Adding character to the Plantaria
We love the use of an old piece of furniture to lift the plant display at the National Trusts Mottisfont Abbey Gardens…
We love the use of an old piece of furniture to lift the plant display at the National Trusts Mottisfont Abbey Gardens…
We love the addition of a planted BBQ to the plantaria at Alton Garden Centre…
Now what would be the most appropriate plant to grown on a BBQ?
Salvia splendens “Red Sizzler” maybe…
Have you seen the interesting and thought provoking article by Alan Titchmarsh in The Daily Telegraph about Why don’t people respect gardeners? (To view the article just click on the image) I could not agree more with Alan’s argument here. In my horticultural career I have travelled and worked with researchers at various botanical gardens,…
The Garden Centre Group have today announced that they will be rebranding all of their centres as Wyevale Garden Centres. In a post on Facebook the company said… “To all of our wonderful followers, we have an exciting announcement!“Over the coming months we uproot as The Garden Centre Group and replant ourselves as Wyevale Garden…
We are often told that we need to “tell it to sell it” and no plant can have a story as powerful as this. When the unthinkable happened and the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on the 6th August 1945, more than 100,000 people died. The city of Hiroshima was reduced to radioactive rubble and…