Silver Gilt Awards at this year's Royal Horticultural Society Show at Hampton Court for our Fryer's Rose display in the floral marquee. Our show garden 'Down Memory Lane' and our floral marquee by Fryer's Roses have both won awards, which are a credit to the teams on the ground who have delivered both of these projects to a very professional standard. 'Down Memory…

The Blue Diamond Annual Awards were held on Thursday 12th March 2020 at Chateau Impney Hotel, near Droitwich. Over 500 people including employees and suppliers celebrated the success of the 2019 trading year with a lavish awards dinner and sparkling ceremony.  Hosted by Alan Roper, Managing Director, the action-packed evening was a roaring success that encapsulated the spirit of Blue Diamond…

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…