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Treat Mum to the ultimate gift duo this Sunday 🥰💐 Pair one of our stunning new vases with fresh flowers or one of our beautiful faux floral bouquets—see our previous post for them! ✨ ...

🌱 Helping Jersey Grow for 60 Years 🌱 At Ransoms, gardening isn’t just a business; it’s in our genes. As we celebrate our 60th anniversary this year, we’re taking a look back at the roots of our story—starting with a legacy grown at the world-renowned Kew Gardens. The seeds of our knowledge were sown across three generations of Kew graduates.

🌱 Start a century ago with Donald Ransom. Donald honed his craft at Kew, getting certified in 1925, before venturing from England to become the head gardener on the island of Herm. His journey eventually led him to Jersey’s own Samarès Manor, where he grew more than just plants—he grew a life, marrying Beryl Touzel and planting the Ransom family’s permanent stakes in local soil.

🌿 Donald`s passion was passed directly to his son, David Ransom. Following in his father’s footsteps, graduating from Kew. Eventually David returned to Jersey with a vision, laying the foundation for the Ransoms Garden Centre you know today.

🌳 The family legacy came full circle when David’s daughter, Rebecca, also graduated from Kew, ensuring that three generations of world-class knowledge would continue to flourish right here in Jersey. In 2002 Rebecca, along with her sister Katherine, takes over Ransoms Garden Centre from their parents.

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We’ll be sharing more of our history every week for the coming months, but we want to hear from you. Do you have a favourite memory of the centre or old photos of Ransoms? We would love to see and share them! Share your photos in the comments below! 👇 ...

Beautiful new faux floral bouquets have just arrived—in time for Mother`s Day! 💐💟 Six beautiful arrangements to choose from; they come prewrapped, ready to make Mum`s day! 🥰 These will last forever and look even better than cut flowers.

Don`t forget to pick up a box of chocolates, a card, and a home fragrance, or one of our many other lovely Mother`s Day gifts! 💝 ...

Cheers to Mums! 🍋🍹 Treat Mum to a beautiful lemon or lime tree, a stylish set of drinking glasses and, naturally, a bottle of gin this Mother’s Day. 💝

Our outdoor plant team also offers a complimentary potting service: simply choose your plant, pot, and compost, and we’ll pot it up for you—perfectly presented and ready to gift. 🪴🎀 ...

🌸 To mark International Women’s Day and the start of our trip down memory lane celebrating 60 years of Ransoms: Who remembers Alice Sales and Bobbin the blue and gold macaw at the Garden Centre?

Without Alice Sales, Janet Ransom’s mother, there would not be a Ransoms Garden Centre on the site of Grasford in St Martin.

Alice and her husband Fred Sales moved from London to Jersey in the early sixties. Alice was a diminutive but formidable woman who had made some clever investments after the war, and Fred was a master saddler.

Alice fell in love with Grasford, the 15th century farm on which Ransoms has evolved—it also provided a place for Fred to set up his saddlery business.

In London Alice ran a pet shop on Abingdon Road, South Kensington, accompanied by Bobbin, her blue and gold macaw. 🦜 In Jersey, Bobbin would frequently fly freely from tree to tree around the Garden Centre parameters, and we’re sure some of you might still remember this sight. ...