Trends · data through September 2026

Specialty Stores in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 1,571 stores from 1,448 specialty store chains in the United Kingdom. Force 4 Chandlery grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Brewers and Wyevale Garden Centre.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
1,448
Tracked stores
1,571
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked specialty store chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Force 4 Chandlery and Brewers sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Force 4 Chandlery logo Force 4 Chandlery ▲1 +17.1%
2 B Brewers logo Brewers ▲2 +13.6%
3 W Wyevale Garden Centre - +8.9%
4 B Brookside Garden Centre - +8.1%
5 O Otter Nurseries - -0.6%
6 N Nickel & Dime - -0.7%
7 S Seasons Garden Centre ▼1 -5.6%
8 P Palmers Garden Centre ▼2 -16.4%
  • Woodthorpe Garden Centre
  • Blue Diamond Garden Centres
  • St John's Garden Centre
  • Wyevale Garden Centre
  • Blackbrooks Garden Centre
  • Burford Garden Company
  • Guitar Guitar
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,571 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Woodthorpe Garden Centre (1)
  • Blue Diamond Garden Centres (2)
  • St John's Garden Centre (1)
  • Wyevale Garden Centre (3)
  • Blackbrooks Garden Centre (2)
  • Burford Garden Company (1)
  • Guitar Guitar (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 N Nickel & Dime 7
  • 2 B Brewers logo Brewers 6
  • 3 P PaintWell logo PaintWell 5
  • 4 L London Decorators Merchants logo London Decorators Merchants 4
  • 5 B Brookside Garden Centre 3
  • 6 O Otter Garden Centre 3
  • 7 P Palmers Garden Centre 3
  • 8 S Seasons Garden Centre 3
  • 9 O Otter Nurseries 3
  • 10 W Wyevale Garden Centre 3
  • 11 F Force 4 Chandlery logo Force 4 Chandlery 3
  • 12 W Wye Valley Country Store 2
  • 13 S Simpsons Garden Centre 2
  • 14 B Baskets and Blooms 2
  • 15 F Fairways Garden Centre 2
  • 16 C Castle Nurseries 2
  • 17 B Blackbrooks Garden Centre logo Blackbrooks Garden Centre 2
  • 18 L Longacres Garden Centre logo Longacres Garden Centre 2
  • 19 C Creative Gardens 2
  • 20 G Guitar Guitar logo Guitar Guitar 2
  • 21 G Garforth Garden Centre 2
  • 22 B Biza Tax & Duty Free 2
  • 23 O Otter Garden Centres 2
  • 24 T Tripp logo Tripp 2
  • 25 D Denby 2
  • 26 W World of Water Aquatic Centre logo World of Water Aquatic Centre 2
  • 27 T The Floor Room 2
  • 28 B Beauty Queen Cosmetics logo Beauty Queen Cosmetics 2
  • 29 B Blue Diamond Garden Centres logo Blue Diamond Garden Centres 2
  • 30 F Futura 2
  • 31 B Brick Kiln Garden Centre 1
  • 32 M Minshull's logo Minshull's 1
  • 33 N Notcutts Oxford 1
  • 34 T The Old Well Garden Centre 1
  • 35 R Raemoir Garden Centre 1
  • 36 B B A B Motors Ltd 1
  • 37 O Old Railway Line Garden Centre 1
  • 38 L Lymefield Garden Centre and Tea Rooms 1
  • 39 B Boots Hearingcare Eastbourne 1
  • 40 A Ashley Waller Auctions 1
  • 41 F Fareham Blinds 1
  • 42 R Rouken Glen Garden Centre 1
  • 43 T The Gardening Club 1
  • 44 F First Choice Building Supplies 1
  • 45 H High Legh Garden Centre 1
  • 46 R Ramsgate Garden Centre logo Ramsgate Garden Centre 1
  • 47 C Charnwood Signs 1
  • 48 C Carr Farm Garden Centre 1
  • 49 H Hampsons Plantworld 1
  • 50 B Belton Garden Centre 1

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