An Ab Fab Chelsea Flower Show with The Beatles and The Rolling Bones
Today was my fifth year as a Guest at Chelsea Flower Show, meaning I get to preview the Show on the Monday before it opens to the public. To say it is a treat is […]
Chelsea Flower Show
Bill Bailey – pretty as a pitcher (plant)
I met comedian, musician and actor Bill Bailey at the Chelsea Flower Show where he was thrilled to have had a pitcher plant named after him. He explains, “Borneo Exotics, who are a highly regarded […]
Chelsea Flower Show Highlights
The playwright, Alan Melville once said, “If the ‘Private’ view of the Chelsea Flower Show is privacy, Trafalgar Square on New Year’s Eve is glorious isolation”. He has a point to a degree but nonetheless […]
The Secret of a Rose-y Royal Future
With the Royal Wedding at the end of the week there has been an increase in sales of ‘royally named’ roses being purchased and planted as living souveniers of the event. The DIY chain FOCUS […]
Chris Beardshaw has Concrete Plans for Chelsea Flower Show
Award winning designer and TV gardener Chris Beardshaw admits to looking at his own garden a few weeks ago and thinking how awful it looked. “My lawn is totally destroyed by the snow and the […]
Anne-Marie Powell Talks about Gardening, Mending Broken Hearts and Chelsea Flower Show
Well known garden designer, Ann Marie Powell is looking forward to a busy year ahead. She is refreshingly upbeat as she explains, “we are still really busy designing private gardens and have a couple of […]
Green Trends
As the deputy editor of Horticulture Week and editor of Garden Retail, Matthew Appleby has his green finger on the pulse of Horticultural trends. “I think growing your own veg has peaked,” he shares. “It’s […]
The Miners Memorial
When Llangrannog based sculptor Sebastien Boyesen (left) presented his design for a Memorial to mark the 50th anniversary of the Miners who died in the Six Bells Colliery disaster to his Client, Six Bells Communities First, […]