{"id":113859,"date":"2022-02-28T13:55:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T13:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/?p=113859"},"modified":"2022-02-28T13:55:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T13:55:17","slug":"a-busy-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/garden\/michael-perry\/a-busy-february\/","title":{"rendered":"A busy February!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey guys,<\/p>\n

Good to see you again!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had a busy month, which actually started off in Denmark, in the city of Copenhagen. We popped over for three or four days, and of course I made sure we saw lots of botany too. I can really recommend the Botanic Gardens, they are a treasure trove of unique and unusual plants. I was also feeling quite inspired by the plants on the market; they use a lot of pastels and baby blue, as you\u2019ll see from the photos.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

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Once I got home, I couldn\u2019t resist assembling a few of those colours, as you’ll see in my shelving unit that I\u2019ve now moved outdoors!<\/p>\n\"\"\n

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No sooner was I back, but I was up to Leeds to teach Steph McGovern and Anton du Beke how to build a terrarium. I have to say, they both did pretty well. Anton made a display that looked like the Seychelles with some lovely big rocks, and Steph\u2019s was like a forest floor. I hope they took them home and will be caring for them!<\/p>\n\"\"\n

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I also attended an utterly fab day at RHS Wisley, as part of the Young Horticultural Movement. I\u2019m an ambassador not a member, hehe! I made a speech about Weird and Wacky Plants, and we all got tours of the grounds, which were looking all wintery and sparkly.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a busy month on the podcast too, as we managed to land an interview with the Executive Producer of the Green Planet Series on BBC. What an honour! We got lots of behind-the-scenes gossip, and I couldn\u2019t resist asking about David Attenborough and, of course, the plants. Putting this down as a career highlight.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also had a bit of a Primrose month, creating tonnes of fun content for these rainbow beauties. Lots of amazing colours coming through which we hope to bring you at QVC. I\u2019m also testing out a few as houseplants indoors, which is brilliant. They last twice as long as cut flowers and I\u2019m totally backing this trend. In fact, I\u2019m obsessed with mixing things up, and I’ve even brought a few aconites indoors to enjoy on the table recently.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

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Lastly, I\u2019ve been doing something I haven\u2019t done since I was eighteen. Pollinating flowers\u2026 this was one of my first jobs when I joined Thompson and Morgan<\/a> and I got to try it again after all those years. It was brilliant, and you can see the video on my Instagram page.<\/a><\/p>\n\"\"\n

Busy month at QVC coming up. This week I\u2019m involved in two Today Special Value offers, so I\u2019ll need a few coffees for that! But I love it, and I love bringing you fantastic gardening products<\/a> and cool new plants.<\/p>\n

See you next month!<\/p>\n

Michael \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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