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WELCOME TO THE

INDOOR GARDEN DESIGN 40th ANNIVERSARY SUPPLEMENT Happy birthday to us!

Welcome to Indoor Garden Design’s 40th Anniversary brochure. Our company, founded by Ed Woolf in 1975, is the premier interior landscaping business in London and also operates UK wide.

Indoor Garden Design (IGD) has more than 450 clients at over 600 locations and delivers the highest standards of service by reacting quickly to clients’ changing needs. As well as supplying office plants for interiors, we offer additional services including design consultancy, exterior landscaping, atrium installations, Christmas, floristry and events work, such as The Sir Elton John AIDS Foundation White Tie & Tiara Ball and the BAFTA Awards. We also partner with exterior landscaping companies where clients need a seamless transition with their indoor and outdoor space.

Dutchman Ed Woolf and his wife Brita, a florist, started the business with commercial clients such as The Ritz and London Continental and businesses like Rabobank and Reuters remain clients to this day. Ed was a pioneer in bringing interior landscaping to London as it was pretty much non-existent until that point. With his good eye for design he forged useful contacts with architects and

designers of large developments in the early seventies when a lot of commercial development was underway and the trend was to put lots of plants within offices.

Gradually Ed started to advertise for ‘ladies to look after tropical plants’. He suspected that because plants were in meeting rooms and around offices at the time, ladies were less noticeable and that they would be more discreet. Many of the staff were either actors, writers, artists or ceramicists who would work at IGD part-time to guarantee a certain monthly income.

In the beginning the business operated from Ed’s house and we then moved to an underground car park in Kentish Town 22 years ago, before moving to Highgate, north London, where it is still based today. From the beginning, there was a plan to develop the company and make it successful – Ed always said he wanted to be number two in the market – being number one was too pressurised and there would always be someone wanting to knock you off that top position. IGD’s ethos is to focus on the quality of work and this has been recognised by clients. The business has always concentrated on large corporate work such as headquarters buildings in London, and now covers the UK and can service clients with multiple offices.

With this brochure, we hope you will get an idea of the range of services we provide, and a flavour of the quality and diversity of the many contracts and projects we work on. If you are looking for an outstanding result, with innovative design and top quality service, please contact us to discuss further.

Ian Drummond, David Grace and Pippa Robinson Directors, Indoor Garden Design

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Editorial Lisa Wilkinson lisa.wilkinson@eljays44.com Jim Wilkinson jim.wilkinson@eljays44.com Published by ©Eljays44 Ltd – Connecting Horticulture

CONTENTS 04 Interview with IGD Directors

Indoor Garden Design give us a view from the top

08 Interior landscaping

through the decades Looking back over 40 years of plants and interiors

13 What can

Indoor Garden Design do for you?

From interiors and exterior landscaping to events and floristry

18 Testimonials from clients

Happy customers offering thanks for a job well done

19 Meet the team Introducing the names and faces behind all the hard work

STOP PRESS! Indoor Garden Design has just scooped Gold and Best in Show for its Best Hotel Floristry Exhibit at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show

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Let’s Hear it From Ian Drummond, Pippa Robinson and David Grace

In this enlightening interview, we find out more about Indoor Garden Design directors Ian Drummond, Pippa Robinson and David Grace, their careers and their responsibilities within the business. They also discuss future plans for the company...

In terms of structure of the business – how does it work between the three of you?

DG: We’re all equal shareholders – we

bought the business from Ed in 2012 when he wanted to retire.

When you took over, what were your ideas for taking the business forward?

ID: We’d been pretty much running the

business how we wanted since we became shareholders when Ed took a back seat. In many ways it was a difficult time to buy because the industry was changing due to the recession, but we’d already recognised the changes that needed to happen.

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When did you join and from where?

PR: I joined around 1980-82, Ed never kept

records but it was around that time.

DG: I joined full time on 1 September 1989

and before that I had worked in the summer holidays when I was at university in 1982-83.

I went off to teach for a few years then I needed a break from education and Ed suggested that I come back for two years, which I agreed to. However, here I am still!

ID: I started 22 years ago.

How are the roles divided between you?

DG: We do fairly similar things with individual

specialisms. For example mine tend to be in

exterior elements to the business, ie grounds maintenance contracts, exterior contracts or large projects in atrium spaces. I’m also responsible for the finance side of the business. We all share a sales role.

