Next year the Garden Museum will be running a brilliant day out visiting traditional and contemporary topiary gardens in Kent and Sussex. Full details can be found here, for what promises to be a fantastic time seeing gardens! First stop on the trip will be to meet us and Charlotte Molesworth, in her garden, where will be demonstrating some topiary techniques and offering some of the best tools available for sale. Charlotte’s garden is an extraordinary place for wildlife, so this is not to be missed! Lunch will then be taken at the Walled Garden, where you will be able …

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Well would you look at that! The mainstream media are picking up on the idea that organic bulbs are bee friendly bulbs, and we should all be planting them – hurrah! Read what Alys Fowler has to say in the Guardian. We have been banging on about this for a few years already, and selling these toxin free bulbs all that time. Alys Fowler does not mention us in her list of suppliers, but you can see what we have in stock here – Ecobulbs. Or find a (sadly) short list of other suppliers in the UK here – Where …

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We were told a wonderful piece of advice this week, from a man who grows a lot of euphorbia. Euphorbia oozes a milky sap when the stems are cut or broken, and this can cause a lot of irritation to your skin if it drips onto you. So this lovely gentleman told us to do the following: Immediately after you cut a euphorbia, make another cut underneath. This will stop the flow of sap and prevent any harm or potential harm coming to your skin. How good is this advice? Perfect, we would say, for growers and cut flower arrangers.