Craig House Cacti

Our medal record goes from strength to strength, we now have 32 RHS gold awards from 36 shows. Counting the other shows we display at we now have 65 consecutive gold awards.

Our Chelsea display was received well and we were rewarded with our 5th Gold medal award in five appearances. Our reputation gets harder to live up to.

We had early television coverage at Chelsea this year. The BBC came on Sunday afternoon to film the stand, which resulted in televising the plants on Monday evening. Good publicity for the plants and us with regard to sales. Our blister packs sold particularly well and we will be repeating this for 2014 with more interesting varieties for our visitors to purchase. Our television coverage was not restricted to one showing because Tom Hart-Dyke did an interesting article on Euphorbias which was shown on the red button on the Tuesday.

Our custom made outfits were received well and visitors were taking photos of us as well as the plants. We were awarded trophies at Harrogate Spring, Ayr and Dundee this year with Best in Show at Dundee. Our shows this year are listed below, but we are not going to Ayr as the facilities and sales do not warrant the long journey.

Show Dates 2014
11th - 13th April RHS Cardiff Spring Flower Show
24th - 27th April Harrogate Spring Flower Show
8th - 11th May RHS Malvern Spring Festival
19th - 24th May RHS Chelsea Flower Show
30th May - 1st June Gardening Scotland in Edinburgh
12th - 15th June RHS Flower Show at Birmingham
20th - 22nd June Blenheim Palace Flower Show
8th - 13th July RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
23rd - 27th July RHS Tatton Park Flower Show
8th - 9th August Shrewsbury Flower Show
14th - 17th August Southport Flower Show
5th - 7th September Dundee Flower and Food Festival
12th - 14th September Harrogate Autumn Flower Show
27th - 28th September RHS Malvern Autumn Show

We would like to thank everyone who visited us last year and we hope you will visit again this year. We will be bringing you well grown specimens from small to large. We always give printed information on growing the plants when you purchase from us and will support you in order to achieve continuity in growth to bring on flowering each year.