Awards

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…

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…