Festivals

As I sat, last weekend, in our beautiful Somerset countryside, in a gently sloping lakeside meadow, looking out over chew valley lake which provided a sparkling backdrop, edged by the rolling Mendip Hills, to the ever growing ‘ValleyFest’, with the varied sounds of music playing on several stages and aromas of great food and drink […]

RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Festival has a new name and a new look with a new vibe and there really couldn’t be a better venue, set in beautiful parkland with an historic castle as its back drop, for the worlds greatest and largest flower festival celebrating first and foremost our fabulous world of horticulture […]

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019 is here again and it is a huge success with design, planting and landscaping ideas to take home to inspire us.   This year’s show is stunning and has a very strong theme of woodland and water, natural green planting with hints of white, yellow and blue or purple, it […]

The sun baked grounds of Hampton Court Palace were turned into a fabulous extravaganza of colour and vibrancy as the RHS took over the grounds, became the ring master, and put on The Greatest Flower Show in the world.   It was possibly the driest and hottest build to a show that has been known […]

The greatest and most prestigious flower show on the planet has arrived and brought with it possibly the hottest temperatures we have ever seen during a build at the show! The heat soared in the centre of London on this very small and congested show ground, we have all wilted and burnt during the build, […]

The Royal Horticultural Society is putting on the worlds most prestigious ‘Chelsea Flower Show’ again with gates set to open on Tuesday 23 May. The green field site of the Royal Hospital Ground turns into a whirlwind of excitement and an extravaganza of colour and scent. It fills me with joy and trepidation all at […]