Sunlight breaking through the trees in the New Forest
For the past 50 years, Hillier plant expert, Ricky Dorlay, has prepared the plant material for the Hillier Chelsea exhibit. This would be tricky enough for just one species, but Ricky’s challenge is to personally manage the growing season of over 200 trees and plants – from birch trees, flowering cherries to scented garden roses, […]
Michael Buck and Pedro Mayor are the show plant managers for Hortus Loci, growing plants for the 2015 Chelsea Flower Show. “We grow roughly 10,000 plants per designer to get the best quality we can for the 3,500 plants per garden,” says Michael, showing the sheer scale of the operation of their Hampshire nursery. The […]
Some would say that Sparsholt College’s 2015 RHS Chelsea Flower Show sponsor is every beer lovers’ dream. The College has partnered up with Wadworth brewery to tell the historic story of the hop, which for centuries has been enjoyed in many a refreshing pint of beer. So if you didn’t know your Fuggle from your […]
Spring will soon be here and the Chelsea Flower Show team at Hortus Loci are flat out again tending to more than 30,000 plants which are being grown for four of the major show gardens at the 2015 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Hortus Loci expertise was sought by none other than the Matthew Keightley, designer of […]
Gaze Burvill will launch their new ‘Splash Lounge’ range at the 2015 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Simon Burvill said: “This new Splash Lounge Collection by co-founder of Gaze Burvill, designer Christian Gaze, has a luxurious, indulgent and contemporary feel, perfect for urban and country terraces and those outdoor-indoor spaces which have become so much a […]
There is always something new to marvel at on the Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants stand at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and in 2015 this remains true. In addition to Rosy’s mesmerising display of faithful herbaceous perennials, visitors also come to see newer introductions and of course the brand new plants getting their 1st outings […]
All systems go at Hardy’s Hampshire Nursery as the Chelsea Flower Show juggernaut rolls on with thousands of plants in and out of hot houses, being coaxed on and held back. Rosy Hardy says, “it never gets easier, every year is different to the one that preceded it so there is no pattern for success […]
Sparsholt College Hampshire has formed a partnership with global packaging company Huhtamaki which will give their 2014 RHS Chelsea Flower garden, The Paper Chase, a truly sustainable theme. Huhtamaki’s environmentally friendly BioWare packaging range runs through every element of the College’s garden for the forthcoming flower show. The manufacturing process and green credentials have inspired […]
Come the third week in May, four Main Avenue gardens will be resplendent with Hortus Loci plants and trees. This year Hortus Loci MD’s Robin Wallis and Mark Straver are backing the crop of ‘young gun’ designers whose work seems to be creating the biggest buzz in 2014. Matthew Childs won best in show at […]
All new introductions from Whitchurch-based Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants this year are from home-grown breeders and each plant has unusual and perhaps novel attributes. GAURA lindheimeri “Freefolk Rosy” Bred by hardy’s this is a variegated form of Gaura “Rosy Jane” Originally a sport from the parent plant, which has been checked for stability over several […]
