Think pink when choosing a gift this Breast Cancer Awareness Month, with Interflora’s special Breast Cancer Care bouquet.

To mark the Month in October, Interflora will donate 10% from every sale of its Rose and Lily Hand-tied Bouquet to Breast Cancer Care - the UK’s leading provider of breast cancer information and support.

The stunning pink bouquet pictured here, combines elegant Oriental Lilies and large-headed Roses with choice foliage; the result is an impressive floral display that is both fragrant and feminine - and guaranteed to make anyone’s day.

And, as well as providing the perfect gift for that special someone, you will be helping to support Breast Cancer Care.

Interflora is proud to be working with Breast Cancer Care for the fourth year running, to increase awareness and raise vital funds for people affected by breast cancer this October.

Ordering the Rose & Lily Hand-tied bouquet, priced at £34.99 could not be easier. Simply order:

1 - By visiting http://www.interflora.co.uk

2 – Or Tel: freephone (0500) 434343

3 - At your local Interflora florist shop.

If fun, friendly and relaxed is how you like it, then visit the RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park (18th – 22nd July), which has plenty of treats in store for garden lovers.

The Show gardens will endeavour to inspire you with a plethora of creative and fantastical designs:

Tatton Park’s own flowerbed in conjunction with Cheshire County Council, will be using a gondola as its centrepiece to pay homage to Venice and the estate’s Italian gardens.

This year Tatton is leading the renaissance of the most characteristic of English summer fruits, the gooseberry; the nine gooseberry societies in the UK, will be displaying their champion fruits and heritage varieties in the National Plant Societies Marquee.

Flower power is in vogue this year, as Fiona Hogg will bring a collection of plants ideal for use in floral art in ‘The Flower Arranger’s Garden’, where the featured flowers will be arranged according to the principles of form, texture and the colour wheel.

‘Flower Power’ from Finchale Training College will create a colour surge, using renewable energy to establish a lush and vibrant garden using a solar panel to power the pumps and a lunar pavement providing a feeling of abstract art.

Not forgetting the valuable advice that can be gleaned from the RHS Gardening Advice Desk.

The RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park takes place between 18th and 22nd July (18th July is reserved for RHS members).

To book tickets visit:

Web: http://www.rhs.org.uk/flowershows 

Tel:  (0870) 842 2229

B&Q’s inspirational outdoor living range includes everything you need to add your personal creative touches to your garden’s décor this summer.

Lighting can make all the difference to a garden, using a variety of decorative effects to create the right mood:

Add some sparkle with the Neo Sense Solar LED String. £29.98.
Light up an alfresco dinner party with Bucket Candles (£4.98 each), or mark the path through your garden with Bamboo Oil Torches, also £4.98 each.

Heating is an important consideration for outdoor living in the UK:

The featured Kensington Cast Iron Chiminea (£114.98), or the black steel New York Fire Bowl (£69.98) will keep you cosy on long summer evenings.

Plants are a brilliant way to personalise your garden; try a more exotic look this summer with bold architectural plants in vivid colours from B&Q:
Fabulous Bamboos Ferns and Palms, or statuesque Topiary is on offer and the range is divided into four styles – Tropical, Oriental, Topiary and Mediterranean to make your choice easier.

This is just a selection of B&Q’s outdoor range, which includes garden furniture, barbecues and garden buildings plus outdoor toys and games.

Visit the website for more inspiration:

Web: http://www.diy.com
Tel:   For your nearest B&Q Store (0845) 850 0175

Green Interiors was established in 1988 as an interior landscaping company specialising in providing live and artificial plants for corporate customers.

In response to an increasing demand from private clients for top quality plants, plant displays, and planters, not readily available elsewhere, they set up www.brightgreen.co.uk in 2001.

This is an interesting and stimulating website, where you can choose from a selection of live houseplants, wonderful silk arrangements, preserved roses, contemporary stems, grasses and planters for interior and exterior use.

The elegant Polystone Partner planters featured here, are composed of clay and resin, fashioned in moulds then finished by hand, creating the look, feel and durability of stone minus the weight.

Polystone is perfectly suitable for outdoor use and comes in a choice of stone or black.

Prices and sizes are as follows:
370×900mm     £155.99
500×1200mm   £278.01
670×1600mm   £497.99

Green Interiors is a family run company, who pride themselves on service and approachability. They also offer a planting and installation service.

Web: www.brightgreen.co.uk
Tel:  (01327) 262525

Crocus, the gardening website which specialises in plant sales, has just won “Best in Show” with their Tom Stuart Smith / Daily Telegraph garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.

They provided all the plants for the garden created by top designer Tom Stuart Smith.

Enclosed on two sides by alternating sections of hornbeam hedge and rusty steel wall, Tom’s garden was a design of contrasts. The garden featured a narrow rill that was partially hidden by naturalistic planting while two staggered groups of Viburnum rhytidophyllum framed views into the garden and provided height.

The central flower planting was based on a European steppe flora and was made up of relatively drought-tolerant species, including bearded iris, grasses, verbascums, salvias, stachys and knautia.

You can buy plants featured in the garden from Crocus, but they only have limited stocks (especially the irises), so you’ll have to hurry if you want to use Tom’s ideas in your own garden.

web: http://www.crocus.co.uk
tel: (0870) 787 1413