Behind the Scenes at RHS Chelsea Flower Show

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It has been a whirlwind the last few days as we’ve gotten ourselves ready at the RHS Chelsea Flower show. There has been a lot going on as people get their displays ready and their plants and flowers planted. Here are some behind the scenes snaps of what goes on before everyone comes to visit.
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We’ve got our display all put together above and are really pleased with our plants, they are looking absolutely gorgeous! Just hope the judges like it now!

It’s a great atmosphere already around here, hope to see some of you over the week. Don’t forget, we are in the Great Pavilion if you want to pop by!

RHS Spring Malvern Show

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The start of our Malvern Show prep saw us in with snow and hail in our garden! Can you even believe it? Luckily we had great weather for most of the weekend to make up for it. Here are some photos if you weren’t able to make it.

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Plants ready for Malvern

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Lots of quality nurseries around us in the floral marquee. Mickfield hostas to the front of us, National collection holders like us

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Visitors from fibrex nurseries (ferns & ivy nursery also national collections )

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Pheasant acre with another gold medal also national collection holders of dahlias

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Chrysanthemum direct lovely gold medal winning display

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Beautiful primulas national collection holders

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Hill view did a pretty display. National collection holders of auriclulas

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Craig house cactus

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Fernatix display beautiful gold medal

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Delphiniums & begonias blackmore and Langdon. Now for a bit of fun I asked each exhibitor to pop for me, Blackmore & Langdon did!!

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Hardy, gold medal too. Fab sales table full of delights

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Broomfield hostas gold medal

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Every picture gold medal display and a scary crocodile! Also national collection holders

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Thursday morning we were thrilled to get our gold medal!

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Richard all ready for the day ahead, as I head off back home to do some jobs. Packing up lots of orders and potting these little ones in the photo below.

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It was a great show weekend, some fantastic displays on offer. Now, to get ready for Chelsea!

 

We Will Be At RHS Malvern Spring Festival

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We will be attending the RHS Malvern Spring Festival the 5-8th of May and will be in the Floral Marquee, stand number FM718.

If you are coming to the show and would like to order plants to collect to save on postage, please use the click and collect on our website. To do this, once you are finished shopping, at the checkout  under additional information where it asks “Would you like to collect from a show or the nursery?” use the drop down menu to choose the correct option. This is located after you input your shipping information. After you have chosen this you will then need to choose ‘collection from show or nursery £0’ as the shipping method. Then proceed with your order. Orders must be received by Sunday!

We hope to see you there!

Harrogate Flower Show

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We had a great few days at Harrogate flower show this past weekend. There were some stunning displays and we even had some sun! We worked hard to get our display up for judging and then admired the rest of displays on show.

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We are pleased to announced that we got a Premier Gold Award for our display and a nice bit of silver to accompany it. We are off to a great start to the season!

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Some of the displays and plants for sale

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All in all another great weekend, and thank you to everyone who stopped by and said hello.

RHS Cardiff Flower Show

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It was a big change of display for us at the RHS Cardiff Flower Show, we had a go at educational (not like being at school we hope) with of few fun elements. Lots of useful information for all our customers and the public at the show about Heuchera, Heucherella & Tiarella.

When we arrived we had a lot of setting up to do!

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We based our display around the most asked questions and to help demonstrate all the answers we have given over the years

We hope this means everyone will be able to grow great Heuchera Heucherella & Tiarella they are incredibly easy really. 

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We had canvases made for the show and were really pleased at how they came out.

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Floating leaves showing the correct position they enjoy by using the colour of the foliage to help you

Floating heucherella foliage

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Magnifying glasses show just how pretty the flowers are.

Two Tiarella showing what leaves need removing in spring to keep plants looking lovely and tidy

Two Tiarella showing what leaves need removing in spring to keep plants looking lovely and tidy.

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Propagation

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We were judged in a different category than normal…we put together the educational display to achieve a Lindley medal which was bit scary and unknown territory!! We were very proud and surprised to find out that we had gotten a Gold medal in the Floral Marquee awards. Not bad for our first go! 

Thanks to everyone who came out, stopped by our display, and said hi at the event.