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.
Garden centre chefs volunteer to cook school dinners in restaurant kitchens
The empty kitchens at Otter Garden Centres have been put to good use to support schools in the region needing meals for children still attending.
All Otter garden centres and restaurants are now closed to the public in line with government guidance. But this didn’t stop two chefs volunteering to make...
Otter Garden Centre in Brixton in Plymouth raised over £3,550 for local charity Shekinah Mission which will help maintain a 365-day service at the charity’s Drop In Centre on Bath Street.
Donations came from a variety of events and initiatives, from the collecting tins at the tills to staff raffles, plus a visit from traditional woodturners who generously donated £350. In addition, the...
The charity team at Otter Garden Centres Plymouth has announced the total raised for its charity of the year 2018.
Over £3,200 pounds was raised for Dementia Friendly Parishes Around the Yealm through raffles, face painting, a visit from woodturners and an animated singing penguin display.
Chair of the charity, Liz Hitchins said: “Everyone at Otter Garden Centres has been...
