Festivals

Lakeside Celebrations

by Lynn Riches | | | |
Posted on 6th August 2021

Photo credits Ania Shrimpton and the ValleyFest team ‘Valley Fest’ kicked off the party for the summer being one of the first festivals to take place for over a year and everyone was certainly ready to let their hair down and enjoy the celebrations. It takes place every year in the valley looking over the […]

RHS Hampton Court Flower Festival 2021 – The Show must go on!

by Lynn Riches | | | | | |
Posted on 7th July 2021

The summer is here, gardens, events and festivals are open with planting and ideas to inspire us, so lets get out there explore and enjoy them. Photo Credit – RHS / Neil Hepworth RHS Hampton Court Flower Festival took place at the beginning of July and those of you that made the journey to visit […]

Save our Bugs and Insects

by Lynn Riches | | |
Posted on 5th March 2021

I was horrified to read recently that our bug life is in a “catastrophic decline” with “several species being endangered” and “the start of a mass extinction on the horizon”. This is devastating news for the biodiversity of our gardens and wildlife globally. We, garden designers, landscapers and all gardeners, amateur or otherwise, with a […]

The Festival With A View – ValleyFest 2019

by Lynn Riches | |
Posted on 9th August 2019

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 […]

The Festival Of Flowers – RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2019

by Lynn Riches | | | |
Posted on 8th July 2019

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 […]

Celebrating our Wildlife and Communities

by Lynn Riches | | | |
Posted on 5th June 2019

RHS Chatsworth Flower Show has again been a huge success this year with some great gardens on offer to enjoy and take inspiration from, my favourite being the shows feature garden which was packed full of ideas for enticing more wildlife into gardens – from the beautiful planting and natural bordering hedges providing space for […]

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