New Garden Centres to Blue Diamond

Orchard Park garden centre has been sold to Blue Diamond.  The garden centre, which is situated on an 8-acre site on the edge of Gillingham in North Dorset, becomes our 21 st  garden centre. Orchard park was built in 2004 with strong annual sales. The site has planning consent to triple the size of the covered retail area to 5,000 sq m.  Our Managing Director, Alan Roper, hopes to…

Blue Diamond Ltd, the UK’s third-largest garden centre group, which is managed and controlled in Guernsey and owns Le Friquet Garden Centre has reported strong profits for 2016. It has also announced the acquisition of its 20th garden centre at East Bridgford, near Nottingham.    Following record profits of £6.6m in 2015, Blue Diamond managed to increase profits again in 2016 by 28%…

The Board is pleased to announce the acquisition of Coton Orchard Garden Centre, which completed on 5th December 2016. The centre is located just outside the fast-growing city of Cambridge next to the M11 in an attractive rural area surrounded by orchards. There is a large AB demographic within 30 minutes of Cambridge and no garden centre currently targeting it. The current centre has a turnover…

Blue Diamond announces today that it has acquired Harlow Garden Nurseries just outside London off the M11. The freehold garden centre has tremendous potential and will be redeveloped into one of the finest destination garden centres in the UK. Managing Director Alan Roper said, "We are very excited about Harlow Garden Centre. The previous owners have created a strong gardening offer and we intend…