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he is the daughter of the
founder of the business and
today is helped by her cousin,
Paul Smith, technical director,
and her brother Peter who is
installations director.
Other factors in the company’s success
have been the National Garden Scheme
collection of glasshouses and customer
demand driven by exhibiting at the Chelsea and Hampton Court flower shows.
Griffin Glasshouses create beautiful bespoke glasshouses for discerning gardeners in the UK and internationally. With
more than 50 years’ experience in the
industry, the family run business based
in Ropley near Winchester in Hampshire,
offers a range of unique design glasshouses from lean-to, free-standing, to
its NGS collection. The majority of their
made-to- measure designs reflect the
specialist features that were common in
structures created in the Victorian era.
“We have had some amazing bespoke
commissions in 2015 including
replicating the historic glasshouses
at Cardigan Castle and designing and
building structures to accommodate a
mini mountain for a customer’s prized
collection of Alpine plants. We have
also designed and built our smallest
glasshouse to date which had a
footprint of just 2.1m x 1.5m” adds Linda.
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