Finalist for 2019 B&LLA Licensing Awards and Winner of the Cultural Enterprise Award 2020. This sumptuous bouquet represents quintessential London. The luxurious use of the classic English red Roses and red Calla Lillies set against the 'fountains' of white Calla Lilies create an elegant contrast. Dramatised with tall majestic steel grass just like to Nelson's Column. These luxury flowers are inspired by the masterpieces housed at The National Gallery. Each bouquet is beautifully arranged by our floral designers exclusively for The National Gallery. This bouquet is available for UK next day delivery. Detail from hand tinted 1950's postcard of Trafalgar Square © The National Gallery, London.
Finalist for 2019 B&LLA Licensing Awards and Winner of the Cultural Enterprise Award 2020. Virgin of the Rocks is one of Da Vinci's greatest works and it dates back to 1483. Both the style and the choice of oils are typical of Renaissance works of art. It's these elements that inspired this superb addition to our National Gallery collection. Included in the bouquet are superb Vanda Orchids, magnificent Memory Lane Roses, Calla Lillies, Eryngium, Ruscus, Pistacia enhanced with gold wire. The use of this variety of orchid is used to represent the rocky setting highlighted in the painting, the callas are used to signify the unusual use of lighting and flora. The various colours and textures perfectly represent key elements of this painting, namely the angles, hazed sky with pastel shades and golden orbits to represent the finer details shown in the beautiful face of the Virgin. This masterpiece is housed at the National Gallery in London. Send these luxury flowers inspired by a famous work of art and you can be sure that they will impress any lucky recipient. This bouquet is available for UK next day delivery. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 - 1519 The Virgin with the Infant Saint John the Baptist adoring the Christ Child accompanied by an Angel ("The Virgin of the Rocks") about 1491/2-9 and 1506-8 Oil on poplar, thinned and cradled 189.5 x 120 cm Bought, 1880 © The National Gallery, London
A flower that is bang on trend at the moment with its striking ombre blooms - light coral-red fades to apricot-yellow towards the base, making this a real head turner in Dahlia colour. An award-winning Dahlia and fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come. Robust, compact plants are ideal for flower borders and pots and are fabulous as cut flowers - pick a bunch of these pastel beauties to bring into your home for amazing colour. Supplied as 6 x plug plants ready for potting up and growing on, plants will grow to a height of around 50cm.
Hardy Lupins are a staple perennial for cottage gardens and are becoming increasingly popular for cut flower displays too. With their tall, stately spires of bloom, lupins are a real summer garden classic and certainly have the wow factor. Smothered in pea-like flowers, right to the top of their stems, their palmate, sage green foliage creates the perfect backdrop for the eye-catching blooms making a stunning statement in your garden. Traditional lupins need a lot of room and can get tall and leggy, but not the Gallery series! Far more compact and robust, they reach just 60cm tall, yet will still fill your garden with incredible flower power. Perfect for growing in pots and great for creating focal features on patios and decking, you don't need a garden to get the most out of these amazing perennials. Flowering throughout June and July, the perfect blooms of Lupin 'Gallery' open in succession from the bottom of the spire upwards, prolonging the flowering season, and are a magnet to butterflies, bees and other beneficial pollinating insects making your summer garden a haven for wildlife. Easy to grow and totally winter hardy, Manhattan Lights is also easy to maintain and makes the perfect cottage garden plant - it's perennial so comes back year after year with an ever-increasing amount of blooms and works spectacularly when planted alongside old fashioned English roses and hardy geraniums. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots and ready to plant out, these lupins are easy to grow and care for and will grow to around 60cm x 60cm, flowering in June - July.
The Dahlia ?Gallery Pablo? is a stunning decorative variety with coral and yellow toned blooms.