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"We all want quiet, we all want beauty, we all need space..." Octavia Hill

"We all want quiet, we all want beauty, we all need space..." Octavia Hill

On Main Avenue at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024 was The Octavia Hill Garden by Blue Diamond with The National Trust, designed by Ann-Marie Powell with the Blue Diamond Team. Read more about it here.
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023: A year of firsts…

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023: A year of firsts…

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023 saw a number of firsts in the prestigious Flower Show’s history…Read our blog post!
'The Longstock Way' Showcase Garden at BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair

'The Longstock Way' Showcase Garden at BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair

At the BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair at Beaulieu in April we were delighted to collaborate with Shaun Beale, Nursery & Landscape Manager at Longstock Park Landscapes (part of the Waitrose & Partners Farm on the Leckford Estate), on 'The Longstock Way' Showcase Garden. Read more...
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021: What a joyous event!

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021: What a joyous event!

We have just returned from a truly wonderful (and very tiring) RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021. Postponed from May 2020, RHS Chelsea 2021 was a historic event: Held, for the first time in its 108-year history, in September. Despite the challenges this posed to designers and growers, the planting throughout the Show site was beautiful: a strong naturalistic planting theme with masses of perennials (definitely the year of the Echinacea!) and grasses.