Awards

Awards and Achivements

Williamson Design Florist

Scotland’s and the UK’s largest, and longest established, independent retail florist is owned by the Williamson family who are all actively involved in the day to day running of the business. Jim Williamson Managing Director of the company, bases himself at the core of the companies activities at our garden centre, Beechwood Nurseries.

Having been born and brought up on the site, the business is you could say “in the blood”. Fourth generation within the industry, Jim has personally taken the business to dizzying heights of success. With distinction in city & guilds floristry examinations, he went on to become the youngest ever to win the British Florist of The Year competition not once but twice, the youngest to hold the National Diploma of the Society of Floristry, and twice represented the UK and gained 6th place in the World Florist of the Year competition held every 4 years.

He has had enormous influence on the florist industry and its development of design led floristry over the years, having contributed to industry standards and designed for many world wide design publications.

More recently he has devoted his expertise along with his sister Carol to expanding the company to now be the largest independent retail florist in the country. Much of this expansion has been driven by the need to deliver quality products of good design to our customers through out the central belt of Scotland and in to the North of Fife, Perthshire and most recently Dundee and Angus. Many of our branches have been long established florist businesses with whom we had a good relationship to the benefit of our customers. On the retirement of some of these businesses we have stepped in, to continue the businesses to the benefit of our customers so that we may offer an exceptional standard through out a large part of the country. This is what we feel our customer expects and deserves.