RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2012 Hartley Photos
Photos of the Hartley range at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2012.
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Local Primary School Wins Greenhouse in RHS Competition
Hook Lane Primary School, in Kent, has won a greenhouse from Hartley Botanic, worth £2500 for staging the most ‘inspiring’ Get Your Growing event. They will be holding a photocall on Friday 4 May, at 9am. Part of RHS Campaign for School Gardening, Get Your Grown-Ups Growing is an initiative designed to encourage adults to […]
Hartley Botanic Teams Up With The Prince’s Foundation
Britain’s leading glasshouse designer and manufacturer, Hartley Botanic, has announced a corporate partnership with the Prince’s Foundation, the charity established by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to help transform lives through engaging, educating and empowering people. Hartley Botanic, whose craftsmen have been creating superior horticultural structures for private gardeners, large estates and institutes […]
New Horizon: The Glasshouse For The Thoroughly Modern Gardener
The clean, uncluttered lines of Hartley Botanics’ new Horizon glasshouse – unveiled on stand MA13 at the 2012 RHS Chelsea Flower Show (May 22-26) – reflect a new age of modernism in the domestic landscape, giving garden owners the option to project contemporary house styles and increasingly popular rectilinear garden designs into their outdoor structures. […]
Putting the back on your greenhouse
As someone who would fix an engine and always have a screw left over, removing the end of the greenhouse then fixing it back on again after retaining wall had been built, nearby filled me with trepidation. Hartley Botanic kindly offered to come and remove the back of the greenhouse, then, emboldened by the fact […]
Hartley Greenhouse holds back the years
Hartley greenhouse holds back the years One of our greenhouse installers had a surprise when he took a replacement pane out to a customer recently, when he found the Hartley greenhouse he was working on dated back to 1965. The customer, who is now in his 90s, was the original buyer of the Hartley 10 […]
Waitrose help kids to get growing
Hartley Botanic have teamed up with Waitrose to support the retailer’s Get Your Grown-ups Growing competition – part of the RHS Campaign for School Gardening – by making a Hartley Tradition 6 greenhouse the first prize in the contest, for the most inspiring event staged as part of the scheme. We’re thrilled to be supporting […]
New England Garden Designers Take High Tea With Hartley At The British Consulate
Over 70 of New England’s leading landscape architects and garden designers will be the guests of Dr Phil Budden, the UK’s Consul General to New England on September 27 when the British Consulate Boston, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosts a horticultural high tea featuring talks by Johnny Mobasher, managing director of Hartley Botanic and international […]
Get Your Grown Ups Growing
And Win A Hartley Tradition 6 Greenhouse For Your School. The Get Your Grown-ups Growing event forms part of the RHS’s wider Campaign for School Gardening, which encourages schools to create gardens, teach the skills of growing and in turn enable their pupils to learn outside the classroom. Each October schools are asked to hold […]
Growing chillies in a heated propagator maximises your crop
Chillies: we Brits love ‘em! Over the past decade the English palette has become used to an increasing amount of tastes and flavours from around the world. This is down to a wide range of influences including emigration, TV celebrities, cheaper air travel; allowing more and more people to fly to far away destinations and […]
Pots of money in old greenhouses
eBay vendor realises 100% profit on 32-year old Hartley 10 A Hartley Botanic greenhouse has just been sold on eBay for twice as much as it cost new, 32 years ago. The entirely original Hartley 10, measuring 3.1m x 5.2m and described as being in excellent order apart from one cracked pane of glass, attracted […]
Windsor school wins top prize for getting their ‘grown-ups growing’
St Edward’s Royal Free Ecumenical Middle School, Windsor, has been presented with a state-of-the-art Patio Glasshouse from Hartley Botanic, following its participation in the Royal Horticultural Society’s annual ‘Get your Grown-ups Growing’ event. A thousand schools across the country took part in the 2010 event, all of which were entered into a free prize draw […]