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High dining…

Bistro high chair in Poppy

If you want to choose a high dining set for outdoors, we’ve got some ideas for you here.

The range of furniture shown here are all taller than the normal outdoor dining ideas. They make for a modern, contemporary look – maybe a little New York loft space perhaps? Or maybe you’ve got a bar area or high counter that needs some seating.

And whilst there isn’t quite the same choice as for regular height seating, you’ll be setting your own trend with this furniture.

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Pale pink poppy – Papaver dubium ssp. lecoqii var. albiflorum

Papaver dubium ssp. lecoqii var. albiflorum at Great Dixter

Last year at Chelsea flower show I saw this pale pink poppy all over the show gardens. I’ve been searching for a while to find it and just recently I did.

Great Dixter’s plant fairs are always worth a visit; they invite a limited number of specialist nurseries in. These set up in the lower field in wonderfully quirky little plots made up of straw bales and a wriggly tin roofed shelter. It was on one of these plots that I spotted the pale pink poppy. Phoenix Perennial Plants, run by Marina, was the nursery supplying all the plants to those Chelsea show gardens.

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