Winter gardens can be dull but they needn’t be! Felicity will show how they can be brightened with flower, foliage, bark colour and scent.

Initially Felicity worked as a freelance florist and then, after training at the world renowned Constance Spry School of Floristry in London, she worked in the Hillier Floristry business in Winchester. This is where she met her husband Alan and together they bought Cleeve Nursery in 1983.  This retail business was in a very dilapidated state and over the next 35 years they built the business up to become the go-to place for plants in the Bristol area! Indeed because of the success of the business it became well known throughout the UK.

Alan and Felicity were frequent guest experts on Radio West and BBC Radio Bristol. However, a 6 year series of Garden Calendar filmed and presented by us for HTV from our private garden at Cleeve put both the village and Cleeve Nursery on the map. This highly successful series ended only when HTV was sold to another larger TV company and when they expanded back into nursery production with the acquisition of a small holding also in Cleeve.

You can find out more about both Felicity and Alan through their website at https://down-to-earth.co.uk

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