Monday 13 May 2019

THE BELGRAVIA FLOWER SHOW 2019 Presents The Botanist Garden

THE BELGRAVIA FLOWER SHOW 2019 Presents The Botanist Garden

At Boisdale of Belgravia Monday 20 – 25 May 2019

09 May 2019

SPONSORED BY
 
THE BOTANIST ISLAY DRY GIN
 
Belgravia Flower Show 2019 is proud to announce the launch of The Botanist Garden at Boisdale of Belgravia on Monday 20th May and sponsored by The Botanist Islay Dry Gin to be officially opened by televison and media personality Georgia Toffolo.
 
Since 1913 every May London has celebrated the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea. In recent years, coinciding with the nearby Chelsea Flower Show, Belgravia in Bloom also takes place in shops, bars and restaurants around Belgravia and this year the Scottish restaurant Boisdale will be hosting its own flower spectacular expertly staged by notable florist Lucy Vail, best known for her bold use of colour and theatrical floral ceilings.
 
The Botanist Garden will be a celebration of The Botanist Islay Dry Gin and Boisdale of Belgravia’s Scottish heritage portrayed through a brand new foraged gin cocktail menu and the restaurant’s floral installation of natural foliage and florals inspired by the 22 hand foraged botanicals from the Isle of Islay, the southernmost of the Inner Hebrides islands and home of The Botanist.
 
Wild Highland foliage, fragrant florals, blooms and roses will adorn The Botanist Garden to create a botanical masterclass and fill the restaurant with fresh spring scents, whilst guests enjoy a selection of perfectly served foraged gin cocktails devised in collaboration with The Botanist throughout the months of May and June alongside the finest British produce.
 
The Botanist Garden will see excitement levels peak during the week of the Chelsea Flower Show with national press, the Boisdale friends and community of writers, thespians, rock stars and business leaders enjoying foraged gin cocktails and Scottish canapes to the sounds of live jazz, courtesy of a trio of London’s finest musicians at the launch party on Monday 20th May.
 
Stephen Busby, Boisdale of Belgravia’s GM comments, “Flowers genuinely create happiness. In every culture, in every country, and in every generation, they have always lifted our mood, so I’m thrilled to be hosting the Belgravia Flower Show in my restaurant. When it comes to enjoying life in London it doesn’t get much better than decadent interiors filled with flowers, excellent food, superb drinks (being British gin is my particular favourite!) and great live music for which we are famous.”  
 
Notes to Editors:
 
About Boisdale:
Boisdale, originating from the Outer Hebrides, is a critically acclaimed great British restaurant, providing an eclectic environment celebrating the very best of Britain’s heritage through food, drink and music. With sites in Belgravia, Mayfair, Canary Wharf and Bishopsgate, the restaurants have a unique atmosphere in which to enjoy one of the world’s leading whisky collections and exceptional wine list including own bottled wine and vintage champagnes. Also retailing some of the world’s best hand-rolled Cuban and vintage cigars, each Boisdale restaurant features a bespoke humidor, with Boisdale Belgravia, Boisdale of Mayfair and Canary Wharf also offering discreet cigar terraces.
 
About The Botanist Islay Dry Gin:
Small batch and hand-crafted, this fascinating, delicious gin uses nine classic gin botanicals, with the addition of 22 others foraged from the windswept heather hills, peat bogs and Atlantic shores of the island. Blended with skill, these elements are beautifully balanced in this fragrant and floral gin. Conceived, distilled & hand-crafted on the Island of Islay. The Botanist is a gin of layered complexity. A progressive exploration of the botanical heritage of our Isle of Islay. 22 hand-foraged local botanicals delicately augment nine berries, barks, seeds and peels during an achingly slow distillation. This first and only Islay dry gin is a rare expression of the heart and soul of The Botanist’s remote Scottish island home.
 
About Lucy Vail Floristry:
After graduating, Lucy moved to Italy where she worked with the world-famous events florists Tuscany Flowers and Munaretto, in both Florence and Venice. Studying with leading masters of floristry was an invaluable and unparalleled experience that has shaped the florist that Lucy herself has become.
 
Lucy's personal floral design has developed into an enchanting and creative art form, combining her own theatrical flair and unique vision with all that she has learned from the world's leading romantic style florists. After spending just under 2 years in Italy, she returned to the UK and moved to London, where she started working London's leading florists.
 
Lucy and her team have worked with some of the top brands and venues in London and further afield, such as Banqueting House, One Marylebone, Mansion House, Whitehall Place and Claridge’s. Lucy's work is renowned for being fresh and visionary, as well as for its bold use of colour.
 
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