Awards

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…

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…