Chelsea 2014 – 6th May 2014 (Dave Root)
With just two weeks to go till Chelsea opens for business, it is understandably a busy time. However, the workload has gone off the scale! To put this into perspective, growth is running at about 4...
View ArticleKelways Plants “at Chelsea”– Finally!
Yes, 11 days to go and the nursery is buzzing with excitement. Our first lorry load of plants was delivered to Alan Titchmarsh’s garden yesterday and has been well received and tweeted! We have seen...
View ArticleTree Ferns from Kelways!
As an aside from our normal day job of the UK’s largest grower of peonies and irises, and even our involvement with supplying plants for Chelsea Flower designers and gardens, we also have one of the...
View ArticleThere and back…and there and back a week later! Dave & Robs Double-Dutch Trip
Last week, my colleague and apprentice plant hunter, Rob Parsons, and I flew to Holland. Our mission was to source some 25 large Ficus trees for an interior landscaping project that we have been...
View ArticleExciting Times Ahead?
It seems like only last week that we were at the 2014 Chelsea Flower Show, yet we are already preparing for the 2015 event. August and September are strange “waiting” months. All potential exhibitors...
View ArticleYoungHort Conference, Battersea
Yesterday, Gary, Matt, Elliott, Darren and Rob all attended the Landscape Show in London’s Battersea Park for the Young Horticulturists Conference. There were a bunch of speakers including Adam Frost...
View ArticleSpanish Road Trip for Chelsea 2015
2015 has kicked off with no less than 4 shopping trips planned before the end of February. The first was my recent trip to Spain with Kamelia Bin Zaal, the Designer for the Al Barari Garden for Chelsea...
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