Finalist for 2019 B&LLA Licensing Awards and Winner of Cultural Enterprise Award 2020.. Available for UK next day delivery. 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. The iconic painting depicts the coronation of the Virgin Mary in which the symbolic Dove places the crown upon her head.v We have used the luxurious Grand Prix rose to represent the rich red tapestry in the background accompanied by bright Hypericum berries and Cinnamon scrolls for a seasonal touch. The deep colours are contrasted with scented white Lilies, also a symbol of peace and purity adding a touch of lightness to this special gift. These beautiful blooms are complimented with golden Ruscus leaves, gilded Birch and finished with a halo of golden thread. Master of Cappenberg (Jan Baegert?), active about 1500–about 1525 The Coronation of the Virgin (detail), about 1520 © The National Gallery, London
This colourful mixture of carrot varieties is sure to liven up your dinner plate! Carrot 'Sweet Imperator Mix' includes five different carrot F1 hybrids to provide you with a varied, reliable and flavoursome harvest. The long, uniform, tapered roots which can reach up to 25cm (10?), have a crisp texture and sweet flavour, perfect for snacking, adding to salads, roasting and adding to cooked dishes.
If you?re new to growing cauliflowers or are simply looking for a reliable, resilient variety which can withstand whatever a British summer throws at it, give Cauliflower 'Boris' F1 Hybrid a try! Come rain or shine, this undemanding and unfussy variety grows well in any type of soil and copes well with all weathers, leaving you with a perfect crop even when given very little attention. Producing large, blemish-free curds with superb texture and flavour, harvest a whole head at a time and enjoy in cooked recipes, roasted or raw in salads.
Cerinthe major 'Purpurascens' is an aristocratic plant, bringing understated elegance to the front of sunny borders. Blue-green leaves spiral up each stem of this bushy little annual.
Add some heat to your summer with a fiery crop of Chilli Pepper 'Fresno Mix' F1, perfect for eating fresh, adding as a garnish or including in cooked dishes. Three spicy varieties make up this vibrant mix, producing high yields of red, orange and yellow fruits.
This versatile and easy to grow kitchen herb produces a reliable and perennial crop of flat, grass-like leaves which have a wonderful, mild garlic flavour. Chinese chives, also known as garlic chives, can be used in the same way as any other chive, perfect for adding flavour to salads, sandwiches and various cooked dishes.
Bring some old-fashioned flavour to your vegetable plot with this heritage Climbing Bean. Marbled pods develop early in the season, ready for picking from July onwards.
Finalist for 2019 B&LLA Licensing Awards and Winner of the Cultural Enterprise Award 2020. Our beautiful Constable bouquet is arranged to represent the Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds in the grounds of his home at Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire in 1812. When Constable visited Coleorton he made a pencil drawing first then ten years later he began to turn the pencil drawing into an oil painting which is now housed at the National Gallery London. Our florists have used twisted willow to represent the stag’s horns along with Naomi Roses to represent the warm woodland setting that surrounds the Cenotaph. For the autumnal dusted surface, we have added limonium and Green Bell Thlaspi to illustrate how Constable applied many hues including what is thought to be a thousand greens in the painting. Finally, the use of Thistle and gold Ruscus highlights the subtle light that illuminates this rich painting.
Long-cropping ?cut and come again? Coriander 'Confetti' provides you with a full season of fresh leaves to harvest and use in salads, curried, stews and sauces or simply to enjoy as a garnish. The soft, ferny leaves have a fresh, aromatic flavour and can be harvested regularly throughout the summer to encourage more stems to grow.
As its name suggests, Cornflower 'Dwarf Blue Midget' is a compact, neat variety, blooming earlier and lower down the stems than other varieties. The first dark-blue flowers appear when plants are just 15cm (6?) tall, and continue to develop as the plant grows to its final height of around 30cm (12?).
Producing pale yellow cylindrical fruits with a green tip, these zucchinis certainly stand out from the crowd! Courgette 'Zephyr' F1 Hybrid is attractive and productive, forming vigorous, bushy plants which produce high yields of distinctive courgettes with a firm texture and delicious nutty flavour. Enjoy a long cropping season, harvest them when young to experience them at their best!
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