Give your garden a makeover at the Country Living Magazine Spring Fair
With some of the finest garden products on offer at the Country Living Magazine Spring Fair, you can transform your back yard into a Garden of Eden in no time. Go wild and take your spring clean outdoors by giving your garden a chic, country style makeover. You’ll find these exhibitors and much more at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London from 14-18 March 2007. Dee Puddy Garden & Interiors
Former graphic designer Dee Puddy decided to bring her design career and her love of gardening together by setting up her company Dee Puddy Garden & Interiors. Specialising in a range of vintage, rustic garden and home accessories Dee has a real talent for spotting unique, eye catching accessories, which are sure to inspire you to create something special in your own garden.
Among Dee’s best items is a beautiful English oak swing which has been hand carved in West Berkshire. The chair is made from green timber as its organic quality lends itself perfectly to the great outdoors. Each swing has been commissioned by Dee as a limited edition.
Adorn your favourite tree or pergola with this rustic, decorative chandelier. Simply decorated with tendrils of holly and ivy for a festive display or with fragrant honeysuckle in the summertime, display indoors to create an area of subtle light or hang by the front door to welcome friends and family.
Garden Glass by Hayhoe Designs Ltd
With contrasting career backgrounds - Sarah Hayhoe in fine art and her brother Dominic a former technical engineer - this sibling team combined their skills to produce a range of stunning decorative glass garden ornaments. They use a diverse range of glass sculpting techniques - acid etching, sand blasting, fusing and printing. These techniques are combined with a vast array of coloured glass to create a range of beautiful products to add a touch of colour and contemporary design to any garden.
At the Fair, you will see their Glass Panel range, which includes colours to complement the tones of your garden and also their Glass Leave collection where each piece is made individually, so no two are the same. The Glass Leaves are available in a set of six mixed size leaves with individual ties or a line of fifteen mixed sizes threaded together.
Bradley’s the Tannery
From the heart of the English countryside comes a high quality range of traditionally-tanned products from this Shropshire-based independent leather tannery. All products are created by local craftsmen using age-old methods and the very finest natural materials.
For those of us who like to harvest the fruits of our garden labour, Bradley’s provide an anti-bramble gauntlet – providing ample protection for even the most ardent of fruit pickers. And for the lady that likes to look her best no matter where she is, they supply a range of beautiful leather pruning gloves, available in a kaleidoscope of colours – although the pink ones are particularly befitting of a stylish country gardener.
Tickets purchased on the door are priced at adult: £14.00, Gala Evening: £12.00, Gala & Sunday Shop: £17.00, child (5-16): £7.50, OAP: £10.50 and under 5s: free. Tickets purchased in advance are priced at adult: £10.50, Country Living subscriber adult: £9.50, Gala Evening: £10.50, Gala & Sunday Shop £14.50, child (5-16): £6.00, OAP: N/A and under 5s: free.
The Country Living Magazine Spring Fair is from 14 – 18 March 2007 at the Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, Islington, London, N1. For further information and to book tickets, visit countrylivingfair.com.
