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Getting Ready at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

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Things are all full steam ahead and by the time we are posting this now, our display is all set up! Here are some photos of the process. We are putting together a Linley (educational display), similar to this one we did at Cardiff only on a larger scale. Normally we go for a floral display so it’s always fun to put something different together.

Along with everyone putting their displays together inside the marquees, the outdoor show gardens are making some big progress! It’s always really neat to see them putting them together and then going back to see them once they are finished.

We are posting lots of photos daily of Chelsea Flower Show on our twitter account, if you want to follow along you can find us at https://twitter.com/plantagogo.

Malvern Spring Show 2017 Photos and Getting Ready for RHS Chelsea

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It was another great show weekend at Malvern Spring show last weekend. We were happy our display got a Gold Medal, after all the hard work it’s nice to see others appreciate our plants and displays as well.

We got a chance to have a wander around some of the stunning show gardens over the weekend and although rain was forecasted, we got some lovely warm sunny weather. Below are some photos of our display and some of the others that we particularly liked.

Our sales plants ready to go to their new homes. Thanks so much to all who supported us and bought plants this weekend, we hope they make great additions to your gardens!

Vicky even posed for a photo with English Gardening expert Carol Klein in front of our display. Carol was presenting a BBC Gardener’s world live on the weekend, of which we were on for a fleeting minute.

Now that we have finished Malvern, we are getting ready for the big one of the year, RHS Chelsea Flower show in London. Here we will be introducing this lovely new Heuchera, ‘Sweet Caroline’ TM (Fox series) which you can see above as a first look! It has a stunning mix of dark and pale green foliage with sweet pink flowers.

We will also be doing a little bit of a different display than we normally do, based on all the questions we get asked by you our customers about how to grow your heucheras, hecherellas and tiarellas and hopefully make the growing and caring for process a bit easier. These sorts of displays are judged in a different way and a bit tougher to get a gold, so we are working very hard and hope to get it right.

As we are now fully into the busy show season, please be patient with us with mail orders, they may take a little bit longer than usual to get to you as we are away quite often. We use every day we are in the nursery to pack up your precious plants and get them out to you though, so don’t let this put you off ordering!

News for May

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It’s come up on us quickly, but it’s already time for our next open days this weekend! Join us May 6th and 7th from 10-4 each day to pick out gifts or new plants for your garden, have a nosy around our small little garden, and as always enjoy some delicious home made cakes!

Many of you will probably know we pick a different charity to donate cake proceeds to every open day, and the charity cake proceeds go to this weekend is the Stroke Association as part of ‘Make May Purple’ You can find out more information on their website.

As some of you may know, Vicky’s Dad has passed away, so please be patient with us while we get all of our orders out and get back to people’s emails and messages. Many of you may have met him at shows and open days, so we just wanted to let you know of his passing. Dad was a highly respected horticultural figure, being in the business for over 60 years! Penstemon pentastic, was a variety Fred bred and and dad which we will soon have available for sale.

Dad amongst some of the begonias that he and Fred (my brother) bred during his 60 years career in horticulture.

Our next show is RHS Malvern Spring Festival from the 11th to the 14th May. If you are going to the show and want to save a bit on postage, we will be operating our ‘click and collect’ for this show, so make sure you get your orders in with plenty of time!

After that it’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show from the 23rd – 27th of May. We will be in the great pavilion and let you know our table number closer to the time. Some of you may have heard but we will be launching a new variety of Heuchera at the show! You’ll be able to order it after we officially release it at Chelsea.

As you can see, we have a lot to get ready for in May, it will fly by and all be over before we know it I’m sure. Here’s to an exciting month!

Harrogate Spring Flower Show

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We had a great long weekend at Harrogate spring flower show, and even brought home a premier gold award! The plants are looking really great this year so we are very proud of them. Here’s a few photos from our display if you didn’t get a chance to see it.

We will now be starting to get ready for our open days, May 6th and 7th at our nursery. There will be lots of cake to eat and plants to take home. We hope you’ll be able to make it!

RHS Cardiff Flower Show 2017

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We have finished with our first show of the season now, RHS Cardiff flower show. Last year we had our first try at an educational display, so this year we decided to do the same again. We polished up some bits and added some more information and tips and we got another gold! It was a fantastic weekend.

We loved sharing our growing tips and tricks with everyone who visited our stand, and the interest in Heucheras, Heucherellas and Tiarellas. Educational displays are really fun for us as we love talking about these wonderful plants!

Thank you to everyone who stopped by for a chat and picked up some new plants from us. Our next show is Harrogate flower show on April 20th which always promises to be a great one. If you want to order any plants from us and will be at Harrogate show, save a bit on postage and use our ‘click and collect’ option at checkout.