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The Good News About British Wool
Let’s deal with the elephant in the room - drought conditions, hosepipe bans and over a handful of heatwaves. It’s been a challenge this summer if you’re a gardener, flower farmer or allotment grower. With the bad news comes the positive news. You might have heard or...
The Chilli Heatwave Challenge
Keeping plant pots and containers moist during heat waves can prove challenging . I was playing with the WOOL SHrED Garden Felt as capillary matting during the heatwaves in 2025 and so too was a chilli nursery grower Clare’s Chillis for her chilli plant growing. WOOL...
Wool is a solution
Wool. This year is proving to be interesting and challenging for so many businesses. I’m not going to go into gloomy geo-political economics, but I’m basing my ramblings on what I personally know & checked … get me verifying! The Strait of Hormuz. I hadn’t a clue...
Three Days at The Gardeners’ World Spring Fair
The Gardeners' World Spring Fair held at Beaulieu Motor Museum in the New Forest was a great experience. Three days of chatting to new, online, and returning WOOL SHrED customers. I was informed by gardeners that the garden experts giving chats over the weekend were...
Heading Back to Beaulieu – Gardeners’ Live Spring Fair
Last time I was at Beaulieu, I was in pony tails, modelling a boater hat whilst clambering over all the posh vintage cars with my brother! Why am I talking about this photo? Well, I’m heading back to Beaulieu with WOOL SHrED for the Gardeners' World Live Spring Fair...
WOOL SHrED On The Road
WOOL SHrED is on tour once again with the Plant Fairs Road Show 2026. WOOL SHrED joins the Plant Fairs Road Show for a third year and will be at four events throughout the year. You will find us at Arundel Castle on Sunday 19th April , Ramster Gardens on Sunday 24th...
New Ideas with WOOL SHrED this wet February
It’s February 2026 and it seems to have been perpetually raining since the start of the year. If you have pets and livestock I think we’re all pretty fed up with paddling in mud. It’s all a tad grey and glum. However, in between rain showers and downpours I have...
Happy New Year from WOOL SHrED
2026 is here and events and chats are booked into the diary for the coming year and 2027. I’m overwhelmed and chuffed to bits how many gardening clubs and horticultural societies are contacting me to chat to them about WOOL SHrED . Chats to groups commence in February...
WOOL SHrED 2025 Round Up
2025 will be a year I will never forget for many reasons. WOOL SHRED products were supplied to garden designers for show gardens at RHS Chelsea and RHS Hampton Court. WOOL SHrED got used on National TV twice to show case its use as hanging basket material again! Talks...
Wool Shred – 2 in 1
Last years big gardening issue was Gastropods munching plants.This years gardening issue is plant hydration. With drought conditions and hosepipe bans, gardeners were looking for ways to keep their plants watered. Let’s focus on this Summer. The WOOL SHrED Garden Felt...
Happy Wool Month!
Wool Month is an annual event where each October wool producers and businesses celebrate the use of Wool. In this blog I’m going to be highlighting some personal experience and thoughts. In May this year I was contacted about a report which was being commissioned by...
Introducing WOOL SHrED Garden Twine
September 2025 sees the launch of WOOL SHrED Garden Twine. Following a discussion with a plant nursery seeking biodegradable, soft twine that will gradually drop off plants, and a consultation with garden designer Sally Giles from SSH Scapes, I have decided to...
Dahlia Season and Wisley with WOOL SHrED
The dahlia season is upon us, and the RHS Wisley Flower Show 2025 is around the corner. It will be WOOL SHrED second year as an exhibitor at RHS Wisley. This year is different as I’ve got longer to prepare, but less space to fill at the show with products. WOOL SHrED...
Capillary Matting For Plants
There’s been lots of chat these last few weeks about capillary matting for plant pots that are suffering in the current heatwave. People look at me strangely when I mention that WOOLSHrED products are great, especially for the predicted hot summers. Well, here we are!...
WOOL SHrED at Chelsea
WOOL SHrED made appearances at the Chelsea Flower Show 2025 and on the accompanying BBC TV coverage. Jason Williams, aka The Cloud Gardener, took a tour around the silver medal Fettercairn Wilderness Retreat Balcony Garden by SSH Scapes. WOOL SHrED was used throughout...
WOOL SHrED Makes It! Where?
I was somewhat sceptical about the word manifesting, but I’m now a believer. As an innovator and small business owner, you can only dream of attaining objectives that seem impossible at the start of a journey. However, the last few years have shown me that it’s good...
