Best4plants @ Gardeners World Live 2008

Gold and 'Best in Show' @ Gardeners World Live 2008

Toby Buckland’s Ethical Garden supported by www.best4plants.co.uk & www.EcoSci.co.uk has won an RHS Gold Medal and the coveted ‘Best in Show’ award at BBC Gardeners World Live 2008.

Now in its 16th year, BBC Gardeners’ World Live 2008 promises to be bigger and better than ever, with a tantalising mix of show gardens, floral displays, practical demonstrations, entertainment and shopping opportunities in spades.

Toby has presented and guest-presented for many garden series like Real Wrecks for BBC1, BBC Gardener's World Live and Home Front In The Garden for BBC for BBC2 and RHS Garden Challenge and Weed It & Reap for UKTV Style.

Click here for pictures of Toby Bucklands Ethical Garden

About the garden:

Everything in the ethical garden has a former life. The walling stone is from a Devon recycle centre, salvaged from a demolished building and wall. Originally the limestone was a byproduct of the local China clay quarries, where it lies in a seam over the mined clay.

At the heart of the garden is a hand-crafted greenhouse made from reclaimed Douglas fir and pitch pine, along with window-frames from salvage. Sunk into the slope, it's intended as a generator of year-round produce with internal raised beds that are designed to trap heat in winter and retain moisture in summer while providing protection in our increasing unpredictable climate.

Coblands new website goes Live! www.best4plants.co.uk

On 01 June 2008, Coblands nurseries – who there highly commended at the 2008 Grower of the Year Awards, revealed their striking new website, www.best4plants.co.uk.

The aim of the new look website is to launch Coblands directly into the online retail market. The recent press release by the centre of Economics and Business predicted that by 2020, 40% of all shopping would be done via the Internet.

Best4Plants offers a wide range of nursery quality shrubs, herbaceous, grasses and ferns, the majority of which have been grown and nurtured on-site by their expert staff.

Best4Plants offers the customer a whole host of exciting features, such as the mystery plant finder; this enables customers to upload a picture or description of a desired plant. Best4Plants will then endeavor to identify, source and deliver the plant direct to the customer’s door.

www.best4plants.co.uk allows the customer to sign up to an email newsletter, which is bursting full of great tips, hits and bargains.

From the amateur gardener to the professional, Best4Plants offers the latest fashions from the most sought after garden designers.

It doesn’t stop there; with a focus on after-care the customer can be confident that www.best4plants.co.uk will be on hand throughout their horticultural journey.

This website along with their retail garden centre at Reading, now brings this wealth of knowledge and expertise to the amateur gardener.