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We can’t claim any credit it for it but it was great to see that Melcourt Sylvamix® grower and SylvaGrow® stockist RV Roger Ltd, from Pickering picked up two gold medals at the Harrogate Autumn Flower and Royal Horticultural Society’s Malvern show for its fruit displays. It has been a bumper year for fruit and…

We have been most fortunate to have a cracking year here at Melcourt with wider recognition and respect for our product range and greatly increased sales. As our year approaches its end it was especially gratifying to receive recognition at GLEE 2015 from the industry itself with the Best New Product Award in our category…

Melcourt’s range of professional quality composts, bark mulches, soil improvers, topsoils and play surfaces have become the first and only peat-free gardening products to receive endorsement from the Royal Horticultural Society. The RHS has a world-wide reputation for inspiring gardeners of all ages and abilities by sharing the best in gardening. They do this through…

A great idea from the staff at Sydenham’s in Salisbury: a wild flower display in a bag of Melcourt Topsoil. As Nigel Bullock our expert on Builders Merchants points out, this is proof positive that Builders Merchants can be both business-like and creative. Maybe next year there should be a Britain in Bloom category just…

The Royal Horticultural Society has come to stand for excellence around the world so we should start by saluting all the medal winners at this year’s RHS Tatton Park Flower Show – the society does not award them lightly. That being said, we can’t help but make special mention of the companies listed below: medal…

Titan arum, the world’s largest flower – and possibly its smelliest – is about to bloom at the Eden Project. Grown in Melcourt Sylvamix®,  the flower attracts insects by emitting the smell of rotting flesh. The corm weighs a staggering 35kgs and as at 26th June the flower stood at 91cms. You can follow its progress and…

An article in Horticulture Week entitled ‘Softwood felled for plant health doubles’ (Horticulture Week 29 May 2015) prompted our managing director Andy Chalmers to write to editor Kate Lowe to highlight a current and extremely serious issue affecting UK Forestry and future timber supply. Andy highlighted the fact that the current level of new woodland…

Freelance writer Michelle Chapman is based in Chippenham and runs http://vegplotting.blogspot.co.uk. She came to see is a while back and, after her visit and undertaking her own trials, wrote the following about Melcourt and SylvaGrow®. You can see more of her blog and see some pictures from her visit here “Like many gardeners I try…

The medals at RHS Chelsea Flower Show feature a number of nurseries who use Melcourt Sylvamix® Growing media. So, hearty congratulations to the following who won the medals shown • Binny Plants – SILVER GILT • Bluebell Cottage Gardens – SILVER • Claire Austin Hardy Plants Ltd – GOLD • David Austin Roses Ltd – GOLD • Hoyland Plant Centre  SILVER GILT…

At Melcourt we are proud to have played a special role in Sarah Cook’s Sir Cedric Morris Irises stand at RHS Chelsea 2015 both as sponsors and suppliers. Our professional peat-free growing medium Sylvamix® has been used to raise the irises at Howard Nurseries, one of the UK’s leading herbaceous perennial nurseries. Howards have been…

Beautiful gardens with natural, professional-quality products that are easy to use, peat-free – and highly effective: that’s the promise of the new Passionate Gardener range from Melcourt, now expanded to four products: SylvaGrow® sustainable growing medium – nominated as a Which? Gardening Best Buy in 2015 only one year from launch SylvaGrow® Ericaceous growing medium…

New packaging for our landscape and play range is being rolled out. The eye catching new designs are brighter, bolder and more crisp than before and feature large images of the product on the front so that the customer can see exactly what’s inside the package. “Feedback from users is that they are constantly pleased by the…