Get Gorgeous Girlies Growing!

Want to start growing your own produce but haven’t a clue where to start? The The Girl’s Guide To Growing Your Own is the perfect introduction to gardening for the modern busy woman!

This book is a fun, light hearted read for the for the novice or total beginner girlie gardener full of fabulous illustrations and useful hints and tips to cheat your way to a great growing garden! Making the book totally relevant to the modern day there are even relevant recipes- including how to make your own Mojitos. The Girl’s Guide To Growing Your Own is written by Alex Mitchell who has written in her gardening column for The Sunday Telegraph for three years. Snap it up now for anyone who is new to gardening and maybe needs a push in the right direction! Plus if they don’t want to get their nails dirty it’s not a problem- team with the Floreo 370 Garden Gloves to ensure that manicure keeps in perfect condition.

What’s in Your Sandwich? (Stuff it with Some Seedbed Salad!)

On Wednesday 28th October, we watched the “What’s in My Sandwich?” BBC documentary hosted by Jimmy Doherty, unravelling the secrets behind the mass production of supermarket sandwiches!

Whilst we were slightly worried that only 60% of processed cheese is actually cheese we were really impressed by the technology that goes into producing a bag of salad! Seeing the complex process that goes into making a ready-made salad, really made us appreciate the food we take for granted and it’s this process that ensures the 1.5million salad bags going to supermarkets each week are bug free!

And whilst we all know how easy it is to pop to the supermarket to pick up a salad, with our Seedbed Roll it’s easy to grow your own English Summer Salad, producing up to the equivalent of 50 supermarket bags of lettuce! The Seedbed Roll is an all-in-one grow mat, seed and polytunnel developed for commercial growers and now available for the home garden. Contains Lettuce, Red Batavia, Green Batavia, Tango Lettuce and Cos lettuce. Plus no pests, no chemicals, no weeding and it is quick to grow!

With some home grown fresh salad, Mature Cheddar, pickle and a warm loaf you can make your very own tasty (and cheap) cheese ploughman’s lunch. We are certainly going to be ditching our Supermarket sandwiches from now on for a much fresher flavour!

Congratulations Kew Gardens- Bang on Target with the Pink Banana!

This week Kew Gardens hit their target of collecting and preserving 24,200 species of seeds from 10% of the World’s plant species. Kew Garden met this target 14months ahead of schedule and well within their set budget! The last seeds to be collected were that of the endangered pink banana (Musa itinerans) and they will now join the other seeds collected after 17 years of hard work! Garden Divas would like to say huge congratulations to Kew Gardens for this fantastic achievement in global conservation. We wish them the very best of luck in meet their 2020 target of collating 25% of world plant species! The seed bank is not based at Kew Gardens due to a fear of flooding but if you fancy a day out to the Royal Botanical Gardens please visit the website.

At Garden Divas we may not have anything as exotic as pink bananas (by the way did you know they are frequently eaten by Asian elephants) but we do have a few seeds you can grow yourselves! Choose from one of three American Modern Seed Kits- Fragrant Flower, Garden Market and Culinary Herb. Or if you’re after the perfect English Salad, take advantage of our new Seedbed Roll, an all in one grow mat, seed and polytunnel developed in England for commercial growers and now available in the kitchen garden. Alternatively you can also plant any seeds of your choice in our brilliant new Sticklebag- a lightweight decorative planter just awaiting your plants!

Garden Divas Mini Cooper!

As you know at Garden Divas we love to garden in style...and now we are driving in style!!! We have had our cute Mini Cooper made even more beautiful with the Garden Divas logo and flowers! What do you think?


Now we truely do have an original car! If you see us out and about please give us a toot and a wave Soon we will be upgrading The Horse Diva Mini One to look just as stylish.

Fashion Hits the Garden Path!

This morning we're feeling really excited at Garden Divas as fashion has now officially moved from the runway on to the Garden Path! We have just received out stock of new Wild and Wolf Products featuring prints from Celia Birtwell! The "Pretty Woman" print on the Pretty Useful Tools range from Celia Birtwell brings fashion to the gardening world. Famed for her gorgeous hand drawn prints, inky florals in cream and Aztec prints, Celia Birtwell is one of the most influential textile designers in England. For further information about Celia Click here. Celia has even designed a collection for high street favourite Topshop. Here are a few snaps of the recent arrivals at Garden Divas - let us know what you think of the new print???

Take a taste of Microleaves

Well today (1st September) officially marks the end of summer but at least the sun is still shining here today (although I have already noticed the evenings getting darker earlier :-( ). However there is plenty more work for me to do at work and in the home and garden. In fact, with Christmas looming there’s even more multitasking ahead. Facing pressures from every angle, it's difficult to dedicate the time to keep healthy and grow your own produce. However at Garden Divas we have just taken on a fabulour new product to try and make life a little easier, meaning you can grow your own super foods with very little effort!

These Microleaves are tiny tonics packed full of nutrients and flavour, really healthy, helping to make you feel great. They are a new super food to be eaten like cress, using only the first most tender leaves and stems. The great news is these sets come with everything you need including fool proof seed mats in containers perfect for the kitchen window ledge! There is a choice of two selections Green- Celery, Mizuna and Tatsoi or Red- Amaranth, Red Basil and Broccoli! Such a simple way of growing your own leaves, keeping you healthy and great to be part of the growing new trend of super foods!! Always keen to keep on trend we are trying them out on the windowsill of the GD office... hope it's going to look like this in a few more weeks :-)

Garden Divas Enters Awards!

Hi Garden Divas,

www.gardendivas.co.uk has been nominated in The Good Web Guide Website of the Year Awards. This is brilliant news but we need your help to try and get a little further! This will only take two minutes (if that) of your time but we would be most grateful if you could leave feedback about us via the following awards link http://www.thegoodwebguide.co.uk/awardfeedback!

Thank you so much and we'll keep you all updated on our progress!!