Otter Garden Centres

A green-fingered youngster from Ottery St Mary has been named the outright winner of Otter Garden Centres ’ sunflower growing competition.

5 year-old Lucy Randall’s sunflower grew to an incredible 4.48 metres – that’s taller than a double decker bus!

Asked how she managed to grow to the monster plant, Lucy said that after planting the sunflower seeds in pots using compost from...

South West gardening business Otter Garden Centres is delighted to announce the winner of its ‘Make a Scarecrow’ competition.

Laura Gaiger from West Hill was awarded the top spot for her characterful scarecrow, which she named Otto.

Laura, who is deaf and partially sighted, was supported in her creative efforts by Gayle McGoldrick from charity Sense, which provides services for...

South West gardening business Otter Garden Centres is running a summer competition with a fantastic top prize.

The ‘Make a Scarecrow’ competition gives participants the chance to win a British-made Elite greenhouse worth £1000.

Gardening enthusiasts and imaginative creators young and old are invited to take part and enter their scarecrow designs, which will be judged by...

Otter Garden Centres has made a massive leap in its journey to improving eco-credentials by switching from plastic to paper carrier bags.

What’s more, the family-run business, which has seven branches across the South of England, has donated the money raised from the sale of plastic bags over the past two years to Devon Environment Foundation, which funds a variety of grassroots...

Otter Garden Centre in Ottery St Mary is delighted to announce a total of over £3,300 raised for charity of the year Brain Tumour Support .

The figure was achieved through a variety of fundraising activities, including the annual Christmas Wish Tree and collection cans at till points. The Otter team also put together a number of staff events such as quiz and bingo evenings which were...

Otter Garden Centres is giving children a real incentive to grow their own sunflowers this year and the chance to win some great prizes.

Parents and grandparents can collect the seeds from any of the company’s seven branches located in Devon, Somerset and Hampshire.

Otter Garden Centres MD, Jacqui Taylor says “Everybody loves sunflowers, they’re easy to grow, lovely to look at...

Locals and visitors to Ottery St Mary should spot a little extra colour in the town after Otter Garden Centre planted up some containers for St Saviours bridge.

Group Bedding Plants Manager Richard Lovering and his team brought eight troughs to the bridge, filled with a cheerful mix of polyanthus plants in purple and yellow. They added some red tulips too, so there will be an...

This year there’s going to be a glut of delicious vegetables at a vocational learning centre in Broadclyst, thanks to Otter Garden Centres.

The garden centre in Ottery St Mary donated a box chock full of packets of seeds after MD Jacqui Taylor received a request from Heathfield Farm Project Manager, Karen Adamson.

Karen explained: “We were getting ready to plant the seeds we...

Scouts from the 1st Ottery St Mary Scout Group have been busy potting up sunflower seeds donated by Otter Garden Centres to grow flowers that will help show support for Ukraine.

The sunflowers will be mixed with blue geraniums in planters around the war memorial to create the colours of the Ukraine flag. Sunflowers have been grown in Ukraine since the 1700s before becoming the country’...

The mystery of disappearing fish at Otter Garden Centres in Ottery St Mary has been solved after eagle eyed team members spotted an unexpected visitor.

It began after a large Koi carp went missing from the onsite pond in the plant area. Two days’ later, another disappeared. After a third vanished, part of its remains were found hidden nearby.

Otter’s fish expert Jim Walker...