Lay of the Land
Christmas Shop 2014
Our 2014 Christmas shop is now open offering lots of decorations, lights, artificial tree’s and all sorts of giftware for your favourite gardener. Our beautiful Christmas trees are on order...
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I haven’t personally counted them, but over 400,000 species of plant exist in the world, which are known by somewhere around 1.5 million scientific names.
At Lay of the Land we regularly get asked for plants which are native to the UK. Well apparently only about 47 are considered so, but hundreds more ‘garden’ plants have now also established themselves in the wild. A few of them, Japanese Knotweed being the most infamous example, are considered overly invasive, causing harm to our eco systems.
How to make flower pot people
Flowerpot Festival will start at the end of the month and run until the 31st of August, for those of you who would like to take part here’s some help towards making your own Flower Pot People. Flower pot people can be made out of any flower pots you happen to have lying around, plastic, terracotta or even more exotic types, the only stipulation that they have drainage holes (or you can drill them). If you need flower pots we have a collection of free recycled pots at the garden centre for those looking to make flower pot people along side our normal stock of all manner of plant pots of all shapes and sizes. To connect the pots together you’ll need some wire, rope, string or cable ties.
Spring is in the air!
Isn’t it brilliant when you feel the first warm rays of sunshine occasionally, even in February! Even better when the sun is falling on a little clump of snowdrops reflecting...
Garden Retail Awards 2013
In November last year we attended the Garden Retail Awards down in London, we were finalists in the Best Business Development Category. We didn’t win but we were highly commended,...
Happy New Year
After all the hype, preparation, hard work and celebrating there it is – gone again. Bye, bye Christmas! We had a good one, and hope that all our customers, friends...
Frosty Competition Winner
With sincere apologies for not announcing Christmas Eve, as intended, I have pleasure in announcing the winner of our children’s “Whatever happened to Frosty” competition. We thoroughly enjoyed reading the entries,...
Has the trail gone cold?
Well I guess whilst it was so very cold we all kinda hoped that Frosty was still out there somewhere, laying up and just waiting to catch the next sledge home. ...
Is Frosty overseas already?
Check out the comment from “a concerned reader on “Possible Frosty sightings”. I really can’t believe our Frosty would cause that sort of fuss on an airplane, so I really...
Christmas Trees now on sale!
Even without Frosty to help us, our Christmas Trees are now available. From 3ft to 12 ft, all first class Nordmann non drop, roughly £6 per foot, all individually displayed...
Possible Frosty Sightings!
So far Frosty hasn’t been in touch, but we remain hopeful. I’ve had a couple of possible sightings reported to me, but no confirmation as of yet. “The Beast Tamer”,...
Has Frosty run away?
So, just for amusement we bought one of those snowman boards with a space to write on how many days to go to Christmas and put it in the planter at the...