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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The fascinating heliquarium, or butterfly house, in the lobby of England’s newest luxury hotel prepares the visitor for the unexpected. London Syon Park, a Waldorf Astoria hotel set in the two hundred acre Syon House estate which has been home to the Duke of Northumberland for over 400 years, is no ordinary five star experience: […]
Owning a glasshouse is likely to feature at the top of any gardener’s wish list. Whatever the structure, from simple aluminium frame to the most luxuriously crafted designs, most of us would love the opportunity to garden under glass. It promises a world of new and exciting horticultural opportunties, where you can try out new […]
Glasshouse garden’ inspires beginners and experts alike Compact versions of the grand estate glasshouses to be found at Kew, Hampton Court Palace and various RHS gardens are being unveiled by Hartley Botanic at the 2011 Chelsea Flower Show (May 23-28) in a bid to appeal to amateur gardeners of differing skill levels. Their courtyard ‘glasshouse […]
I got my greenhouse two and a half years ago to shelter my burgeoning collection of exotic stuff, ensetes, aeoniums, daturas, which up to that point and through several mild winters had survived just by being pushed up by the house with a bit of fleece thrown over them. Heady days. I thought it would […]
These diminutive little plants are some of the prettiest in the herb garden, although being tiny you may have to get close up and personal to appreciate them fully. As with sage, the leaves contain volatile oils which are much more active when the weather is warm and on a still evening the smell can […]
Tarragon is a half-hardy perennial (tender, but grows from year to year) that is very useful in a wide range of dishes and is a great partner for tomatoes, chicken and eggs. An attractive plant it is ideal for a warm sheltered spot in well drained soil, but being half hardy is best grown in […]
There are several popular sages, all with strongly scented leaves and pretty heads of small flowers and all are used as both decorative plants for the flower border and for culinary use. Planted in a warm spot the volatile oils from the foliage will scent the evening air, or use to line a path where […]
