Design

If you are an alpine enthusiast, you’ll be interested in reading the latest feature article on the Alpine Garden Society website.  The feature looks at the specific needs of some alpines, where the help of a glasshouse is needed in order to survive and thrive in the UK. Although alpine plants grow in wide-open spaces […]

Many people with a high garden wall ask if their site is suitable for a lean-to greenhouse design. Building a modern or Victorian greenhouse against a wall offers a range of benefits: the heat retention in the walls means that there is less glass ensuring reduced heat loss in the winter months and therefore less […]

Whilst the garden sleeps in winter, those with grand garden designs for the coming growing season can use the time to plan hard landscaping changes in their gardens. There is the opportunity to see the garden’s structure with all the leaves off the trees, shrubs and hedging, and whilst the herbaceous plants have died back. […]

Scandinavia is proving to be one of the most popular export markets for the quintessentially English looking Griffin Glasshouses. Since appointing the Stockholm-based Vansta Trädgård as its agents for the region in February 2018, sales have increased annually and, despite concerns over Brexit, they believe 2019 will be a record year. Vansta Trädgård’s CEO, Berenike […]

Patients at a spinal injury unit in Shropshire can now learn gardening skills and enjoy peace and quiet away from the busy wards thanks to a new, specially designed garden. The Griffin glasshouse is the focal point of growing at the new Horatio’s Garden at the Midland Centre for Spinal Injuries at the Robert Jones […]

Hampton Court Flower Show: Stand HC519 Visitors to the Griffin Glasshouses stand at Hampton Court’s RHS Flower Show will see an array of beautiful abstract floral paintings from an internationally recognised artist, Clare Hooper, complimenting each bespoke greenhouse displayed this year. Clare Hooper is a contemporary floral artist who achieves the transmission of vitality, speed […]

The wheelchair friendly greenhouse that forms a centre piece of a recuperation garden at the Stoke Mandeville Spinal Injury Centre has been welcomed as a key element in the new facility. Dr Olivia Chapple, the Founder and Chair of Trustees for the Horatio’s Garden Trust, told Linda Lane, Griffin’s Managing Director, that it provides a […]

When the crisp autumnal mornings have past, and the long, hot days of summer are distant memories, the winter blues can often set in. Particularly for gardeners. A greenhouse can be a great way to keep green-fingers working all year round by extending the growing season and offering protection to plants. Winter needn’t mean the […]