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Floral Bars from Rococo Chocolates

Floral Chocolate Bars from Rococo Chocolates

You can give flowers and chocolates in the same package with these new Floral Chocolate Bars from Rococo Chocolates.

There’s a choice of three flowers – Jasmine, Rose or Violet – or you could even give all three for a “mixed bouquet”!

The chocolate bars themselves are made with your chosen flower fragrance in plain chocolate (with 65% cocoa solids).

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A Perfect Cup of Coffee from Mono

The Cafino Coffee Pot from Mono

The innovative Cafino Coffee Maker from Mono enables you to make a really enjoyable cup of coffee.

Mono even let you into the secret of making perfect coffee:

“Simply place finely ground coffee beans into the double stainless steel mesh sieve, insert into the heat resistant borosilicate glass cylinder, pour boiled water to capacity, and let the aroma unfold.”

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RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park

Tatton Park Flower Show

There’ll be more than 600 exhibitors at the RHS Tatton Park Flower Show in July – the show will cover more than 29 acres!

Gardeners have grown to love the Tatton Park flower show for its relaxed ambience, some of its features being original back-to-back small gardens and exciting show gardens that indulge a wide cross-section of tastes, budgets and planting preferences.

The back-to-back small gardens displays are a unique part of the Tatton Park Show. There will be more than 25 such gardens, allowing designers to demonstrate their creativity and planting skills on a realistic sized garden.

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Tilano Fresco Decorative Tile Kits

Tilano Fresco Decorative Tile Kits from 2techvisuals

Here’s a great idea to spice up the decor of any room – display your photographs as fresco tiles using a do it yourself Tilano Fresco kit. They’re a great alternative to a picture frame.

“People are taking their favourite photos, adding words and then transforming them into these remarkable fresco tiles.” says Randy Orr, Tilemaster at Tilano Decorative Products – makers of Tilano Fresco kits. “We’ve seen some amazing things done with family photos, art prints, and even famous quotes. The possibilities are endless.”

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Hampton Court Palace Flower Show

Lavender at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show

The next Royal Horticultural Society flower show is at Hampton Court Palace in London from the 4th to the 9th July 2006.

This is the world’s largest annual flower show – it is a “must see” for anyone who is interested in gardening.

There are two new categories at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show this year – Conceptual Gardens where you can see the work of new garden designers, and Inspiring Spaces where garden centres will demonstrate creative ways to enliven awkward spaces in the garden.

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Crocus Garden Wins at Chelsea Flower Show

Tom Stuart Smith Garden by Crocus at The 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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Princess and the Pea by Royal Copenhagen

The Princess and the Pea from Royal Copenhagen

If you visit Thomas Goode, the famous china, glass and silverware shop in the heart of Mayfair, between the 30th May and 1st July, you will be able to see this magnificent figurine of the Princess and the Pea.

It will be the centrepiece of a beautiful table set with the famous Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica porcelain service.

The figurine is from Royal Copenhagen and is made to a design created in 1911 by Gerhard Henning – it is in fact a bonbonniere. The Princess and the Pea is, of course, taken from the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

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BBC Gardener’s World Live

Monty Don at the BBC Gardeners World Live Show

The BBC Gardener’s World Live Show on the 14th-18th June promises to be an exciting event for anyone interested in gardening.

The organisers are calling it “the gardening show created for gardeners by gardeners”.

In association with The Royal Horticultural Society, the show will feature stunning plants (many new varieties), show gardens by Britain’s top designers, and lots of top TV celebrity entertainment.

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Confetti Vases from Rosendahl

Confetti Glass Vases from Rosendahl

These new glass vases from Rosendahl show the elegant talent of their designer Lin Utzon.

The vases (and matching votives) are hand-blown, and the different patches of colour that adorn the vases are placed on individually, making each one a unique glass sculpture in its own right.

Lin has chosen 5 colours and colour combinations for the Confetti vases, including lime green, blue, white and orange.

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New Beer Glasses from Menu

Weiss Beer Glasses from Menu

For years, wine enthusiasts have known that different types of wine should be served in different glasses.

Now, with increasing interest in real ales, beer drinkers are discovering the same thing. So it’s good news that Menu have introduced a range of new beer glasses, each one a distinctive shape, designed to accentuate the characteristics of a particular kind of beer, and allow the drinker to enjoy the brewers art at its best.

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