Expect delivery delays from website orders as we are away exhibiting Plant Belles at a show. Deliveries will resume as normal w/c Monday 21st July...
Plant Belles are heading to a very special event at the Charleston Trust Firle house and gardens, East Susex, 17th - 20th July. An impressive list of speakers will be gathering for 4 days of splendor, to share their gardening wisdom at this the 36th Festival of the Garden. We will be exhibiting our full range of garden delights, but order in advance to avoid disappointment.
"For four days this summer, we invite you to explore the garden as a radical, resilient and restorative space. Gardeners and growers, artists and activists, designers and thinkers all come together to reimagine how we live with the land, through talks, performances, walks and workshops". Read the full Festival Programme here.
The pond at Charleston. Photo: Will Hearle
In 1916, the painter Vanessa Bell and her friend and lover Duncan Grant moved to Charleston along with Duncan’s partner David Garnett. Almost as soon as they moved in, Bell and Grant began to paint every surface in the farmhouse, transforming it into a living, breathing work of art. Over the following decades, Charleston became a gathering point for some of the 20th century’s most radical artists, writers and thinkers known collectively as the Bloomsbury group. It is where they lived out their progressive social and artistic ideals.
Today, it continues to be a place that brings people together to engage with art and ideas.