PR: I’m more involved in the operations side of the business, mainly heading interior planting and looking after the plant room and staff. I am also wheeled out every now and again as the ecologist!

ID: My main input is on the design side, being involved with events and hotels, and also working on marketing campaigns for clients.

What about the wider team?

PR: The staff is about 45. The exterior team

is currently five but will double for the summer with seasonal staff. They nearly always work in teams. The interior side is

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around 15 and the work is more autonomous as the workers go directly to site where plants are delivered direct.

ID: There was a big change when we altered the structure of our interior business ten years ago. Prior to this, our teams would drive to and between sites but the constant traffic made this ineffective. he new structure works so much better because the workers have the freedom to use public transport, knowing that everything is delivered direct to the site.

buildings for e ample. We feel we offer something different from the large facilities companies because we specialise purely on landscaping so we concentrate on what our clients need.

ID: We don’t sell from catalogues, it’s all bespoke. Through our consultations we bring the architecture and branding into the design and realise the clients’ visions.

How do you market yourselves?

ID: For a number of years our relationships

competitive to survive. Clients know that when you’re designing and building bespo e containers there will be a cost and they’re usually happy to pay. We have architects ask us to create their vision and we usually find a way. We are luc y enough to wor with some excellent manufacturers to create the bespoke products our clients require.

were concentrated on architects but when we realised the industry was changing, we moved into hotels and events. The marketing is always based on quality of service, which comes first. We’re now uite happy to be number one and not number two! The other area where we have the upper hand is creativity and we market this as one of our major strengths.

How is the value split in terms of the different areas of the industry you cover?

ID: It used to be 90% contracts but now we

find ourselves with contract and one-offs and large events.

What does the typical contract involve?

DG: It would be headquarters buildings,

high end/high value hotels or corporate

THE OTHER AREA WHERE WE FIND WE HAVE THE UPPER HAND IS ON CREATIVITY AND WE MARKET THIS AS ONE OF OUR MAJOR STRENGTHS

With such a bespoke service, the cost must be quite high?

DG: Yes but we have learned to become

Do clients understand the value of interior plants or do you have to pitch it quite hard?

DG: ome do, some don’t.

ID: They come from different angles.

For some the appearance can show off and represent the feel the client wants to create. Corporates and banking clients are beginning to take an interest in the biophilia side of it and concentrate on the wellbeing that plants can bring.

What’s the geographical breakdown of the areas you serve?

PR: The majority of our work is central

ondon and the

corridor.

DG: 95% of it is within the M25.

ID: Canary Wharf was a big step. When the

area boomed, we became involved in large projects, resulting in considerable growth.

How does the company keep abreast of new developments and trends?

ID: We eep an eye out across the whole

industry – interior and exterior and we go to lots of trade shows like FutureScape to get inspiration. For the events side, where work is more bespoke, inspiration can come from a number of places outside of horticulture. It could be an e hibition you’ve attended or

ust something you’ve noticed. n the corporate side you just need to be aware of how the interior design trends are moving.

Would you offer your services to garden designers or landscapers who either don’t want to or don’t have the expertise to get involved in interiors?

ID: We do, yes. hey often recognise that

it’s not where their s ills lie and we can come up with schemes that complement the style they have created outside.

DG: Usually the interior element of a contract is small compared to the exterior.

1 Living Wall at the Joël Robuchon restaurant, Covent Garden, London 2 Creative Workspace

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company to bring interior landscaping as a design feature into Chelsea, which we are very proud of. It’s also worth noting that our competition doesn’t even attempt to get involved so it’s an area we can excel in.

DG: It’s also a good opportunity for reinforcing our skills and capabilities with our existing clients as well. We invite them to come and see elements of our work that they wouldn’t usually see.

WE’VE MOVED AWAY FROM THE CLEAN CORPORATE LOOK TO SOMETHING THAT HAS MORE OF A LIFESTYLE AESTHETIC – SOMETHING YOU WOULD SEE IN A BEAUTIFUL INTERIORS MAGAZINE OR FIVE STAR HOTEL

What is the best project you’ve worked on and why?

DG: I did a project at the end of 2013 for

Do you actively look for exterior work?

DG: No. Most of it comes from clients we are

doing interior work for. Seldom do we look for it and the type of work we do is not design and build but could be containerised planting in courtyards, terraces and balconies.

