Garden Centre Group opens fourth centre in Ballyclare

Creative Gardens has been listed alongside 13 other Northern Ireland companies as the one of the most inspirational UK firms with its centres in Donaghadee, Bushmills, Galgorm Castle and now at the former Logwood Mill Garden Centre in Ballyclare.

“It does perhaps seem a strange thing to do given the uncertainly prosed by Covid and Brexit,” confessed Jenny Dumigan the youngest of the Gass Family who own and run the centres. “But the opportunity came along and we couldn’t resist it. Logwood is a long-term investment for us and we are confident it will be a huge success.”

Jenny continued: “My parents started the business close to 40 years ago and my two brothers Philip and Oliver and I are really keen to carry it on to the next level. We just love the changing seasons and the wonderful range of products a garden centre sells represent that so well.

“We spend a huge amount of time and effort presenting our beautiful plants and gardening products to help inspire our customers, we love to create interesting displays and use as much colour as possible with everything that we do. Our coffee shops are places to relax and enjoy delicious homemade food, we make almost everything we sell in our cafes ourselves freshly each day.

Creative Gardens now has four stunning centres with huge plant areas and cafes covering much of Northern Irelands population, it employs 230 people and expects turnover to exceed £10m in its next financial year.

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