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Some familiar faces…
We’ve had some familiar faces pop by the garden! CoppaFeel!’s patron Dermot O Leary and queen of breakfast TV Lorraine Kelly couldn’t resist a nose around..whilst wearing the CoppaFeel! mascot!
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Garden OPEN
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show is now open to the public. That means the CoppaFeel garden is free to explore! Come and see us at plot TH69
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GOLD
CoppaFeel! Has been awarded the heighest horticultural accolade! A GOLD MEDAL!!! The judges have been studying the gardens thoroughly over the past two days and have awarded the CoppaFeel Garden Gold – A fantastic achievement which we are all so excited about. ...
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CoppaFeel Garden: COMPLETE
Today we finally finished the garden ready for the judges!! Two and a half weeks have flown past, 14hr days 7 days a week have been well worth it though as we are all really pleased with how it looks. Lets hope ...
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Day 14…
We’re on day 14 and the count down has well and truly begun! Our biggest challenge of the day was lifting our huge box balls into place! These beasts took a forklift and three men to put them all into their new ...
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Quartz wall nearly complete – Thanks to Mapei!
Thanks to the kind donation from Tower Ceramics and the suppliers of Mapei Elastorapid grout, the Quartz stone wall is nearly complete!
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The mascot…
CoppaFeel! wouldn’t be CoppaFeel! without the giant boob mascot so it seemed only right to have it hanging out on site with us today! And of course, there’s never a bad place or time to CoppaFeel! It even made a few new ...
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Day 4
Water features, hedging and four metre steel uprights for the main wall, plus even more rain. What a day!
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Build Commences!
After the months of planning the CoppaFeel Garden finally finally gets started! From 7:30am day 1, three diggers excavate the garden whilst delivery after delivery gets signed for and ready for construction. Thankfully all the excavating was completed just before the heavens ...
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What a pair!
I have just been to visit to the Crocus nursery before we start building this week and I am delighted wit the quality of the plants! The Buxus balls are looking excellent and I cant wait to see them in the garden. ...
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A new partnership!
We’ve joined up with the gardening enterprise Streetscape, who will be assisting Himalayan Landscaping Ltd to build our garden! Founded in 2011, the Streetscape team provide high-quality landscape gardening services and offer apprenticeships to young people (18-25 years) who are long-term unemployed. In ...
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Mirror, mirror on the wall…
The people at theplasticshop.co.uk are working hard on creating a very fundamental part of the garden structure. Acrylic mirrors will make up the ‘reflective’ element of the garden, highlighting the point that you are responsible for your health and you know your ...
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Surfaces
Thank you to ahs local for the kind donation of fine composted bark, the people of Rolawn for donating Medallion turf and Addagrip and Truegrip for the Resin bound gravel! The garden is really shaping up now…
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Stone Wall FOUND
After weeks of hunting, we have finally found our stone supplier for our dry stone wall. Norstone UK are very kindly sponsoring CoppaFeel with with some beautiful Quartz to build the 10m long wall. This stone will be collected and stored over ...
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The PLOT!!
Yesterday was an exciting day with the 1st preview of our plot at Hampton Court Palace. It was a beautiful day with the sun beaming on the deer park where in only 6.5 weeks time the CoppaFeel will start to take shape! ...
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Concrete
Concrete is the chosen material to build The Screens which feature towards the exit of the garden. Hugo Bugg is collaborating with Mass Concrete to create interactive concrete walls which will hopefully intrigue and inspire. Exact details will be unveiled at the ...
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50 Box Balls
Crocus, one of the countries top nurseries has jumped on board our exciting adventure and are supplying all of the CoppaFeel Garden’s plants. THANK YOU CROCUS! 50 Buxus balls and 15 meters of beautiful hornbeam hedging are on their way from belgium ...
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Contractor chosen!
We’re very excited to be building the garden with our friend Dhundi from Himalayan Landscaping. Past projects have included assisting in building two gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show with designer Cleve West in 2006 and 2008. Both gardens were awarded ...
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The Design
The CoppaFeel Garden ACCEPTED!!! Our conceptual garden has been shortlisted to the final nine to feature at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, 5-10th July 2011! The CoppaFeel Garden has been conceived to provoke thought, change attitudes, heighten awareness and captivate visitors, ...
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Designer Chosen
CoppaFeel! are delighted to confirm that the current RHS Young Designer of the Year Hugo Bugg will be designing the CoppaFeel Garden for summer 2011. Hugo founded Hugo Bugg Landscapes in 2008 after graduating with a First Class Honours Degree in Garden ...