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SUMMARY:Garden Media Guild Event at Double H Nurseries and Exbury Gardens
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DESCRIPTION:Garden Media Guild are delighted to bring a behind the scenes tour of Double H Nurseries, with a focus on their new wholesale arm (The Horti House) and their Direct-to-Consumer Brand ‘Love Orchids’. Members will be taken through the full growing process with an in depth look at their sustainable growing practices.  \n \nDouble H Nurseries is the largest grower of indoor houseplants in the UK. Growing over 1.5Million orchids per year, 800,000 green plants and 1Million flowering specialist Chrysanthemums and Kalanchoe.  Not only is almost every orchid you buy from M&S and Waitrose one of theirs BUT they transitioned during the Covid Pandemic into online and diversified their customer base.\n\nThis will be followed by a visit to Exbury Gardens for a nerine exhibition/glasshouse tour, plus afternoon tea from 3pm – 4.30pm. You will be able to join the head gardener of Exbury Gardens for a behind-the-scenes peek of its spectacular collection of nerines, known as jewel lilies as their petals ‘glitter’ in the light.\n\nSpread over 200 acres in the New Forest, Exbury boasts the national collections of Nyssa and Oxydendrum trees, and over 450 cultivars of Acer, which guarantee a display of glorious autumn colour.\n \nExbury is just over 30 mins by car from Double H Nurseries at New Milton. It is located in the New Forest near Southampton and is 20 minutes from the M27 by car.\n\n \n\n \n\nItinerary \n11:00 - Meet at Double H Nurseries\n11.15 - Introduction and coffees\n11.30 - Intimate grower tours\n13.00 - Lunch and Q&A.  \n14.00 - Finish & Orchid challenge!\n15.00 - Nerine exhibition/glasshouse tour, plus afternoon tea at Exbury Gardens\n16.30 - Visit ends\n\nPlease inform us of any dietary requirements prior to the visit.\n \nAs you are visiting in a press capacity, we ask attendees to share content gained from your visit to Double H and Exbury by means of photographs, blog, social media posts (reels etc), podcasts, articles etc.  Please tag the venues along with @gdnmediaguild to help promote them and as a thank you for the generosity of being able to visit.\n \nIf you write about your visit for newspapers or magazines, photograph it or broadcast about it via TV/radio’, let us know when your work is published, and we’ll share the news.\n\n
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LOCATION:Double H Nurseries, Gore Road, New Milton BH25 5NG
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