RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018

The biggest show of the season is now finished, and we are already onto Chatsworth show! We took home our 10th gold medal at our 10th RHS Chelsea Flower show. We couldn’t be more thrilled!

We also were interviewed for BBC 2’s series on the show, which was really interesting to watch, hearing from the different specialist nurseries (like ourselves!) and the creators behind the show gardens. You can still find the episodes on catch up if you’re interested here. Our segment is in episode 14, 12.45 in.

We will be operating our Click and Collect at most of the shows we attend this year, so if you want to save a bit on postage and ensure we bring the plants you want, please choose this option on checkout.

If you weren’t able to make it and want to see a sample of what was at Chelsea Flower Show, we compiled some of our photos from the week. We hope you enjoy them!

We have our open days at the end of this month, the 23rd and 24th of June from 10am-4pm each day. We put all our medals out on display, have home-made cakes and refreshments, and let you tour around our nursery and choose any plants you’d like to purchase to take home. We love open days as it’s a great chance to get to chat with you lovely lot. Hope to see you there!

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RHS Malvern Spring Show 2018

RHS Malvern show didn’t disappoint this year, it was a beautiful, well thought out show with a HUGE flower marquee for us all! We were happy our educational display took home a gold medal, as always it’s a lot of fun discussing differences between our plants and how best to look after them.

A big thank you to each and every one of you who took home a plant as well, we are really pleased with how the plants are growing this year with their beautiful bright leaves ready to go into your garden.

This year potential new exhibitors came around to have a chat and see what show life is all about, 2 lovely groups of nurserymen and growers!

We always like doing these recaps of the shows and share photos as we know so many people would love to go but may not be close enough to attend. It seems the displays get more spectacular every year. Next up is our biggest show of the season, RHS Chelsea!

 

Harrogate Spring Show 2018

We’re back from Harrogate now and we started off with a very eventful morning at the start seeing that our plants had gotten blown over the night before with the strong winds! This meant a quick trip home to grab some more plants before the display got finished. What a start to the season! We got everything up for judging though and all our sales plants set up on time so we still did it.

This year we went for an educational display based on questions we get from our lovely customers, and we’re happy to announce we got a premier gold award for it! So thank you so much for your questions, we love helping with your gardens. Thanks for everyone who stopped by to say hi or buy some plants from us over the weekend.

Malvern show is next up May 10th-May 13th. If you’d like to per-order plants you can use our ‘click and collect’ service to save on postage and to make sure we bring the plants you want to take home.

2018 Show Season Kicks off with Harrogate Spring Show

We always wonder how we get so quickly back to the show season every year, but here we are! This week we kick off the season with Harrogate Spring Flower show from the 26th-29th of April. This year we will be doing a different display, one that’s based on customer questions that we get asked from you!

Shortly after Harrogate, we have Malvern Spring Festival the 10th-13th of May. If you’re going and want to make sure you get the plants you want, you can use our ‘click and collect’ service to save a bit on postage. We will be taking plenty of plants to have a browse of if you’re not sure which to add to your garden yet.

Auricula ‘Lucy Locket’ goes really well with Heucheras and is quite hardy, helping to add a splash of sunshine to your garden if you’re looking for something a little different.

We have all our fingers crossed the weather stays nice like it has been for everyone attending the upcoming shows. If you want a list of all the shows we will be at this year, you can check our 2018 calendar events page.

We love seeing our lovely customers, so do pop by and say hi if you attend any shows!

RHS Malvern Autumn Show 2017

We’ve finished with our last show of the season, RHS Malvern Autumn show, and now it’s all planning what to do for next years shows!

As you can see from our first couple of photos, we always have quite a lot to put into our display, we grow our plants bigger than normal sometimes, and make sure to bring plenty of moss and dirt to make everything look really clean. We also try to add interesting elements like our wooden pieces shown.

Happily we took home a gold, completing another golden year!

Tiarella Raspberry Sunday

Heuchera champagne 

Heuchera Forever Purple 

Just because the shows are over doesn’t mean we are done! There’s still lots of work to do around the nursery, potting, packing orders and figuring out which plant combinations to use for next years shows. This weekend we have our open days as well! We look forward to seeing anyone who is coming out.