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Traditional greenhouse at Holehird Gardens Cumbria

Spring is just around the corner and gardens are on the cusp of greatness but before 2018 gets into full swing, let’s take a moment to reflect on last year. Our sales in 2017 were 20% more than in the previous year, the highest in Griffin Glasshouses’ history, and one of the key factors behind […]

Posted by Linda in Customers, National Garden Scheme

NGS Rosemary greenhouse in Essex featured in NGS Norfolk blog

Linda Lane, Managing Director of Griffin Glasshouses, attended the special birthday celebration on Wednesday 18th October 2019. Also attending the event at the Garden History Museum was Julia Stafford Allen, the NGS County Organiser for Norfolk. Julia authors a wonderful garden blog featuring 90 gardens which includes Doug & Sue Copeland’s Essex garden. Their garden […]

Posted by Linda in Customers, Design, News

Butterfly house in Portsmouth Hampshire

There has been a real sense of excitement around Cumberland House Natural History Museum in Portsmouth.  Visitors now flock to experience flying gems in the new Butterfly House. The Goal “The old Butterfly House was beyond repair and no longer fit for purpose,” explains Chris Richards at Portsmouth Council. “The decision was taken to demolish […]

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Large Victorian glasshouse in Cheshire

When Griffin Glasshouses first started talking to a Cheshire estate owner about replacing the historic greenhouses in a walled garden, little did they realise that almost fifteen years later the 123sq. m finished job would be one of the larger and technically challenging domestic structures they have built and erected in their 50-year history. The greenhouse […]

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Traditional three quarter span greenhouse at Holehird Gardens.

The Lakeland Horticultural Society in Windermere welcomes more than 25,000 visitors every year to enjoy the society’s Holehird 12-acre garden, all exceptionally maintained by volunteers. The charitable society’s main objectives are to promote the science, practice and art of horticulture however, until now, it has not had any plants within its greenhouses. With generous project […]

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New greenhouse at Orchard Nursery, East Grinstead, West Sussex

Situated in a Victorian walled kitchen garden on the outskirts of East Grinstead, West Sussex, is family run business Orchard Nursery Plant Centre. When company directors, Lynda and Jonathan Bradford finally decided to replace their very dilapidated Victorian greenhouse that was originally on the site, they had a very specific brief and knew just the […]

Posted by Linda in Customers, National Garden Scheme, News

Beautiful Victorian greenhouse in Oxford

Keen gardeners Zoe and Peter Walker from Shiplake near Henley on Thames are enjoying their new Griffin Glasshouses greenhouse which they are using to grow summer flowering plants from seed. Their beautiful 3m by 4.9m Rosemary greenhouse with porch is from Griffin Glasshouses National Garden Scheme range which means the National Garden Scheme receives 5% […]

Posted by Linda in Customers, National Garden Scheme, News

Griffin Glasshouses, the family owned creators and manufacturers of bespoke greenhouses for connoisseur garden owners, has launched a collection of five designs in support of the National Garden Scheme. All greenhouses in the National Garden Scheme collection are named after garden herbs and Griffin donates 5% of the proceeds to the charity. Each year the […]