There’s a fantastic opportunity coming up to learn to draw plants in the beautiful surroundings of the Axe Estuary Wetlands near Seaton, with a Botanical Art Workshop on Friday 16 May, 10am – 4pm.
Accomplished botanical and wildlife artist Linda Hampson will be teaching drawing techniques using coloured pencils that can be applied to any plants. Linda was a prize winner at the Society of Botanical Artists Annual Exhibition in 2013, and examples of her exceptionally beautiful drawings can be seen on the South West Society of Botanical Artists website www.swsba.org.uk
Visitors to Otter Nurseries can enjoy refreshments in a bright new kitchen garden, thanks to a makeover and inspired planting.
The popular garden centre worked hard to get the area ready in time for customers to be able to enjoy the recent clement weather.
Managing Director, Jacqui Taylor said: “The outdoor dining area was looking rather lacklustre and we decided it needed an update to provide a more pleasant area for our customers to relax and enjoy their food, particularly as we have been enjoying a bout of warm sunshine and blue skies.”
It may be too late to get tickets for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show but there is still plenty visitors can do to get into the Chelsea mood at RHS Garden Rosemoor. The garden is looking wonderful with cheerful daffodils, woodlanders such as Trilliums, alliums, and fresh new growth unfurling in the Rock Gully. The many fruit trees are putting on exquisite blossom displays, too. If you were thinking about seeing the show gardens at Chelsea take a trip to the model gardens at Rosemoor instead. They share a similar focus on garden design and future similarly intricate planting. Irises are also...
The UK’s largest garden centre retailer, B&Q, expects to sell over 150,000 Poinsettias this Christmas as the most popular houseplant makes its annual Christmas debut.
Indigenous to Mexico and Central America, this plant is now a Christmas staple for many UK homeowners. Over 100 million Poinsettias are sold every year throughout Europe, but what many people are not aware of is exactly how the plant gets its famous crimson colour.
The secret... shading the plants in darkness for 50 days. Growers begin in May, six months before they go on sale, to grow the plants and to...
