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A backyard centre has entered administration after eight years of enterprise. Leaf Creative, in Huntley, Gloucestershire, filed for administration final Friday (February 27) and now has new homeowners.

The centre was based by award-winning backyard designer Peter Dowle in 2018. It sells a wide range of crops, affords backyard design and landscaping companies, and has an on-site cafe known as The Fernery. The backyard centre, which promotes native produce and focuses on 100% peat-free compost, additionally has a web-based store.

However, the enterprise appointed Brett Lee Barton and David Meldrum, of BK Plus Limited, as joint directors after turning into bancrupt. It has been confirmed that Leaf Creative stays open to the general public and is now underneath the possession of Blue Diamond Garden Centres.

Leaf Creative lists various companies on its web site, together with its plant retailer, backyard design, backyard development, and tree occasion rent. The Fernery, which is open from Monday to Saturday, additionally sells a variety of drinks in addition to cold and warm meals.

The backyard centre hosts occasions, lessons and workshops all year long. These embody terrarium-making, wreath-making, month-to-month “Leaflings” kids’s golf equipment, and horticultural talks.

The Leaf Creative web site states: “Leaf Creative is the place to go to find fabulous, unusual plant specimens that can inject structure, colour and texture into your garden. We pride ourselves on stocking specialist plants that are rarely found in a conventional garden centre.

​”Leaf Creative at Huntley had its origin in our founding nursery at Howle Hill and grew from there. We are nonetheless nurturing and rising the ‘large concept’. We supply and develop unimaginable crops, and create ever-changing new areas for folks to expertise at their leisure.

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​”We also provide a place where you can meet and discuss your garden projects directly with our designers. Leaf Creative has a real sense of personality, where gardening and landscaping expertise combine with aspirational gardening design.”

The backyard centre additionally has various optimistic evaluations on Facebook. One particular person mentioned it’s “not your average garden centre” because it has a “fabulous atmosphere” and sells “fabulous plants”.

A second agreed: “Great plants, well presented in lovely surroundings. The café is really nice and realistically priced. The shop had some great plant related products and garden accessories. Will definitely be back.”

Blue Diamond Garden Centres is without doubt one of the largest backyard centre teams within the UK. It at the moment operates 52 websites and has round 4,700 employees.

The firm started as a fruit vendor within the Channel Islands in 1904. It has since transitioned into retail gardening however continues to be managed in Guernsey.

Blue Diamond Garden Centres have been approached for remark.