How do you source and build relationships with manufacturers?

PR: We have developed relationships with

them over the years and they’re very good at building our ideas – there are some products we use that were concepts we came up with that you won’t find anywhere else. We also talk to stainless steel manufacturers who are good at putting our ideas together.

ID: We generally keep to the same suppliers as they are reliable and good quality.

PR: Time and time again they prove themselves to be skilled craftsmen. Our manufacturers have never let us down. We test the market with new products from time to time but they generally turn up chipped or the quality is poor.

DG: They work to incredibly tight timescales too. I had a job where we needed 50 powder coated galvanised steel troughs, which were turned round in a period of three weeks with Christmas in between! They go that extra mile to deliver, which we value tremendously.

What about motivating, managing and inspiring your staff?

PR: We organise in-house training days.

ID: It has always felt like a family-run

business and we try to hold on to that. We have groceries delivered so the team can 6

have breakfast, lunch and socials that they organise and we fund. We invest in training, which is great because training days give technicians the chance to get together when many work individually most of the time. Our longest serving technician has been here over 30 years, with the average being 10-15.

PR: A couple have left and come back too!

Do you have a membership with any of the industry associations?

ID: Efig of course. ts full focus is on interior

landscaping and it also provides suitable training. The awards are for interior landscape companies and the marketing has been fantastic in recent years. All that in our niche market makes it our number one choice.

Why do you get involved with the RHS Shows – where is the value for you?

ID: It’s great to market yourselves as RHS

Chelsea medal winners. We were the first

Jihae Hwang for a Korean exhibition. The whole thing from design to completion took four weeks and it’s something that I’m incredibly proud of.

ID: I was given free rein on a project in mithfield ar et years ago. Because it was entirely my design, I was able to approach it differently and I found exciting ways of using plants and planters. In recent years, the Cadillac created in flowers to e act scale for Elton ohn’s ummer Ball was a real high because the feedback we received was amazing. In 2013, I had the opportunity to create several installations at St Pancras International to explore the theme ‘Living with Nature’. It ended up being the story of my life in plants and was one of my proudest achievements.

PR: Mine is slightly different. I think one of the company’s great achievements is the longevity of its client relationships. There was a client trained on when first oined.

It has grown and grown and has just signed up to continue with us. This means we’ve grown and changed with them, kept the rapport with different people who have come and gone within that company and for me that is one of our greatest achievements.

Looking to the future What does the future hold for Indoor Garden Design?

ID: On the interior side, our big push will be

to bring interior planting back to the front of people’s minds. It went out of fashion and there is a definite need for pushing it back into their mindset. The styles may

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have changed but we need to show that it can add to the design of commercial space. On the legislation side I’ve been wor ing with Efig to push B EEA into bringing interior landscaping higher up on the agenda – it is currently highly recommended but we want to make it insisted upon.

In which sectors of your industry do you see growth in the immediate future?

PR: I think we will see growth in all sectors.

If you’d asked me last year, I would have said corporate – but now there is such a diverse work ethic to motivate and keep everyone interested that all sectors of our business are growing.

DG: As we mentioned previously, there are certain opportunities to develop on a geographical basis.

ID: Yes, we know we can do this because we already provide national coverage but we need to push our name outside of London.

How about outside of the UK? Would you consider expanding abroad?

PR: We’re not actively looking for work from

abroad but would most definitely consider it.

ID: Yes, absolutely.

Do you see the next few years continuing to see steady growth?

DG: I think it’s going to continue to be a

struggle to grow but we will do so slowly for the next year or two. However, I do see us developing more corporate business.

You can see people are beginning to understand the benefits of plants by the way they are increasingly asking what plants can offer them.

Do you see your growth coming as the market gets bigger or by taking work from your competitors?

DG: We’ve always looked to generate our

Is it natural that businesses may start out small and increase the size of the contract?

DG: Again, it varies. f the client grows, we

own new work and not take work from other businesses. If a competitor’s client comes to us independently that’s another matter but we’ve never gone out to take anyone else’s work.

grow with it, but we may maintain the same number of plants for five years or more.

ID: We don’t try to oversell because that doesn’t do us or the industry any favours.

PR: Customers prefer that honesty. We concentrate on where plants are needed and look right.

Do you find there are businesses that look to poach your clients or is it not something that’s done in the interior landscaping industry?

