Love Your Local: From his grandparents sowing hope during WWII to a thriving garden lifestyle empire, Robin Mercer BEM, owner of Hillmount Garden Centre, celebrates 85 years of a blooming marvellous fourth-generation family business
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00:00Hello, I'm Robin Mercer. I'm the owner of Hillmount, which is one of the largest family garden centres in Northern Ireland.
00:09It's a fourth generation garden centre and started in 1940.
00:14It's been a change from a market garden to now we're actually selling everything from plants to barbecues, garden furniture.
00:24We have a 230 seater cafe, which is very popular.
00:28And the addition then is we've actually added on another garden centre in Bangor, one in Ards and recently one in Carrick.
00:38It's been the latest one and it's been very, very popular.
00:43Other items that we are stocking now, and really it's amazing just the way things have changed.
00:49Crest lawnmowers, which is robotic lawnmowers and even for the children, the jelly cat.
00:56So good fun and I must say we really enjoy the garden centre.