With more than 5000 products in the Fermob range when you count all the possible colours, we’re unable to hold everything in stock and consequently Fermob lead times can be challenging. And whilst we do keep some stock, choosing the right colours from the 24 available in the right sizes, mean we usually order furniture as customers request it.
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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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A small space in your garden, be it a balcony, a terrace or a courtyard can still include garden furniture for relaxing and dining. Here, we highlight some of the Fermob garden furniture that is best suited for cosy, small spaces.
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Iris Hantverk has been around in one form or another for over 100 years. Today it still employs visually impaired craftspeople to make brushes. We popped in for a quick tour of the workshop.
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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.
Continue reading Pale pink poppy – Papaver dubium ssp. lecoqii var. albiflorum(I meant to send this out earlier in the month, been a bit busy…)
Golly gumdrops (and gumboots) how can we be in the penultimate month of the year already? The long Indian Summer certainly lulled me into a drowse and suddenly its totally dark at home time and I can see the breath I breathe as I stomp homeward. Homeward, to the prospect of a cosy fire and something bubbling on the stove with goats cheese dumplings…
November; a month to embrace the dark but enjoy the daylight hours whilst you can by wrapping up warm and taking those first frosty walks of winter amid landscapes full of nature, from the tiniest mushrooms peeking through the damp grass to the majestic sight and sound of stag deer braying his dominance. It’s also a month to be in the garden clearing and tidying away the remnants of summer and planting a springtime crescendo of bulbs.
Mid-October, it’s properly autumn now! Those pumpkins you harvested a few weeks ago are perfectly suited to a spicy, warming soup or perhaps you’re plucking up the courage to get carving for Halloween? The leaves are falling rapidly, a wondrous carpet of yellows, coppers, browns and reds lie beneath your wellied feet. Wood smoke pervades the air and there is an urge in our house to make sticky parkin (uncle Dan’s recipe) to wrap in greaseproof parcels and take on Sunday stomps through the woods and Downs.
It’s certainly time to embrace the dark evenings with family, friends or in glorious solitude; stargazing, huddling in the warming flames of a bonfire, the glow of a traditional hurricane lamp, the flicker of candlelight on the dining table and the sparkle of tiny twinkle fairy lights on the mantle (fairy lights are not just for Christmas)
October is a month of exciting adventures. It’s all about being; and being outside! After the heat haze of summer, our newly discovered autumnal senses are sharpened. October is also a month of ‘firsts’!! The first of the leaves falling from their trees, the first tang of frost in the misty air, the first whiff of wood smoke, the first bundles of fire wood entering the house and possibly the first hot chocolate sipped outside from an enamel mug whilst wrapped in a blanket whilst watching dusk turn into starlight.
We love autumn, can’t you tell? Back from travels and back at the homestead, hunkering down, preparing for a cosy winter and obviously Christmas (but we’re not onto that yet). We’ve travelled this summer; to Stockholm, to Paris & to our own beloved London Town in search of beautiful and useful goods that are also produced with love, care and ethics.
Everyone knows what the Robin looks like; red breast, usually found on the front of Christmas cards, etc. But get up close to one, as I hope you will be able to with the lessons learnt here and you’ll discover how limited those preconceived ideas are. In fact, you’ll discover that really they’re orange breasted, not red.
Continue reading How to train a RobinThe rhubarb was forcing the slate off the top of the old chimney pot…