Jen Stuart-Smith

Day three – Hampton Court Here are a selection of photos from our third day of planting up the Russian Garden,with the team from TWIG and Heather Appleton who has designed this striking Garden.  You can also follow our progress on the Blooming Green twitter feed and  our facebook. [nggallery id=2]      

Ok, so we’re not ‘girls in pearls’, but Vanessa Berridge and the photographer Leigh Clapp have certainly made us (or our flowers, more accurately) sound like quite an appealing prospect! Thank you ladies. If you have a few minutes over the weekend for some light reading, we appear on pages 58-61 of this week’s issue

Here’s a pic of one of our Mother’s Day bouquets… We thought you needed to see the sort of thing we are going to be sending out next week. We will be using loads of lovely foliage such as ruscus, pittosporum, rosemay and pussy willow, as well as anemones, tulips, freesias, daffs. Our lovely friend

Today we had a group of students from Hadlow College come and plant a hedge for us. Our windbreak is constantly, well, getting broken (maybe that’s how it gets its name?!)… so we’ve added a second line of protection.  Our new hedge includes: birch, Spindleberry (Euonymus europaeus), Guelder rose and dogwood, so it’s not only

Recently, most of our time has been spent sorting out our new website (we hope you like it as much as we do), but there’s still masses to do outside the warmth of our office. Stage 1 of making our plot more welcoming has involved putting in a new gate and posts of local chestnut.