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Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre, is on the lookout for Britain’s best gardeners with its Not Your Average Gardener Awards.  

Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, announces today a new partnership with Waitrose, to provide Dobbies’ customers with Waitrose’s wide range of high-quality food, grocery products and everyday essentials in over 50 Dobbies Garden Centres across the UK.

Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, has expanded its compost bag recycling scheme following a successful trial across 10 of its stores.

Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, is donating the outdoor and indoor plants from its five star, award-winning RHS Chelsea Flower Show ‘green sanctuary’ stand to two UK charities; Stroke Association and Horatio’s Garden.  

Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, has received a trio of awards at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, including the RHS Sustainable Garden Product of the Year Award, the RHS Assessors’ Award for Retail Innovation, new for 2022, and, a five star rating for its trade stand.

Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, announces it has been granted planning permission to build a new 60,000 sq ft store in Reading. The retailer currently has a store at Hyde End Road, Shinfield, and the new store will be built on the land behind the existing store.

The world’s most iconic horticultural event, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, is back in May for 2022, and the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, Dobbies, is set to mark its return with an inspirational stand that will showcase how to embrace your own green sanctuary as well as sustainable gardening solutions.  

Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, has announced the recruitment for three senior managerial roles, at their brand-new flagship store in Tewkesbury, ahead of the store opening in autumn.  

Ahead of Stop Food Waste Day (27 April), leading garden centre retailer, Dobbies, announces it has saved more than 44,000 Magic Bags from landfill through its partnership with surplus food app, Too Good to Go.

Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre, is helping Britain’s community projects brighten up their green spaces with its Helping Your Community Grow initiative.

Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, will be planting 500 trees and 100 metres of hedgerows across the UK, as part of its partnership with The Tree Council, formed in celebration of The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.  

It’s officially spring and Dobbies stores across the UK are gearing up for their busiest spring ever. In fact, new research from the UK’s leading garden centre retailer has found that a huge 76% of Brits can’t wait to get back gardening now that spring is here.

Planning permission has been granted for a 110,000 Sq ft Dobbies Garden Centre in Northern Ireland – one of the largest retail lettings in the UK and Ireland in recent years. 

Two industry leading horticultural brands have joined forces to provide gardeners with a solution to plant pot recycling, preventing further plastic waste ending up in landfill. 

The UK’s leading garden centre retailer, Dobbies, relaunches its highly requested free in-store ‘Grow How’ demonstrations, taking place on the first Saturday of every month.

Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre, is helping Britain’s green spaces blossom this spring with the return of its much-loved Helping Your Community Grow initiative, with an enhanced sustainable focus for 2022. 

This Christmas, three local communities will enjoy a very special festive season as Dobbies reveals the worthy winners of its Not Your Average Community campaign.  

Dobbies has supported Teenage Cancer Trust since 2014 and is pleased to announce that in 2021 the team has raised a grand total of £100,000 for the charity.

Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, is partnering with sustainable energy pioneer and charge point operator, GRIDSERVE, to install EV chargers at stores nationwide.

Construction has begun on a new flagship Dobbies Garden Centre at Cotswolds Designer Outlet (CDO), a premium retail and leisure destination taking shape in one of the UK’s tourist hotspots. 

Dobbies demonstrated particular resilience and progress, despite the significant challenges caused by the Covid pandemic.  

Dobbies is encouraging people to think sustainably this Christmas, as they mark ‘Bring your Christmas Tree Home Day’ (4 December 2021). 

Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre, announces three senior appointments, strengthening its team as it continues to develop its platform for growth. 

Dobbies Garden Centres opened the doors of its Richmond little dobbies today (November 4 2021), as it continues the roll-out of the new concept stores across the country.

In the festive spirit of giving, Dobbies has launched a new campaign to share some joy in the run up to Christmas. 

With RHS Chelsea Flower Show still fresh in the minds of gardening fans, Dobbies Garden Centres has released its latest podcast which goes behind-the-scenes at this year’s show.

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show officially opened to the public today and the team at Dobbies is celebrating, after being presented with a five star award for their trade stand. 

The most iconic horticultural event of the year, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, is back in bloom for the first time since 2019 and the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, Dobbies, is set to celebrate its return in sustainable style from 21 to 26 September.  

Dobbies Garden Centres, the UK’s leading garden retailer, has opened its second London-based little dobbies, enjoying the strongest opening to-date.

Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, has announced the winners of its first-ever ‘Not Your Average Gardener’ awards. 

Residents in communities across the UK are being asked to vote for their favourite local community gardening project to receive support.

Dobbies Garden Centres, the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, today (Thursday 8 July) opens its first London-based little dobbies.

Environment Minister Rebecca Pow visits Dobbies Garden Centre in London to hear how they are creating jobs and planting for our planet

Dobbies, the UK’s largest garden centre retailer, confirms that it will be peat-free in six months, in relation to bagged compost, bringing forward the original target of 2022.  

Waste-aware gardeners will now be able to recycle compost packaging thanks to a trial scheme from the country’s biggest garden retailer. 

Dobbies Garden Centres has launched a new peat-free compost containing John Innes standard material. It will be the first own-brand product of its type in the UK. 

Dobbies Garden Centres has announced that it is stocking Bloomin Amazing™, an organic and environmentally friendly soil enricher.

Dobbies Garden Centres welcomes the announcements from DEFRA and the HTA identifying proposed deadlines for retailers to be peat-free. 

Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, announces plans for a second store in Northern Ireland, located at The Junction Retail and Leisure Park.

Dobbies Garden Centres, the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, today (Wednesday 12 May) announces the next two little dobbies stores that will open this year: Chiswick High Road and Westbourne Grove.

Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, today (Friday 30 April) opens its 71st store, located in Boston Lincolnshire.

Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, has launched the latest episode of its popular podcast, this time in collaboration with Butterfly Conservation to hear more about its ‘Nurture for Nature’ campaign.

The UK’s leading garden centre retailer, Dobbies Garden Centres, demonstrates its support for the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) National Gardening Week (26 April – 2 May) with the launch of new sustainable products and the start of its #sustainabledobbies campaign.

Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, has announced the acquisition of Johnsons Garden Centre (Johnsons) located in Boston, Lincolnshire. This takes the total number of Dobbies stores to 71.

Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, has teamed up with UK wildlife charity, Butterfly Conservation, as the official partner for their Nurture for Nature campaign, in a bid to encourage people to look after themselves by looking after the natural world this spring.

Dobbies Garden Centres, the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, has opened a brand new format store in Bristol – little dobbies.

Dobbies Garden Centres has teamed up with the UK’s largest nature conservation charity, the RSPB, to release its latest podcast episode.

Dobbies Garden Centres Group Limited (the “Group”) has filed the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Group and its subsidiaries. These accounts are for the 53 weeks to 1 March 2020.

The UK’s leading garden centre retailer, Dobbies, has partnered with surplus food app, Too Good To Go, in a bid to combat food waste across its stores.

Dobbies Gardren Centres has hit a major fundraising milestone, raising £1million for UK-wide charity, Teenage Cancer Trust.

Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre retailer announces the development of its first small format store – Little Dobbies.

Dobbies has announced its support for the Stroke Association; a charity which provides specialist support and funds critical research for people affected by stroke.

Dobbies Garden Centres announces an exclusive wholesale partnership with Sainsbury’s to bring a range of high quality food and grocery products to its centres.