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Blue Diamond Garden Centres in collaboration with the National Trust are delighted to have been shortlisted as a finalist in this year’s Cultural Enterprises Awards for Best Licensed Product category, featuring our collection of plants, bulbs and seeds inspired by properties and gardens cared for by the Trust. These Awards celebrate success and creativity in the cultural income generation and…

It's chilly out there and much of the UK has woken up to snow and ice in recent days.   Give our feathered friends a helping hand in this cold weather by providing bird feed.   We have plenty in stock both in store and online  https://store.bluediamond.gg/shop/wild-birdcare/   For year-round handy tips about helping wildlife in your garden, look out for our Nature Friendly…

January is the start of an exciting new year in the garden. The weather may getting cooler, but if you look, you can see the first signs of spring outdoors, with bulbs poking up out of the ground and the days growing ever so slightly longer.   'From the potting shed' is a feature in our monthly gardening hints and tips, written by Chris Milborne who is in the plant department at our Van Hage…

Real Christmas trees are natural and are 100% recyclable.  After you and your family have enjoyed your tree and Christmas is over, it can be recycled, chipped into mulch for gardens or woodchips for paths. This means that your Christmas tree serves another useful purpose and as such has negligible or even negative Carbon Dioxide emissions. It is much better than sending it to landfill. How…

Our centre opening times over the festive period do vary so please check before you visit. If you are viewing on a mobile or tablet, you may wish to download our opening times. Download PDF

And the winner is… Coton Orchard Garden Centre   Our Coton Orchard Garden Centre Cambridge voted as best in the county of Cambridgeshire by the readers of Cambridgeshire Live   This will not be a surprise to many Cambridge locals as Coton Orchard has gained quite a reputation in recent years as being far more than your traditional garden centre experience. As well as a whole…

Real Christmas Trees are now arriving in stock in all*  Blue Diamond Garden Centres   Wen you buy a real Christmas tree from Blue Diamond, you can be confident of the highest quality, cut-to-order, luxury Christmas tree, in the size of your choice. Our expert teams will help you to choose the right tree for your home, and give you plenty of advice on how to care for your tree - we pride…

Blue Diamond are delighted to be able to join retailers such as Boots, Tesco and Wickes in the final eight for judging in Retail Week’s Award for Best Retailer over £250m.  The results will be announced on March 5 th  2024 at Grosvenor House, London. The finalists for Retail Weeks’ The Best Retailer over £250m: Blue Diamond Boots Frasers Group ScS Group Superdrug Tesco The Very…

We are heading to RHS Chelsea 2024 with a main avenue show garden.  The Octavia Hill Garden by Blue Diamond with the National Trust. Together with the  National Trust  this main avenue show garden celebrates Octavia Hill (1838-1912),  the pioneering co-founder of the National Trust, who believed green spaces and gardens were vital in everyone’s life. Octavia worked…

Europe’s largest conservation charity, the National Trust and Blue Diamond Garden Centres auctioned ten saplings propagated from the apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity. At a presentation ceremony, held at Woolsthorpe Manor, the childhood home of Sir Isaac Newton and where he formed the Theory of Gravity, the 10 winners were presented with their saplings. Amongst the…