Essex Tourist Guide Blog

Perrywood Garden Centre is supporting Suffolk based designer and author Lucy Hutchings with her edible allotment garden. It’s an exciting design that will be brought to life at the RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival in July.

As part of its sustainability drive, Perrywood Tiptree have worked with CambridgeHOK to install three brand new Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs). These will save an estimated 79 tonnes of CO_² emissions a year, which is the equivalent to the average yearly emissions of ten people in the UK.

Across Essex, we have seen more than ever the joy and therapeutic benefits that gardening can bring to people’s lives. Perrywood aims to get more people growing in 2021. They will be supporting two charities and a community interest company who use gardening to help vulnerable groups, including refugees, the unemployed, adults with mental health issues and children.

In spite of 2020 being a challenging year, Perrywood Tiptree has raised over £10,000 for its charities of the year. This year, they are Colchester & Ipswich Hospitals Charity, Kids Inspire and Greenfingers Charity. The funds were raised throughout the year across a range of activities involving staff and customers.

South Essex train operator c2c has recognised the efforts its community has made during the coronavirus crisis with a Local Heroes awards scheme.

Nominate your local community hero

We’ve seen great community spirit over the last few months as people have gone above and beyond to help others out during the Coronavirus crisis, and c2c Rail would like to say thank you to those people, but they need your help.

The Perrywood team visited the offices of Colchester Hospital on Friday with a donation of £350 houseplants. Staff from the hospital were ready and waiting for this special delivery!

Far beyond the glitzy, glamorous streets of Essex, and far past the bustling shops and cultural venues, there lies a wonderfully rural county of working farms and rich agricultural history.

Tiptree based Perrywood Garden Centre is celebrating tremendous success at the National Garden Centre Association (GCA) Conference this week, the industry’s most prestigious event of the year for UK garden centres.