Sunlight breaking through the trees in the New Forest
The 2013 Chelsea Flower Show will again have a significant Hortus Loci stamp of excellence on tens of thousands of the plants supplied for the top show gardens, smaller gardens and many of the star trade stands including Alitex and Gaze Burvill who are collaborating for 2013. With just over one year of trading under […]
In typical Hardy’s style, plans are well under way for their grand pavilion display for the 2013 Chelsea Flower Show. This show will be especially important to Rosy and Rob as they will be celebrating their own quarter of a century as one of Britain’s most celebrated herbaceous perennial nurseries. Continual winners of coveted RHS […]
Visitors to the newly revamped and revitalized Whitewater Nursery near Hook in Hampshire have access to more than 4000 plants courtesy of the affiliation with sister enterprise Hortus Loci, however there is one particular plant that has got the team at Hortus Loci/Whitewater very excited. Rosmarinus officinalis ‘Whitewater Silver’ is being prepared to debut at […]
Not content to sit on their laurels and bask in the success of their gold medal haul that included ‘Best in Show’ and the ‘People’s Choice’ at the Chelsea Flower Show 2012, Robin Wallis and Mark Straver are firing on all cylinders at their Hook nursery and have produced in excess of 10,000 plants for […]
Plant and tree experts Mark Straver and Robin Wallis are developing a plant centre of excellence in Hampshire. Hortus Loci is the brain child of horticultural heavy weights Mark and Robin who between them have over 50 years experience working in UK horticulture and both of whom are 3rd generation nurserymen. Situated on a 17 […]
April hail showers didn’t make life easy for Rosy and Robert Hardy in the run up to the 2012 Chelsea Flower Show. Rosy says it’s been a matter of ‘fleece on and fleece off’, especially with the large leafed plants which require a lot of protection from the elements. In addition to growing for their […]
Sparsholt College student Helen Parsons has designed the greenhouse interior and surrounding gardens for the Country Greenhouses RHS Chelsea Flower Show exhibit. She won a design competition by the Petersfield based company to help them create their 8m x 8m stand, featuring a 3m x 5m greenhouse. Competition entries were submitted from students studying for […]
The Jubilee Spiral by Alton based Gaze Burvill has been shortlisted for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show Garden Product of the Year 2012. In celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the Jubilee Spiral seating can be placed around a small tree or sculpture, or displayed in its own right. Craftsman-made for optimum comfort, this piece […]
Students from Testbourne Community School in Whitchurch will be taking part in the new Chelsea Fringe Festival. Their creation ‘The Wheelie Garden’ will be taking to the streets of London for two days in May and the team will be joining other horticulture enthusiasts who want to bring the joys of gardening to a wider […]
“Each plant has to have at least three uses, such as aromatic, medicinal and culinary” For horticulture lecturer Chris Bird, it’s a chance to take a budding new team of second year students to the show off their skills at the greatest flowers show on Earth – the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. A team of […]
