Awards

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…

Blue Diamond has won the coveted title of 'Britain's Best Multiple Garden Centre' at the Housewares Innovation Awards, which was held at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham on Monday, 6th February. Hosted by enthusiastic duo Si King and Dave Myers, also known as 'The Hairy Bikers', the Housewares Innovation Awards recognises the UK's most outstanding retailers and suppliers. Representing…

Fryer's roses, part of the Blue Diamond group of Garden Centres, was delighted to be awarded a Silver Gilt medal at last month's Tatton RHS for its feature in the Floral Marquee and a Silver medal for its Back to Back garden which also won Best Show Feature, as part of the Cheshire Gardens of Distinction group of gardens. Bijal Mistry, the Store Manager at Fryer's Roses, who designed and built…

Le Friquet Garden Centre have achieved Gold for the second year running in The Greatest Christmas Display and Greatest Pet Christmas Team categories in The 7 th Annual Greatest Christmas Awards held at The Majestic Hotel in Harrogate on Sunday, 10 th January. The prestigious awards event, sponsored by SnowTime and Kaemingk, was hosted and organised by Garden Trade News, who along with the judging…

Evesham Garden Centre, have won an impressive 15 awards at the prestigious Garden Centre Association (GCA) Awards held at Stratford Garden Centre on 21st July 2015. The centre won 11 Awards of Merit, two Midland Area Awards, a Highly Commended Award and are finalists in the Ruxley Rose Competition. The Awards of Merit are based on the percentage scored in the centre's audit per department and…