{"id":676508,"date":"2026-07-06T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676508\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:42:08","slug":"broadland-nurseries-garden-centre-announces-its-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676508\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadland Nurseries garden centre announces its closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Broadland Nurseries, in Ormesby St Michael, near Great Yarmouth, has announced that it will stop trading.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The owners said: &#8220;We have decided to call it a day. The joy of growing and selling plants has been taken away by the stress and pressure of running a small business in this economy.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ahead of the closure, the business will be having a closing down sale which starts on Tuesday, July 7.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Broadland Nurseries in Ormesby St Michael is closing down. (Image: Broadland Nurseries\/Facebook)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  All items including trees, shrubs, plants, compost and pots will be half price.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We will be open everyday for the next few weeks so don\u2019t leave it too late,&#8221; the business said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Three years ago, the nursery&#8217;s owners applied for planning permission to change the use of half the site, where they used to grow ornamental conifers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/23474701.new-30-plot-campsite-planned-ormesby-saint-michael\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">to build a 30-plot campsite and caravan park<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  At the time, they said: &#8220;In recent years it has become increasingly difficult to compete with plants grown on an industrial scale, both in the Fens and from the Netherlands.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They later dropped the plans after a cascade of objections from neighbours concerned about the impact on the local environment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Broadland Nurseries has been owned by the same family since 1912.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It was originally established as a small holding and market garden with greenhouses being erected on part of the site from 1940.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  All of the nursery&#8217;s plants are grown in compost which they mix themselves and they described as a &#8220;secret recipe&#8221; that was handed down through the family for many years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Avenue Fabrics, which is also located on the site, will continue trading as normal and is not affected by the closure of the plant nursery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broadland Nurseries, in Ormesby St Michael, near Great Yarmouth, has announced that it will stop trading. The owners&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-676508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}