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Practicality Brown on Instagram

Practicality Brown are now on Instagram! We have launched our Instagram account so you can stay up-to-date with photos and images; be our friends and follow us today @practicalitybrown Don’t forget you can also connect with us on Google +, Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin

Root-balled Trees and Transplanting

Bare root trees Autumn heralds wonderful colours and falling leaves but for growers the cooler soils signify the ideal time to start transplanting trees and shrubs. Specimen trees, typically too large for containers, are systematically transplanted by skilled growers and root-balled with a compact root system, which enables trees to be re-located without stress or […]

Theo Paphitis‘s ‘Small Business Sunday’

Practicality Brown were selected as a winner of Theo Paphitis‘s ‘Small Business Sunday’ We have received a business boost from Retail Entrepreneur Theo Paphitis‘s ‘Small Business Sunday’ and were one of six weekly winners to gain a retweet by Theo to his 500,000+ Twitter followers. The weekly initiative, set up by Theo in 2010, now […]

Truly instant hedging – up to 1.8m high

First planted in 1998, Practicality Brown is the sole supplier of the award-winning Elveden Instant Hedge, which is a truly mature, dense hedging product. The Elveden Instant Hedge difference: Grown from British origin stock (seed or cutting) not just UK provenance (which can be where plants have been growing in the last six months) Allowed to […]

The Landscape Show 2016

The Landscape Show is a trade event, aimed at garden designers, architects, landscape contractors, local authority landscaping professionals, facilities managers and interior designers from all over the UK and beyond. Once again we exhibited at the event, which is in Battersea Park London, showcasing the Elveden Instant Hedge.  We were able to talk to new customers and […]

RHS Hampton Court Flower Show Results

The RHS Hampton Court Flower Show 2016 has showcased more stunning garden designs this year, made all the more challenging to create due to the unseasonal weather. Practicality Brown are proud to have contributed to the following medal-winning gardens, for which we provided Elveden Instant Hedge, Elements and hedging plants.   Gold Medals • Show Gardens: […]

Moving trees for Microsoft

Practicality Brown moved and transplanted three semi-mature Pyrus Chanticleer (Callery Pear) trees at the Microsoft Campus in Reading, West Berkshire. The trees formed part of the soft landscaping at the prestigious Reading campus, but had grown too large at their location, restricting potential building and extension plans.  Instead of simply cutting down and removing the […]

RHS Hampton Court Flower Show pre-report

Practicality Brown are proud to be supporting garden designers for Show and Summer Gardens at the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show this July by supplying top quality large hedging plants and trees. A Dog’s Life Garden designed by Paul Hervey-Brookes for The Dogs Trust As Dogs Trust celebrates its 125th anniversary, this garden marks the […]

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016

RHS Flower Shows Practicality Brown are pleased and proud to supply our Elveden Instant Hedge to gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show again this year.  Congratulations to David Austin Roses on another Gold medal! A fantastic achievement and well done to everyone involved with producing David Austin Roses stand. We are pleased to have supplied our Elveden […]