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Blue Diamond Garden Centres are pleased to announce that they are taking part in this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. From 23rd -27th May Blue Diamond are exhibiting in the Discovery Zone where they have two stands, one in collaboration with the National Trust and one with the Soil Association. Blue Diamond Garden Centres and the National Trust - Stand GPA007 (Artist impression of the Blue…

Our Managing Director, Alan Roper, has announced that the purchase of Fosseway Garden Centres in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire has now completed, along with the purchase of Beckworth Emporium located, Northamptonshire. This takes Blue Diamond to becoming the largest turnover garden centre group in the UK, with a turnover in excess of £300 million. Northamptonshire's best-loved garden centre…

Van Hage Great Amwell is one of the leading garden centres in the country, and more importantly has been a huge part of the local community for over 70 years, starting in Broxbourne back in 1958. Now part of the Blue Diamond Group of Garden Centres, Van Hage is being restored to its former glory with the respect and dignity it deserves with investment in all areas of the centre, first and…

The restoration programme of Bridgemere Show Gardens has gathered more steam under the leadership of Alan Roper, Managing Director of Blue Diamond Group, with the appointment of popular TV Gardener, David Domoney. This beloved Cheshire landmark was founded in 1986, by John Ravenscroft, who wanted to bring the experience of the UK’s premier flower shows to his own garden centre. When John…

Blue Diamond Garden have recently been featured in The Times newspaper, (Wednesday 19th April edition), in an article which relates to our upcoming auction of a limited number of Isaac Newton's Apple Trees. In collaboration with the National Trust, Blue Diamond will offer people the chance to bid for a limited number of these very special trees which are propagated from the original tree! Isaac…

The first of two acquisitions for 2023 have been confirmed by our Managing Director, Alan Roper, which will be ‘Beckworth Emporium’ in Northamptonshire. Blue Diamond will build upon the great food and catering experience at Beckworth which fits exactly the Blue Diamond AB1 target demographic.  The Emporium is located in Mears Ashby, nestled in the Northamptonshire countryside near the…

Volunteers have stepped in to restore a charity allotment after  vandals targeted it with salt . The rescue project was broadcast live on GMB after the attack on Carly Burd's allotment in Harlow led to a huge outpouring of national support. Huge bags of fresh topsoil were delivered on Friday morning by Blue Diamond's Harlow Garden Centre and mechanical diggers and volunteers set to work…

Our new Restaurant is now open at Blackdown Garden Centre, part of The Blue Diamond Group !   The Greenhouse Kitchen is open daily serving Breakfast from 9am, Monday to Saturday and 10am on Sunday. Breakfast finishes at 11.30am.   Our new Deli counter is open daily from 11am to 4pm and our Lunch menu is served from 12pm to 3.30pm.   We look forward to welcoming all of our customers…

On the 15 th  March 2023 colleagues from Blue Diamond Garden Leisure Teams were invited to an exclusive training day with Weber BBQ experts. The day was full of informative information and consisted of 4 workshops which happened throughout the day, Big Grills, Small Grills, Fuel and Lighting and Lumin and Accessories.  Each course provided in-depth detail on how each grill worked and…

The UK’s second largest Garden Centre Group, Blue Diamond, are partnering with BBC Radio 2 for Let it Grow by donating 45,000 packets of Forget me Not seeds. From the 27th March, visitors to any Blue Diamond Garden Centre will be able to pick up a free pack of Forget me Not Seeds so that they can get involved and give growing a go. The BBC’s Let it Grow initiative will help the nation “turn…