WOOL SHrED Garden Felt Update
WOOL SHrED Garden Felt was so popular with gardeners last year we’ve invested in more for 2025. The Garden Felt is 100% British wool and is manufactured in the UK. Launched at RHS Wisley Flower Show in 2024, it’s proving popular this spring. (We created a back order...
Wildlife and Pesticides
For all the bird and pet lovers out there. The Guardian published An interesting article in January this year about bird nests & pesticides. Dog and cat owners are putting out their domestic pets' fur, which contains chemical flea and tick treatments, which are...
Plant Fairs Road Show 2025 with WOOL SHrED
WOOL SHrED is on tour once again with the Plant Fairs Road Show 2025! WOOL SHrED is joining the Plant Fair Road Show for a second year and for two locations only. You will find us at Hever Castle on Sunday, March 23rd, and then at Parham House and Gardens on Sunday,...
Hanging Basket Competition with WOOL SHrED
Do you recall in May last year Alan Titchmarsh and Camilla Bassett Smith (from ITV love your weekend) created hanging baskets, aka ‘elevated blossoms’ with WOOL SHrED as a basket liner? This year, this feature and idea has been adopted at the Spring Live and Summer...
WOOL SHrED 2025 – Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, all. 2025 sees more WOOL SHrED chats/presentations to groups and societies, ventures out with the Plant Fair Road Show and a focus on core WOOL SHrED products. You will also find WOOL SHrED at Horticultural events at the South of England Showground...
The Woolly Annual Review
2024 was a year of change for WOOL SHrED. There were no more weekly markets, and the focus was on horticultural, gardening, and eco-floristry events. The Flower Hub at Heathfield Show gave me the opportunity to meet sustainable florists and promote WOOLSHrED for...
WOOL SHrED Garden Felt Is Here!
WOOLSHrED Garden Felt launched at RHS Wisley Garden Flower Show 2024 and was received incredibly well by visitors to the show. The Garden Felt product came about after horticultural businesses and gardeners requested garden felt for projects for their plants,...
WOOL SHrED Heads to Wisley
WOOL SHrED heads to RHS Garden Wisley on 3rd - 8th September 2024 Call it manifestation or plain lucky, but WOOL SHrED is winging its way to Wisley for their autumn flower show! Having applied for this event for the last three years and not making the cut, I got...
The National Garden Scheme
Have you heard of the National Garden Scheme? It happens annually around the UK. Private gardens open up to the public, and like-minded gardeners can peruse plants and garden designs for a small donation, which goes towards local charities. It’s a great way to raise...
WOOL SHrED Elevated!
WOOL SHrED was literally elevated to new heights in June 2024 in two displays at Chichester Cathedral Festival of Flowers 2024. Dee Watkins of Seed2Design had four displays at Chichester Cathedral. Two of them featured WOOL SHrED. Dee and her team used WOOL SHrED to...
Love Your Weekend with WOOL SHrED
AT? Alan Titchmarsh! Who watches ITV1 Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh? If you do, you may have spotted gardener Camilla Bassett Smith and AT using WOOL SHrED to line their hanging baskets on Sunday 5th May 2024. Camilla used WOOL SHrED to line a crazy hanging...
New WOOL SHrED Labels
2024 brings newly designed labels for WOOL SHrED. The ‘old labels’ were created by me during Lockdown and lasted over 2.5 years without any changes. There were several factors why they weren’t changed, which I will look back on and would definitely advise other...
WOOL SHrED – Eco Friendly Business of The Year
WOOL SHrED has won an award! Prestige Awards South England Eco Friendly Business of the Year 2023/ 2024. I’m still to this day unaware of who nominated me for this award, but I was invited to apply by the Prestige Awards, which I did. Thinking that it was very...
WOOL SHrED – British Wool Licensee
Good news for 2024! Behind the scenes, the administrative cogs have been whirring and WOOL SHrED (350g,1kg bags and wild bird nesting wool feeder) are now licensed by British Wool. It’s always been in the pipeline, a dream of mine to achieve this for the business...
WOOL SHrED Plant Fairs Roadshow
This year WOOL SHrED is on tour! Have you heard of the Plant fairs roadshow? It’s a collective of independent specialist plant nurseries that hold plant fairs at venues across the South East. Last September I was invited to join the collective at Sussex Prairie...
Floristry with WOOL SHrED
Happy 2024 to all of you reading this blog! What’s new this year you ask. Well, there are a few things but let’s start with Floristry. There’s a new floristry section on the website and the back story is detailed below. As some of you will know WOOL SHrED was used for...
Wool Shred and UK KTN
You may recall last year me mentioning that I was involved with Innovate UK KTN steering group for wool innovation. The objective was to address the issues we have within the British wool industry and circular economy. In July this year Innovate UK KTN published a...