Otter Garden Centres is an established family-run garden centre business celebrating the very best of gardening, home and leisure.

Our first garden centre was founded in Ottery St Mary in the early 1960s, when Malcolm and Marilyn White began growing vegetables and plants to sell in East Devon markets, whilst living on site in a tiny caravan. We’ve come a long way since then. Our Ottery St Mary garden centre has grown to become one of the largest in the UK and we have added four more garden centres in Plymouth, Torbay, Wincanton, Somerset and Lymington, Hampshire. All our centres reflect our enduring enthusiasm for plants and gardening.

Otter Garden Centres grows over 80% of the plants we sell in our own nurseries. From bedding plants to camellias, roses to poinsettias, our growers are committed to growing the highest quality plants for our customers. We even offer a two-year guarantee on our hardy plants. You can also buy trees, native and exotic.

And if you need advice, our expert teams are always on hand to help you. Whether you want to know what grows best in your soil, what to plant when, how to keep your borders or pots looking wonderful for a longer season, which trees are good for the size of your garden, you will receive advice from those that know. Our blog also includes helpful gardening tips, so visit each month to see what you should be doing.

All our garden centres offer more than plants, with a wide choice of lifestyle purchases including clothing and footwear, cookware, crafts, gifts and much more. At Christmas all our branches are transformed, and our Ottery centre is a must-visit for its stunning Christmas displays as well as the popular Magical Kingdom, where children have been coming for years to meet Santa.

After more than 50 years we are proud to still be a family-run business, with not just the founders, but their daughters and grandchildren involved in the day-to-day running of our garden centres.