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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…

Fryer’s Roses to Launch Two New Roses for 2019 at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival Fryer’s Roses, part of the Blue Diamond Group of Garden Centres, is to launch two new roses at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival, Reach for the Stars on behalf of Alder Hey Children’s Charity and Friends on behalf of the Greenfingers Charity. Reach for the Stars rose Launched by…

Our Managing Director, Alan Roper appeared on BBC Radio 4 'Your and Yours' programme earlier this week, discussing the success of the Wyevale acquisitions. Click the link to listen >  https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0005t40

Fryer's Roses, part of the Blue Diamond Group of Garden Centres have created a colourful, eye-catching display combining Fryer's roses and with herbaceous plants at the 2019 RHS Chatsworth Flower Show. The RHS Show at Chatsworth combines a  delightful mix of gardening inspiration, spectacular summer colour, have-a-go workshops and unique shopping within the magnificent setting of The…