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Details for all of our Christmas events are now available on our dedicated ticketing website which can be found at  https://tickets.bluediamond.gg/ We have a wide range of events from Santa's Grotto to Wreath Making and Ice Rinks... something for all the family. Our Christmas departments are also beginning to take shape.  We have lots of new and exciting features this year including the…

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…

Exclusive competition for Diamond Club members We have partnered with Tenuta Cappelina on the warm slopes at the southern tip of the Chianti Classico region, to create our very own Blue Diamond wine! And to celebrate its launch, we are giving you a chance to win a week away at this beautiful estate in the heart of the Tuscany region of Italy. Borgo Argiano is an elegant and exclusive country…

Each morning, the chefs at Stooks in our Newbridge Garden Centre enjoy picking the fruit and vegetables from their very own kitchen garden to use daily on the menu in the restaurant.  Mark, the gardener and John the Chef write about this gardener and food lovers combination of joy. Stooks No Dig Gardening   I took on the kitchen garden at Stooks in August 2017. The garden had become…

Blue Diamond is pleased to announce the acquisition of Bridgemere Garden Centre from Wyevale Garden Centres, bringing the group to a total of 37 garden centres across the UK and Channel Islands. The acquisition includes the freehold purchase of Bridgemere Nurseries. Alan Roper, Managing Director of Blue Diamond, said: "I am personally pleased to be acquiring Bridgemere Garden Centre and…

We’re currently experiencing the hottest days of the year and some of the hottest on record in the UK. Keeping your garden fit, healthy and growing during this hot weather can be a huge task. Watering becomes critical. As well as being essential to plants survival, water is also the way in which they draw up nutrients from the soil through the roots and stems and into the leaves and fruit. Not…

The Blue Diamond Group is pleased to announce that we have acquired a further 6 garden centres from Wyevale Garden Centres bringing our group to a total of 36 garden centres across the UK and the Channel Islands. The garden centres that we have acquired are as follows: Tunbridge Wells Garden Centre, Eridge Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 8HR Lower Morden Garden Centre, Lower Morden Lane, Morden…

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…

Dianne Oxberry was one of the BBC’s longest-serving presenters, beloved by viewers who welcomed her into their homes on a daily basis. As the comedian Peter Kay famously remarked when gate-crashing her live TV weather report ‘Dianne Oxberry…God love her…you’ve made it sunshine for everybody’. He wasn’t wrong. When she died so suddenly of Ovarian Cancer in January 2019, it was…

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…