With 60th anniversary celebrations well underway, the team at Otter Garden Centres were delighted to be contacted by the business’s first ever employee.
Nigel Blackmore visited the Ottery St Mary garden centre to meet up with founders Marilyn and Malcolm White, who employed him as a youngster.
Nigel, who will be 76 in August, grew up around Combelake and Fenny Bridges near...
Otter Garden Centres has collaborated with a popular designer to produce an exclusive limited edition Royal Worcester mug as part of celebrations for its 60th anniversary.
The pretty design is the creation of Hannah Dale, the talented artist behind the well-known, award-winning Wrendale brand, which produces greeting cards, stationery and giftware.
A talented Devon author will be at Otter Garden Centre in Ottery St Mary to sign copies of her exciting new mystery novel, A Devon Midwinter Murder .
It's the seventh book in Stephanie Austin’s Devon Mysteries series, which is set in Ashburton and features ‘domestic goddess’ and amateur sleuth, Juno Browne.
The series, which includes Dead in Devon and The Dartmoor Murders, was...
A hardworking bunch from Ottery and Otter Garden Centres came together to put up this year’s Christmas tree.
It’s the tallest yet, standing at around 19 feet. The tree was grown on the garden centre’s Christmas tree plantation in East Devon and is a particularly lovely specimen.
This year the Town Council ordered new decorations, which were supplied by Otter’s Christmas shop....
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...