Hartley Magazine

All the latest news, hints, tips and advice from our experts

Our 5 Star Award-Winning RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025

  The 2025 stand at RHS Chelsea Flower Show showcased the craftsmanship of Hartley Botanic’s Greenhouses, handmade in England to nurture flowers and plants. It highlighted the importance of these Glasshouses in promoting a sustainable lifestyle by reducing the need for imported flowers and food, allowing anyone to cultivate their own. ‘Your Space, Your Story’ […]

Alstroemeria, The Peruvian Lily

Of the many greenhouse and conservatory plants few tick all boxes. That eternal quest for all-the-year-round interest in foliage, compact, neat with long lasting flowers good for cutting, lots of colour, scented in whole or part, possibly also edible, and of course, easy. Few indeed, however the Peruvian Lily does, moreover in myriad varieties only […]

What’s so great about stinging nettles

For some strange reason we have been programmed to loathe stinging nettles, but these plants play a vital role in nature, says Jean Vernon. If your earliest memories of nettles is falling into the nettle patch or being chased around the playground by nettle wielding classmates, you won’t have a good relationship with these incredible […]