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Tips to Make a Christmas Tree Last Longer Blue Diamond, provide a free tree bag for every real Christmas tree to take home.  This is to keep your car clean primarily, but also helps with keeping the wind off the tree during transportation,  Without some kind of covering, the wind can dry the Christmas tree out.  Choose an appropriate location for your Christmas tree…

Our Managing Director, Alan Roper spoke this week at The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) and Garden Industry Manufacturers Association (GIMA), 'Cultivating Retail' – a collaborative one-day event for retailers, suppliers and growers. The event, first announced at the HTA Garden Futures Conference last year, aims to provide a mix of strategic and inspirational content from external…

Malvern Flower Show 2018 saw a celebration of autumn with plants, celebrities, giant vegetables and cookery workshops. Congratulations to 3 Shires Garden Centre who won the RHS 4 flower Plant Village award. The top award is a 5 flower award which 3 Shires achieved at the Malvern Spring Festival in May, earlier this year. A big congratulations to the team at 3 Shires for their impressive displays…

We are pleased to announce that we have today completed the acquisition of Nailsworth Garden Centre  from Wyevale Garden Centres, our 30th Garden Centre. Formerly known as Waterside garden centre it was designed and built by our Managing Director, Alan Roper, in the 90's before he joined Blue Diamond.  It was sold to Kennedys and then to Wyevale when that…

Blue Diamond operates its own loyalty scheme called “The Diamond Club”.   We are unable to accept Wyevale Garden Centres Garden Club Cards. The Diamond Club is a reward scheme which allows our members to take advantage of monthly promotions and offers throughout the centre as well as selected free hot drinks weeks, money saving vouchers as well as having full access to our Diamond…

Blue Diamond is pleased to announce that we have acquired 8 new garden centres which we will be welcoming to our group! These 8 garden centres are former Wyevale Garden Centre's, who announced their sale earlier this year. We are pleased to inform you that the location of these 8 new Blue Diamond Centres will be located at: Bicester, Oxfordshire Endsleigh, Devon Sanders, Burnham-on-sea Cadbury…

Fryer’s Roses, are to launch two new roses at this year’s RHS Tatton Park Flower Show – the “20 th Anniversary” rose and the “Elizabeth Ashbrook” rose. “20 th Anniversary” Rose To commemorate and celebrate the 20 th Anniversary of the RHS Tatton Park Flower Show, Fryer’s Roses, is launching the “20 th Anniversary” rose; a new and exclusive rose to Fryer’s Roses…

It's official! Blue Diamond is one of the UK’s best retailers for products for the kitchen, table and home, having reached the finals of the Excellence in Housewares Awards 2018 . The Excellence in Housewares Awards , now in its 19th year, are organised by Progressive Housewares magazine in conjunction with bira (The British Independent Retailer Association). The Awards recognise and reward the…

We have now closed Ed's play barn at our Garden & Home store at East Bridgford for refurbishment. The refurbishment project will take place throughout July and we plan to open the new play barn, which will be called Ed & Molly's Playbarn at the end of this month. The new play barn will have a brand new website which will be  https://www.edandmollysplaybarn.co.uk/ Please keep an…

Fryer’s Roses is to launch two new roses at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show - “Eirene” to commemorate the centenary of the end of WW1 and “Sarah Elizabeth” in memory of a young lady, who tragically lost her life in 2013. “Eirene” Rose   To commemorate the centenary of the end of WWI, Fryer’s Roses, is launching “Eirene”, a rose named after the…