DG: It’s a very aggressive industry. We will

What trends are on the horizon in interior landscaping?

ID: On the corporate side, the trend is all

often hear from our clients that competitors have been contacting them on a monthly basis to take the work from us.

PR: It used to be a little more honourable than it is now. It has become very apparent that some companies are working their way through our client list!

YOU CAN SEE PEOPLE ARE BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND THE BENEFITS OF PLANTS

BY THE WAY THEY ARE INCREASINGLY ASKING WHAT PLANTS CAN OFFER THEM

about bringing the influence of home into the workplace to make it a softer environment to work in. We do this by putting groups of containers together in softer materials.

We’ve moved away from the clean corporate look to something that has more of a lifestyle aesthetic – something you would see in a beautiful interiors maga ine or five star hotel.

DG: Greater variation between planters and styles within the same contract is also happening – shape is very much bespoke to the particular environment. It is interesting and much more satisfying. We’re pretty much given a blank canvas to design and style an environment as much of the time the client isn’t aware of what they want until they see the design on paper.

1 Grosvenor House Apartments, Mayfair, London 2 Marriott Hotel, London 3 Cadillac car plant installation for The Sir Elton John AIDS Foundation White Tie & Tiara Ball 2012 Photo courtesy of EJAF

Will you be in a position to inflate your rates with the upturn in the economy?

DG: Every job is priced individually so

we don’t have a standard rate to take to a client. Every requirement is different – the environmental factors will change drastically from one office space to another. The product offering can also vary hugely as well.

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GREEN HEROES INDOOR GARDEN DESIGN LOOKS BACK OVER 40 YEARS OF PLANTS AND INTERIORS Indoor Garden Design, the UK’s leading interior landscaping design company, has been bringing nature into interior spaces since 1975. As the vogue for interior plants and planting continues to grow in the work space, Indoor Garden Design’s Creative Director Ian Drummond takes us through five glorious decades of indoor plants...

HOME Unstructured, hippy and bohemian. Think macramé hanging baskets, spilling Spider Plant families, window sills crowded with Lemon Balm, Busy Lizzie and Tradescantia. Plants were very unstructured and if large scale, often grown in a haphazard way – Monstera Delicosas everywhere freed themselves from moss sticks and climbed up staircases and around windows!

This period was the birth of interior landscaping.

Indoor Garden Design pioneered planting in work spaces. At this time planting schemes were very simple, but with high volumes of single specie plants like Yucca and Kentia palm.

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80s HOME A brief nod to Victoriana meant that Aspidistras in chamber pots were suddenly chic, along with ferns, Peace Lilies and Mother In Law’s Tongue. A new edition of Dr DG Hessayon’s ‘The House Plant Expert’ is published in 1980, and goes on to become the world’s bestselling book on houseplants. Our knowledge steadily increases in this decade, although orchids are still regarded as exotic specimens for the specialist grower! Steady evergreen plants such as Rubber Plant remain a favourite in many homes, as longer working hours mean that plants are selected for their ease of care rather than their show-stopping flamboyance.

Our working lives transformed with the financial boom and the ‘loadsamoney’ culture meant that offices and work places became showcases for big, over the top atriums, planted with large scale Mediterranean schemes. Indoor Garden Design worked on large commissions in the City and West End. It was during this decade that the World Health Organisation (WHO) defined a variety of syndromes which only affect occupants whilst they remain in a building, as Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). This syndrome was linked to poor health quality, lack of ventilation and air conditioning.

For office workers, the most common symptoms were headaches, skin irritations, blocked sinuses, runny nose, dry throats, hoarseness, coughing, fatigue and asthma.

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HOME As our interest in design and lifestyle increased, our preference for houseplants reflected this.

Larger single plants were chosen for dramatic impact, and the ubiquitous Weeping Fig and Umbrella Plant became the stars of the decade.

We begin buying more flowering plants than foliage and the average purchaser is younger than their middle-aged counterparts in previous decades.

Younger consumers with a keen sense of design look for showy specimens rather than evergreens.

Some of this increased interest in horticulture within the home can be attributed to the popularity of the BBC’s Homefront, presented by Laurence LlewelynBowen and Diarmuid Gavin, showing the transformation of interior and exterior of a home each week, creating a synergy between home and garden and often merging the lines between the two.

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The aesthetic importance of plants in work spaces begins to build in momentum and our interest in architecture translates into plants grouped in installations with an emphasis on interesting and arresting structure – the planting schemes and the containers became the focal point.

