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Blue Diamond launches exclusive Christmas Preview events

Blue Diamond Garden Centres will be welcoming customers to a series of exclusive Christmas preview evenings, marking the beginning of the Christmas 2025 season. These special events offer a first look at this year’s enchanting new themes, thoughtfully curated to inspire and delight.

 

Guests will be the first to experience this year’s themed festive displays while enjoying a complimentary glass of fizz and a mince pie. With a range of live entertainment and a choice of exclusive discounts across a wide selection of festive favourites.

 

Blue Diamond’s Group Events Manager Rebecca Gurnett says: “The countdown to Christmas starts now. Our preview evenings are the perfect way to get into the festive spirit and make a head start on all your Christmas shopping including decorations, homeware, gifts and food.”

 

Blue Diamond’s key design trend for 2025 is Timeless Elegance with another 3 distinct decoration themes Alpine Shimmer, Sweet Escape and Enchanted Woodland.  Customers can scan the QR code on each themed Christmas tree to link to a shopping list to help them recreate the Blue Diamond look at home.

 

Head of Christmas at Blue Diamond, Taylor Baines, says: “Nostalgia is a big trend for 2025 and we’ve really embraced the traditional look in our displays this year. There are lots of classic colours, velvet bows and decorations that look like they’ve been passed down through generations.

 

“Thanks to our handy get the look QR codes, it’s never been easier to shop the key trends. And as our decorations have been selected by our dedicated buying team, thousands of them are exclusive to Blue Diamond so you won’t find them anywhere else but here.”

 

The Timeless Elegance theme is a classic festive look complete with a red and gold colour palette, natural foliage and ornate Fabergé ornaments. For 2025, bows are a real design favourite.

 

Alpine Shimmer has a winter wonderland vibe filled with iridescent crystals, bold botanicals and velvet bows to create a serene and stylish look. For a real nostalgic treat, Sweet Escape is brimming with candy canes, gingerbread men and teddy bear decorations. Illuminated ornaments add an extra festive glow.

 

And Enchanted Woodland will transport you to a magical forest full of frosted fruit and berries, woodland creatures and festive foliage. It’s the perfect way to bring the beauty of the outdoors into your home this Christmas.

 

Shopping evening exclusive offers:

 

Diamond Club members will receive an exclusive offer on the evening. For every £50 spent, they will receive £5 loaded onto their Diamond Club card to use on their next visit.

 

Van Hage, Great Amwell & Frosts Woburn Sands will offer customers 10% off all departments during the shopping event.

 

Le Friquet customers will benefit from 20% off all departments during the shopping event.

 

The Exclusive Christmas Shopping Evenings will take place at 48 of its centres from 6pm-9pm on three chosen dates in October and November. 

 

Great Anwell, Van Hage and Le Friquet are all ticketed events. Customers can pre-book tickets here events.bluediamond.gg

 

 

Date: 9th October 2025

Locations: Van Hage Great Amwell, Blackdown, Beckworth Emporium.

 

Date: 16 October 2025

Locations: Brambridge, Bridgemere, Cardiff, Chenies, Derby, East Bridgford Garden & Home, Endsleigh, Melbicks, Mere Park, Newbridge Nurseries, Springfields Home & Garden, Trentham, Wilton House, Woburn Sands.

 

Date: 13 November 2025

Locations: 3 Shires, Beckworth Emporium, Bicester Avenue, Blackdown, Brambridge, Bridgemere, Cadbury, Canterbury, Cardiff, Chenies, Derby, East Bridgford Garden & Home, Endsleigh, Evesham, Fermoy's, Fosseway, Fryer's, Grosvenor, Harlestone Heath, Harlow, Hereford, Huntingdon, Le Friquet, Lower Morden, Matlock, Melbicks, Mere Park, Nailsworth, Newbridge Nurseries, Orchard Park, Percy Thrower's, Peterborough, Redfields Home of Garden & Living, Sanders, Springfields Home & Garden, Trelawney, Tunbridge Wells, Wilton House , Yarnton Home & Garden, World's End Garden Centre, Willington Garden Centre, Worcester.

 

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