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Garden Plants
IBC Launches ‘Summer Decoration with Bulb Flowers’
The Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Centre, in collaboration with Italy-based lifestyle designer Donna Brown has produced “Summer Decoration with Bulb Flowers” — a free consumer booklet, which features an unusual table decorating twist.
Canadian-born Donna is a top name in the interiors industry in Italy, whose passion for flower design is based on the creative study of the connection between flowers and food.
She has developed an innovative way of decorating with some of nature’s most interesting ‘design objects’.
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Rococo Chocolates And The Gluttonous Gardener
Rococo Chocolates and The Gluttonous Gardener (Chantal and Ned, have been plotting and come up with some wonderful ideas for sumptuous gifts.
Rococo Chocolates is loved by people who appreciate good quality, real chocolate and who want to enjoy life’s little luxuries, while The Gluttonous Gardener has become well known for their imaginative range of gifts that combine high quality edibles and growables, all beautifully hand packed in wooden crates and delivered next day nationwide.
A Selection:
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Novel Mothers Day Gift Ideas From Sendathought
Make Mum feel extra special this Mother’s Day; rather than reaching for the usual flowers or chocolates, take a look at Sendathought’s attractive new website, which has elegant, as well as tongue-in-cheek gift ideas that are beautifully wrapped and sent on your behalf.
They won’t break the bank but they’ll mean the world to Mum.
Favourite gifts include:
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Get Ready For Spring With The Chelsea Gardener
As spring approaches gardening specialist The Chelsea Gardener offers advice on the must have tools, seeds and accessories for the season; bring your garden out of hibernation and prepare for the warmer weather (hopefully) with some product suggestions.
Tools
Whether splitting and moving your herbaceous plants, or pruning your summer flowering shrubs, you’ll need an array of hard working tools, all available from The Chelsea Gardener to get the job done:
Choose durable carbon steel and leather grip Secateurs (from £19.99) for taming plants, and Forks, trowels and Bulb Planters (from £14.00) for weeding and planting bulbs; Shears will come in handy for tidying up hedgerows (from £21.95).
Bring the lawn back to life by removing old grass and leaves with a rake (from £34.99).
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Show You Care – Give Interflora’s Breast Cancer Bouquet
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.
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Gooseberries & Gondolas Will Inspire You At Tatton
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.
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B&Q’s Outdoor Living Collection For 2007
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.
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Plants, Displays And Planters From Green Interiors
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.
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Crocus Garden Wins at Chelsea Flower Show
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.
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