Two research programmes during this decade, one in the UK and one in the US, underline the health benefits of plants in the working environment. Researchers Russell and Lohr used tests to increase adrenaline, mental arithmetic and a computer test.

The results of the tests had similar findings: stress levels rose as the delegates took part in these timed activities and in both cases the physical symptoms of stress returned to normal more quickly with plants present.

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HOME Our homes open up to embrace the outdoors, as we bring nature inside. Our interest in food, particularly in growing our own vegetables, alters the way we keep plants in our home. Kitchen window sills are now filled with herbs, peppers, chillies, sprouting seeds – anything that can be container grown in small places and provide visual and culinary interest.

The ‘inside outside’ boom gathers pace and bi-fold doors become ubiquitous in style-conscious homes, making the transition between home and garden as seamless as possible.

In hallways and living rooms, elegant orchids play a central role. No longer regarded as the preserve of the expert – their ease of care, plus widespread availability and stunning good looks allows them to take centre stage.

It was during this decade that Jo Malone’s floral and herbal scents became so popular. Plants were seen as luxurious and pampering and their scent became an aspirational part of the home environment.

WORKPLACE Interior planting booms in the work place. Toward the end of this decade Sick Building Syndrome becomes more widely known and understood.

Significantly, new studies show that plants alleviate this condition – in one research study, complaints of headaches were reduced by 45% while sickness absenteeism from these symptoms is significantly reduced.

Studies in Norway and The Netherlands in 2008 also show that plants help workers remain calm and take less time off. The Norwegian studies, undertaken by Tina Bringslimark, an expert in environmental psychology, analysed 305 office workers in three different offices, each of which had differing amounts of greenery. The offices where plants were more visible showed a decline in self-reported sick leave, compared with the others. The studies in The Netherlands found that plants primarily have an uplifting effect on

stressed and tired individuals. In these groups of people the differences in performance recorded in offices with and without plants were even greater.

This study also confirmed the restorative effect of plants. Subgroups of physically exhausted students and students indicating high levels of work stress benefited from plants in the room where they perform their tasks.

Employers understand the importance of a healthy working environment. Indoor planting schemes are now a fundamental part of office life, no longer confined to lobbies but integrated within meeting and working areas. Indoor Garden Design created installations for the BBC as part of its Work, Rest and Play theme, using plants to define and create distinct areas for specific purposes.

Using plants to define multi-tasking areas within offices also became more prevalent during this period because of increasing space constraints.

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HOME As gadgets and smart phones mean that our lives become ever more hectic, plants provide a natural counter balance to make homes feel more lived-in and relaxed. We continue to be increasingly health conscious and stress is an ever greater adversary – plants provide a soothing sense of nature and balance.

We enjoy the seasonality of plants. The seasonality of food and our desire to enjoy food at its best makes us ever more aware of the cycle of plants, whether they are grown for food or aesthetic enjoyment.

The look is more design-led, with carefully thought-out planters and containers that harmonise with sophisticated interior design schemes. Low maintenance and high visual impact groupings of succulents also enjoy a revival. Conversely, homes begin to see ‘seventies’ interior plants.

Within carefully crafted schemes, there is a wildness emerging, containers reflect nature and natural materials, quite literally bringing the ‘outside in’. The popularity of cut flowers, of all kinds, continues to blossom!

WORKPLACE Elements from the home and nature become more prevalent in working areas as employees have greater control over their personal environment – even one plant on or beside a desk is shown to reduce negative mood states. This period sees a rise in popularity of desk terrariums as well as Vanda Orchids as workers have more choice and input into their immediate desk area.

A study published in 2010 by Professor Margaret Burchett of the University of Technology in Sydney, further showed that plants reduce stress by as much as 50%. Using psychological survey questionnaires, Burchett showed a mean average of reductions in negative mood states of between 40 to 60%. In the control group with no plants, stress levels rose by 20%.

In 2013 Indoor Garden Design collaborated with Exeter University in an experiment undertaken at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show to show that office plants can assist in boosting staff well-being by up to 47%.

Visitors to the show were challenged to take part in the study which measured their creativity, happiness and

productivity as they experienced a range of different work space designs. Ninety experiments took place across the week and involved a total of 350 participants.

