The Vase Lady

30/05/2026

We are really looking forward to seeing you all again on Saturday 6th June. If there is something on the website (www.pipbensley.com/wintage-vases) you would like us to bring with us do please add a comment here. We have lots of exciting new vases, glass flower frogs and kenzans for you so see you there!

24/05/2026

Its Deco time with three early 20th Century items. A blue Delcroft Ware jug/mug, an orange and green Beswick Trentham Ware drip glazed bowl and an orange and greem Beswick double handled jug.
See more at www.pipbensley.com/vintage-vases

24/05/2026

We love creating our choice seasonal bouquets. These allow us to choose the best flowers available on the day to give you the very best value for money. Scent plays a big part in all our bouquets so stocks are always a favourite, garden style roses too and locally grown peonies, mint, geums, wallflowers, tulips, briza and astrantia. They come in a glass vase with full care instructions on our beautiful exclusive message cards and special flower food to increase their life by up to 50%. We wrap in recycled paper wrapping and offer a 10% discount on your next bouquet if you recycle the vase back to us. Add to that every single mile we drive is carbon offset and we use no plastics in our packaging and it makes us your best choice for special flowers. If you are still not sure then check out our all 5 star reviews on Google Maps! https://www.pipbensley.com/flowers/seasonalbouquet

23/05/2026

Three new Dartmouth mantle vases today. The first is the elegant Mandolin, then the classic eau de nil London and finally the ribbed mantle in the small size.
See details at www.pipbensley.com/vintage-vases

22/05/2026

So very sad to hear that Matt Biggs has lost his fight with cancer. We were warned at Chelsea on Monday that he was in his final days. Matt was such a lovely warm caring man. When I first started with Hilliers he was already an established TV name but unlike other TV gardeners he always had time to talk and genuinely encourage newbies like me. He has remained exactly the same over the 36 years I have known him - a real gentleman and popular with everyone. All the RHS judges at Malvern sent him a special video message from the show sending him our love. I am so glad the RHS made sure he was presented with his Victoria Medal of Honour - the highest horticultural accolade.

Picture ©Rachel Warne

19/05/2026

Huge congratulations to Jade Loftus, florist and North Midlands Area of NAFAS member, for winning the coveted Florist of the Year award at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Her exhibit was stunning and the award so well deserved!!!

19/05/2026

There were some fabulous exhibits in the Floristry Competition this year at RHS Chelsea. Here are all the exhibit briefs, the medals awarded and the exhibits themselves.

19/05/2026

What an amazing Chelsea Flower Show! Fantastic exhibits which were an honour to judge. A great panel to chair - thank you Kim Parish, Michael Bowyer, Frances Fenwick and Libby Russell and our Secretary extraordinaire Dawn Edwards. And best of all one of the exhibits we judged, Leon Kluge Garden Design with “The Flora of South Africa” and put forward for Best in Show only went and won it! Shed him being surprised with his award here.

15/05/2026

15/05/2026

Had a great day yesterday with the lovely members of Wi******er Flower Club doing meadow designs.