Perrywood News
Welcome to Perrywood News & Blog, this is where you can find out what's going on at Perrywood Tiptree and Perrywood Sudbury...
Celebrate Rose Weekend – 11 & 12 June
We are celebrating roses at Perrywood Garden Centre this Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th June. Come along and see our beautiful displays including perfect plant companions to help your roses flourish! Our plant team will be on hand to help you pick the perfect rose to brighten up your garden and… Read More »
Family Business United Visits Perrywood Sudbury
Last week, Paul Andrews from Family Business United, which promotes and supports family businesses in the UK, came to visit Hannah and Alan at Perrywood Sudbury. It was part of their Family Business Road trip in East Anglia and they were also joined by Sarah Lewis from Birketts. Paul and Sarah last visited Perrywood… Read More »
Hannah’s Chelsea Highlights – The Floral Marquee
Our Communications & HR Director, Hannah, visited the RHS Chelsea Flower Show on Tuesday. The floral marquee showcases some of the world’s finest growers and nurseries, via their impressive displays. Here are Hannah’s floral marquee highlights: “There were mounds of alstroemeria, with a carnival vibe in the floral marquee. This is such a… Read More »
Hannah’s Chelsea Highlights – The Outdoor Gardens and Exhibits
Our Communications & HR Director, Hannah, visited the RHS Chelsea Flower Show on Tuesday. She enjoyed the creativity and planting combinations in the gardens. Here are Hannah’s outdoor garden and exhibit highlights: The Blue Garden by @tomwilkesrios “This was a small space packed full of interesting plants like agave and succulents. Set against… Read More »
Perrywood Donates VegTrug to Age Well East
We recently donated a VegTrug with a selection of red, white and blue plants to Age Well East ready for a visit from National Lottery Ambassadors Rachel Stevens and Roman Kemp. They visited the local charity last week to film with Camelot to promote the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Project funded by the National… Read More »
Are you ready for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee weekend?
The Perrywood team have been very busy setting up eye-catching displays to inspire you for the forthcoming Jubilee weekend. Why not be the envy of your neighbours with an impressive front door display! Bedding plants are fantastic to add instant colour to containers or hanging baskets. In true British style, the Plant Team have… Read More »
Our Top 8 Chelsea Inspired Pollinator Friendly Plants
We are closely following the planting trends at RHS Chelsea Flower Show this week and it is interesting to see the number of plants that are pollinator friendly within the show gardens. For our Plant Hope campaign this year, we are encouraging our customers to find little ways to be more sustainable. One great way… Read More »
Perrywood supports local schools taking part in the Colchester Garden Festival
The Colchester Garden Festival will take place on 21st July-22nd August and will celebrate the environment, green spaces and gardening with a number of public installations, workshops, shows and podcast recordings. As part of the festival, Lee Connelly, Essex-based gardener is visiting schools in the Colchester area this month to run workshops and teach children… Read More »
Our Plant Buyers Must Have Summer Plants
Zoe is our plant buyer at Perrywood and works alongside Alan Bourne, owner and director. She has been in this role for two and half years now and has a big passion for plants and all things gardening. With a love of big leaves, bright colours, easy to care for plants and anything a bit… Read More »
RHS Chelsea Planting Trends for 2022
The 2022 theme for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show (24th to 28th May) is ‘Rewilding Britain’. This year, gardeners exhibiting are being encouraged to ’embrace the wild’ and ‘bring back nature’ by using native species and carefully considering the wildlife and the environment. This is just up our street and we are delighted that the… Read More »
April is Stress Awareness Month
Hannah wanted to share some tips about how to use plants and nature to alleviate stressful times. You can watch her video on Facebook, or read below. Why listen to me! I suffered burnout and FND whilst in London. I was constantly stressed and ignored the signs. I was ill a lot, always running… Read More »
Spring Late Night Shopping Evenings
Would you like to enjoy a quieter shopping experience? If so, join us for our late night shopping evenings. Every Thursday, from Thursday 28th April to Thursday 26th May we will be open from 8.30am to 7.30pm (gate closes at 7pm!). Our Coffee Shop & Restaurant and Greenhouse Café will close… Read More »
Donated trees to local schools and charities now planted!
We recently donated and delivered trees to local schools and charities to support The Queen’s Green Canopy initiative to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee. Everyone from individuals to community groups, villages and schools across the UK were encouraged to take part to enhance the environment by planting trees during the official planting season between October and March.… Read More »
2022 Easter opening times
Join us in-store this Easter weekend and browse our extensive range of products for the home and garden. Our award-winning Plant Area is well stocked with an abundance of plants and trees. The Coffee Shop & Restaurant will not be serving Afternoon tea over the Easter weekend however there will be plenty of other treats… Read More »
Be inspired by your local open gardens!
