Squire's Garden Centres

1936

D.J. Squire incorporated his landscaping and gardening business having been made redundant from the Police Orphanage in Twickenham.

1939

Squire’s nurseries were turned over to war time food production.

1945

Towards the end of World War II, prisoners of war and land girls worked in the nurseries.

1950 

D.J. Squire built up the landscaping business and by the end of the 1950s had a full fleet of vans and a large team of skilled craftsmen.

1964

Colin Squire opened our first garden centre at Twickenham, which was one of only a handful across the country at the time.

1975

A rose nursery at Shepperton was acquired and we opened a garden centre on the site.

1984

Hersham was added to the growing list of centres and built around old farm buildings

1989

Chertsey was the next centre to join the Squire’s group.

1990

A site in Woking was acquired.

1993

Our Twickenham garden centre was rebuilt.

1996

Moving into Berkshire, the Windsor centre joined Squire’s, together with West Horsley near Leatherhead with a Herbaceous & Bedding Plant Nursery.

1998

A devastating fire badly damaged Hersham which had to be largely rebuilt.

2000

Charlie Dimmock officially opened the new Hersham centre. Centres at Reigate and Crawley joined the group.

2003

We built a new state of the art garden centre at a site in Long Ditton near Kingston that was officially opened by Kim Wild.

2005

The site at Crawley was redeveloped and a brand new centre emerged, opened by Bob Flowerdew.

2006

A large garden centre at Badshot Lea near Farnham joined the group, to become a flagship store.

2010

Old buildings were knocked down at Shepperton to make way for a stunning new centre.

2011

Squire’s acquired 3 additional sites from the Shoots Group, extending operations to Washington, Stanmore and Cobham.

2013

The latest addition to the group is Milford, previously ‘Secretts

2015

Squire’s celebrated exhibiting every year for 25 years at the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show. Our show garden ‘Urban Oasis’ won a Silver Gilt Medal.

2015

Colin Squire was awarded one of the highest honours in the gardening industry – the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) Pearson Memorial Medal.

2016

Twickenham won GCA Ruxley Rose Award for the best plant department in the UK.

2016

Squire’s won a Gold Medal at RHS Hampton Court Flower Show for ‘Squire’s Anniversary Garden’.

2017

We opened our Chertsey centre in March, following a 1.3m rebuild.

2017

Refurbished and extended our Hersham centre, including a stylish new Café Bar.

2017

Squire’s was awarded the ‘Best Garden centre’ accolade at the Express Home and Living Awards 2017.

2018

Charlie Dimmock officially re-opened our Woking centre following a rebuild.

2018

A site in Frensham was acquired.

2019

After 30 years as Chairman and more than five decades in the business, Colin Squire OBE takes on the role of Chairman Emeritus and Sarah Squire is appointed Chairman.

2019

A site in Wokingham, Berkshire, was acquired.

2021

Squire’s Garden Centres celebrates its 85^th anniversary this year. To honour the occasion, each of our centres created an anniversary garden, for customers to enjoy.