Florist & Flower Grower
I have escaped back home to our flower plot to sort out wedding flowers for several brides. It’s hectic. But nothing like as crazy busy as Day 4 at Hampton Court. Here are a couple more pics of the Russian Garden by Heather Appleton (et al). Keep up the good work guys, and see you […]
Hampton Court, Day 4 Read More »
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]
Planting the Hampton Court Flower Show Garden Read More »
Blog entries tend to be inversely related to how busy we are! So, apologies for lack of news. It’s not because nothing is happening. Far from it! Hampton Court is just around the corner and, while Bek runs around titivating, watering, feeding and soaping-up our plants (to kill off the aphids) we are busy with
No news from the plot… we're hard at work! Read More »
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
It's not every day you appear in Country Life! Read More »
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
That's more like it! Read More »
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