Drum roll please. Crowned at the this year's Chelsea Flower Show by RHS President Elizabeth Banks, the 2012 Plant of the Year is none other than the foxglove Digitalis Illumination Pink! This exotic, peachy-pink perennial took the title after a landslide vote from the members of the RHS plant committees. The Digitalis Illumination Pink triumphed... [Read more...]

The Great Spring Show has come and gone, but the industry is still buzzing over the 2012 Chelsea Flower Show which concluded just days ago (including all of us here at Columbine Design). An English tradition that first began in 1862, the annual Chelsea Flower Show presented by the Royal Horticulture Society has taken place each May on the same grounds... [Read more...]