Chelsea Flower Show & a Scottish Escape
Plus my new office, salmon sperm for skin, pigmentation be gone
Happy Friday!
This (short) week has gone by in a blur - organising several events for next week and month, home and abroad; moving into my new office at The Old Coal Yard (cue flat pack furniture assembly made easier with delicious coffee), layering up again in coats with the turn in the weather, and popping outside for a mini walk any time I can to breathe amongst the bluebells and cow parsley. This time of year is so delicious, a feast for the senses, especially in the countryside but in London there is also a collective spring in the steps…
In amongst the madness of bank holiday fun and event overwhelm, I managed to book in some me time via the most incredible facial recommended by the LucieApp founder Lucy herself. Not only was Lee incredible but he was very forthright with his opinions on my beauty cupboard and what was to stay and go (spoiler: most of it has to go!). He has recommended the most incredible arsenal to fight to pigmentation so stay tuned (plus the details below).
Bank holidays at home are lovely but they make me want to book somewhere for the next one! And Banchory Farm in Scotland looks utterly dreamy and they are kindly offering us all a discount to stay anytime (bank holiday or not!) so more on that below too.
In this week’s dispatch - Behind the story of The Lady Garden at Chelsea Flower Show, ideas for prettying up our new little (shed) office, Stella McCartney x H&M (run!), a Scottish idyll to stay for your next long weekend (with a discount), salmon sperm for skin (yes really), pigmentation be gone & more…
I hope you have a happy weekend.
Love, Willow x
The Lady Garden at Chelsea Flower Show
Award-winning garden designer Darren Hawkes has this year designed his RHS Chelsea Flower Show Garden for the Lady Garden Foundation, it’s aim to shatter the silence surrounding gynaecological cancer.
The Lady Garden Foundation ‘Silent No More’ Garden will be located on the prestigious Main Avenue of Chelsea Flower Show and aims to use this powerful platform to propel these often-overlooked cancers into the national spotlight.
With its striking, immersive design - featuring forms and planting that subtly echo the female body - the garden invites curiosity and conversation about gynaecological cancers. These are cancers that, tragically, claim the lives of 21 women every day in the UK.
Jenny Halpern Prince MBE, Co-Founder & CEO of the Lady Garden Foundation, said, “We are incredibly proud, as a small, but fearless charity, to continue our campaign work on shining a spotlight on the vital conversations men and women need to have in the UK to overcome the devastating mortality rates of gynaecological cancers. We want our RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden to challenge traditional taboos on a national scale so every RHS Chelsea visitor who sees our garden will stop in their tracks and understand how our design can provide the language, knowledge and confidence to be comfortable engaging in vital conversations about their ‘private parts’ - whether with a friend, family or medical professional –to change the dial on real women’s cancer survival rates across the UK.
The other co-founders and I launched the charity because we all had a personal story of gynaecological cancer that had been devastating to our families. Our road to Chelsea is resonant of that too. One of our patient advocates, Emily Plane, who often spoke at our events, sadly lost her life to ovarian cancer at the age of 28 in November 2023. Before she died, she had become a powerful voice, friend and advocate of the Lady Garden Foundation. She messaged me from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in May 2023 urging us to have a garden at the Show, convinced of the power a Lady Garden Foundation garden would have to ignite life-saving conversations about gynaecological cancers. She was the spark that started the journey to Chelsea 2026.”
Follow the Lady Garden Foundation ‘Silent No More’ Garden journey to RHS Chelsea at @ladygardenfoundation.
Escape to Scotland
Banchory Farm is a 700 acre farm in the heart of Fife, Scotland and in the rewilded rolling fields you will find six impeccably restored and beautifully decorated holiday cottages. After 15 years of living in Asia and working in the corporate world, owners Jane and Jono took over the reins of the farm from Jane’s grandparents who first bought it almost a century ago. It is a change of pace but one that keeps them busier than ever. “We are determined to ensure that the farm can continue on for generations to come so we are always working or dreaming up new projects” Jane tells us. The couple have been painstakingly renovating the farm cottages while working on regeneration projects for the farm itself and during this time the farm stays have garnered much attention from press and visitors alike. The Grieves Farmhouse is one of six cottages now available to rent on the farm and it’s caught our eye. Banchory have kindly given Seedling readers a discount code to use for booking any cottages at Banchory any time this year (until 15 December).
Visit www.banchoryfarm.co.uk | Follow @banchory_farm
