Last Saturday I had some free time (which is unusual!) and I thought, “I know, a visit to a garden!” However the power of Facebook and a message form Steve Roach (or “Roachy” as he apparently known to certain friends!)

He was advocating a trip to the Brentwood Garden show and to a stand called “Blooming Frames”! Well it takes a lot for me to be impressed by anything horticultural, unless it is very unusual! So my afternoon was sealed to a trip to the Garden show! As I walked in the first tent there they were “Blooming Frames in” all their glory and was I impressed, hell yes!

Basically the idea is that you have plants growing in a frame that you hang up like a picture frame! No bending down to weed and a perfect display at eye level that can be changed as quickly as any pot plant.

Bedding plants, succulents, moss, the skies the limit in what you can grow in these frames!

If you want to know more you can find Blooming Frames on Facebook at /Blooming Frames or on Twitter@BloomingFrames

I interviewed them on my show last Sunday. A link on how you can hear this again will be here shortly.