The results showed that allowing staff to make design decisions in a work space enhanced with office plants can increase well-being by 47%, creativity by 45% and productivity by 38%. These findings would be expected to translate to a significant increase in business profitability, confronting the tired belief that plants and art are an unnecessary or even wasteful element of the business environment. Results from this and related scientific investigations show that across all measures of psychological comfort and business performance, the managerially popular controlled, lean office, is consistently inferior to a space enriched by the design decisions of people who work there.

Plants are now regarded as so much more than decorative embellishments. They have been proven time and time again to reduce stress, improve morale and significantly contribute to a happy, healthy working environment.

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EXPERT DESIGN, INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE OF INTERIOR PLANTING SCHEMES

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PLANTED CREATIONS FOR CHARITY EVENTS SUCH AS THE ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION WHITE TIE & TIARA BALL

SET DESIGN, FILM PREMIERES, FASHION SHOWS AND DISPLAYS FOR DESIGNERS SUCH AS VITRA

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TRADITIONAL, CONTEMPORARY AND BESPOKE CHRISTMAS CREATIONS

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PLANTING FOR LUXURY HOTELS, RESTAURANTS AND RETAILERS SUCH AS HARRODS AND SELFRIDGES

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STUNNING, PRACTICAL, ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS VERTICAL GARDENS

BEAUTIFUL, SUSTAINABLE FLOWERING DISPLAYS FOR RECEPTIONS

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PLANT SUPPLY AND BUILD OF AWARD-WINNING GARDENS AT THE WORLD’S GREATEST FLOWER SHOW

EXCEPTIONAL QUALITY ARTIFICIAL PLANTS, TREES & FLOWERS

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The trees have been received with total approbation. We love them and they are the best yet. I am going to leave all the Christmas ideas to you in future.

MEDIA CLIENT AND SATISFIED CHRISTMAS CLIENT

We have been using Indoor Garden Design as our selected indoor plant provider for over 20 years now. I have been responsible for them for the last 12 years. In this time we have asked them to provide us with many variations and recommendations for our office, they have never let me down. ur offices are attended to by Chris who is always polite, keen and most of the time you would not know she is there.

LONG-STANDING CORPORATE CLIENT

I just wanted to drop you a line to thank you all for the work and effort that has gone in to replanting the atrium; please pass on my thanks to your teams. The entire atrium looks amazing and is completely transformed by the Kentia palms; really like the look. Well done everyone; another key milestone achieved.

Indoor Garden Design has maintained our plant requirements for 15 years. The attention to detail and standard is the same today as when the contract commenced. The operatives have a vast knowledge and are always polite and the management team reacts very quickly to any queries.

CORPORATE CLIENT

SERVICES CLIENT

The arrival of the indoor plants over the past week has transformed our site.

I can only say on behalf of the school a big thank you for thinking of us.

Your delivery guys were also very helpful, despite being understandably busy and your Jim deserves particular thanks.

PRO BONO CLIENT – LOCAL SCHOOL PLANT DONATION

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I just wanted to send a quick email and thank the lady who came late on Tuesday night to collect our tree. It was really so much appreciated. It was late in the day too, so the extra special effort should not go without thanks. I am sorry I never got her name but please let her know we are very grateful.

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MEET THE TEAM Ian Drummond, Pippa Robinson and David Grace Patrick Miaron, Jim Fawcett, Daniel Kiphart, Mirek Colakov

DIRECTORS

Jane Baylis is awarded Technician of the Year 2015 by Ian Drummond

TECHNICIAN OF THE YEAR

INSTALLATION TEAM

Zoe Tillier, Ian Drummond, Deanne Guppy, Gordon Davie

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Attila Malinik, Jakub Jaruga, Alba Campos Vazquez, Slava Zarubin, Orville Edwards, Marino Kisby, Jerome Kenway, Martha Pechlivanidou and David Grace

EXTERIOR TEAM

Jenny Down, Valdir Rodriguez, Lynne Robinson, Dagmara Radwan, Veronica McCormack, Amanda Clarkson, David Marriott, Wayne Jarvis, Sara Rodrigues de Oliviera, Simon Gorman, Alba Campos Vazquez, Peter Niczewski, Vicky Fox, Laura Smith, Jane Baylis, Anna Jones, Pippa Robinson

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Indoor Garden Design has scooped Gold and Best in Show for Best Hotel Floristry Exhibit at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2015

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