Gardening can really help your health, both physically and mentally, being outdoors is amazing whether that’s in your own garden or walking through your local open garden. There are 68 homeowners in Essex (and hundreds across the UK) who open their gardens each year as part of the National Garden Scheme. Money is raised for charities… Read More »
Join in our Easter competition!
For a chance to win a £20 Perrywood gift voucher post a photo of you (or friends and family with their permission) in front of our Easter display! You can post this on Instagram with the hashtag #perrywoodeaster. Alternatively, you can email your photo to us at info@perrywood.co.uk The closing date for entries is Sunday 17th April. The… Read More »
Community Gardening – get involved
There are some amazing gardening projects out there, taking place for various groups in the community, in council or charity-run gardens, schools, and so on. We know there are many benefits of plants, from therapeutic and healing properties, through to how people look after their environment more if they are able to connect with… Read More »
‘How sustainable are you?’ – Survey Results
Thank you to everyone that spent a couple of minutes completing our survey. It is much appreciated. We are delighted to report that we’ve had over 600 responses! Our ‘Plant Hope’ campaign aims to find little ways to help our customers become more sustainable. This impressive number of responses enables us to get an accurate… Read More »
Success at the Garden Centre Association Awards
The team at Perrywood Tiptree is celebrating following recent success at the National Garden Centre Association (GCA) Conference, the industry’s most prestigious event of the year for UK garden centres. Perrywood Tiptree was named 8th in the Garden Centre Association’s Top 100 League Table, making us one of only ten garden centres of excellence in… Read More »
Free trees to local schools to celebrate Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee
This week, the Perrywood team have been on the road delivering trees to local schools to support The Queen’s Green Canopy initiative to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee. Everyone from individuals to community groups, villages and schools across the UK are encouraged to take part to enhance the environment by planting trees during the official planting season… Read More »
How Sustainable Are You? – Take Our Survey
Help us to help you! Our aim is to help our customers find little ways to shop and garden more sustainably as part of our Plant Hope campaign, the results of this survey will enable us to do just that! Please take a moment to complete our quick survey. We promise it will take… Read More »
Free trees to local schools and charities to celebrate Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee
This week, the Perrywood team have been on the road delivering trees to local schools and charities to support The Queen’s Green Canopy initiative to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee. Everyone from individuals to community groups, villages and schools across the UK are encouraged to take part to enhance the environment by planting trees during… Read More »
Perrywood Sudbury wins bronze at The Greatest Christmas Awards
We are delighted to have won a bronze award at The Greatest Christmas Awards held at the Spring Fair, NEC Birmingham this week. The bronze award is for The Greatest Christmas Community or Charity Initiative for our Christmas cheer campaign last December. For the last couple of years, over the Christmas period, we have been giving out… Read More »
Perrywood Tiptree wins gold at The Greatest Christmas Awards
We are delighted to have won three awards at The Greatest Christmas Awards held at the Spring Fair, NEC Birmingham this week. The three awards are: GOLD award for The Greatest Christmas Houseplant Team SILVER award for The Greatest Outdoor Plant and Christmas Tree Team BRONZE award for The Greatest Christmas Community or Charity Initiative… Read More »
Brand New Garden Centre – Development Update
In June 2021, we were awarded planning permission to build an inspirational new Garden Centre at our Newton Road site. You may have seen that we have been clearing the derelict plant production nursery in preparation for building work to commence later this year. In other areas we have been planting trees and hedges, and… Read More »
Hannah talks about Cacti on The Green Planet
“Wow, BBC’s The Green Planet was incredible this week. It focused on the plants which grow in deserts and have to adapt to extreme heat and cold and months or years without water. We learned there are around 2,000 species of cactus, and some have spikes of up to a quarter of a metre long!… Read More »
Over £3,000 raised for charities in 2021!
Although it was another challenging year due to Covid, we are so pleased to have raised and donated £3,290 for charities in 2021. Thank you to all our customers and team for their ongoing support. This total includes donations to: ActivGardens to help young people and adults learn practical skills, gain confidence, develop friendships and improve health &… Read More »
Perrywood remembers Peter Seabrook
We’ve lost an industry stalwart with the passing of gardening commentator Peter Seabrook, age 86, who was so supportive to Perrywood over the years. Peter was always keen to hunt out the next high performing plant variety, so would always quiz our owner Alan about what we were growing, and mention several recommendations of… Read More »
Over £15,000 raised for charities in 2021!
We are delighted to have raised and donated £15,743 for charities in 2021! In spite of challenging circumstances due to Covid, we are really pleased to have raised this sum and thank all our customers and team for their ongoing support. This grand total includes the following donations: £1,968 for Together We Grow to support… Read More »
Magic Carpet Competition Winners!
This Christmas we welcomed you to join in our ‘Magic Carpet’ competition. 5 lucky winners received a £20 Perrywood voucher. Thank you to those of you who joined in, there were many amazing entries. We hope you have a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year!
