Sunlight breaking through the trees in the New Forest
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 […]
Mark Straver and Robin Wallis, MD’s of Hortus Loci, have chosen world class, multi Award winning landscape architect and good friend Ulf Nordfjell to come up with a landscape design for their rapidly expanding business at Hook in Hampshire. Nordfjell has worked with Mark Straver many times over the past few years and trusts him […]
Whitchurch based Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants exhibit at the big RHS shows but they also take time to participate in local Hampshire plant fairs and one that is especially important for Rosy and Rob Hardy is the Longstock Plant & Gift Fair which takes place on 8 September at Longstock Park Nursery on the Leckford […]
Hampshire horticulturalists Robin Wallis and Mark Straver are from Hook-based nursery Hortus Loci. You may not have heard of them because the retail side of their business goes under a different name -Whitewater Nursery and Garden Centre, but they are the ‘go-to’ people for many top garden designers at Chelsea Flower Show. Chelsea 2012 really put […]
Jinny Blom is no stranger to designing Chelsea show gardens for the royals. In 2002 she designed the Healing Garden in collaboration with HRH Prince Charles, but in 2013 it is the turn of his son, HRH Prince Harry and his charity, Sentebale. Creating a Chelsea show garden is no easy task. She tells us […]
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 […]
