Perhaps the first celerity gardener, Percy Thrower inspired a generation of gardeners, including the famous Alan Titchmarsh. He was born on January 30th 1913, at Horwood House in Buckinghamshire, where his father was the head gardener. Holding his father in the greatest esteem, young Percys ambition was to become a great horticulturalist. Percy proclaimed his greatest influences [...]
Sales have doubled in the last year alone and now with the new film Gnomeo and Juliet introducing a new generation of children to the concept of the little garden friends, who knows where this sales boom will lead. Maybe they will pep from the flowerbeds of every garden, as they did in Victorian times. [...]
Charlie Dimmock is arguably the nations best known female gardener and has enjoyed a fantastic career as both a celebrity and horticulturalist. Charlotte Elouise Dimmock, was born in Southampton General Hospital on August 10th 1966. She was born an only child but developed a half sister named Jessica later in life after her father remarried. [...]
The flower show season is well and truly under way! Here are a few more looking at flower shows in June and August. These are incredibly popular so get booking NOW! BBC Gardeners world Live – Birmingham NEC Alan Titchmarsh and a host of celebrities will be on hand at this years BBC extravaganza, with [...]
Diarmuid, a forward thinking garden designer, has become famous through his work presenting television programs including Gardeners world, Gardens Through Time, and I Want A Garden. He also co-presented on the popular show Home Front with Laurence Lewellyn Bowen, which led to their collaboration on the book ‘’Home Front’’ Inside Out’, and later his own [...]
Happy New Year Flower Show Readers! After a couple of months lying dormant, we’re back and ready for the new gardening calendar! There are many ways to spend a day off, but why not make the most of the flower and garden shows this year? Here are just a few planned for 2011: The 2011 [...]
The idea of foraging for wild foods in the countryside has been an ancient practice, it is how all life began with the hunter gatherers and is again very popular especially for present day foragers searching for wild mushrooms. It appears however that there are so many people now engaged in the foraging practice that [...]
We have already mentioned here at flower-shows.org that many of the trees in the UK are suffering from diseases that could completely change our landscape for years to come, there have been moulds, moths, bugs and bleeding bark – but there is new evidence that something other than nature itself is destroying the trees. Share [...]
In light of the governments suggestion that it is to measure the UK levels of wellbeing and quality of life there is already a piece of research that suggests that growing your own vegetables leads to longer life expectancy. Share and Enjoy:
How brilliant to read about the success of the British Bee Keepers Association (BBKA) regarding the UK adopt a beehive scheme and this year’s figures that confirm 5,000 people signed up to sponsor a beehive and become as the BBKA call them ‘armchair beekeepers’. The scheme has been a tremendous success and confirms a fifty [...]
