Working at Wyevale

About Us

Wyevale Garden Centres originated as a local nursery in Hereford in the 1930's, when plants were sold bare-root by mail order only during the dormant season.

This was before the owner, Henry Williamson visited the United States and saw garden centres operating all year round because they were selling plants surrounded by soil in containers. Swiftly understanding the possibilities for his company, Harry sourced reject jam tins from a local factory to sell some of the first 'potted plants', and opened his first garden centre in 1967.

As well as tins, clay pots and hide pots were used in the 1960's and it was the introduction of inexpensive polythene pots that set the garden centre industry on its feet. Taking advantage of this development, Harry began to open new Wyevale Garden Centres in the south midlands. Today, there are over 120 Wyevale Garden Centres nationwide, including our store in Hereford.

Plants and horticulture are still at the heart of our company, and a large number of the people who work in our plant sales departments are horticulturally trained, or keen gardeners with over 20 years experience. Each year over 28,000 different varieties of trees, shrubs, bedding plants and houseplants are chosen by our horticultural team who work closely with the UK's top growers and seed suppliers, selecting the very best for our centres.

Gardening today is a wide ranging activity from real enthusiasts who grow specialist plants from seed to families for whom the garden is an outdoor room to decorate and furnish in their own style.

At Wyevale we understand the different needs of our customers so offer a wide range of gardening products from propagation trays, gardening tools and watering equipment to garden furniture, barbeques and outdoor lanterns.

Whatever your style of gardening, you can be confident visiting a Wyevale store that there will be a great range of plants and products to choose from, and our staff will be keen to help you to get the most from your garden.

Careers at Wyevale

As a retailer dedicated to providing our customers with an excellent shopping experience and good customer service we know that we are only as good as the people we employ. That’s why we need people like YOU !

Our aim is to give our customers “everything they need to live the garden life”. This means that our products and services must be a combination of natural, healthy, fresh, organic, green and…….. stylish.

If these words appeal to you and inspire you, then you could be exactly the type of person we need to give our customers what we know they want.

As a fast growing, privately owned business we can offer great job satisfaction and wonderful career opportunities, whether you want a full or part time role.

Our customers constantly tell us they want us to be “different” and provide goods and services that they cannot find elsewhere. It is vital that we are unique and the best way for us to do that is to ensure we recruit the best and most uniquely talented people.

Our recruitment and selection process is designed to find out if you possess the right talent for us and that we are the right company for you. If you do join the Wyevale team you are in for an exciting time. We love the products we sell and are committed to doing this with improved service and by investing in our people and our stores.

Current Vacancies

Click here to see a list of our current vacancies
If you want to find out more about us please go to www.wyevale.co.uk
or even better visit some of our stores.

I hope you will ‘grow with us’.