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Create our Christmas Table

Create our Christmas Table

Create our Christmas Table With Christmas fast approaching, now is the time to start thinking about planning your styling for the Christmas table to wow your guests. At Pod & Pip we believe in keeping it simple, so we have created a look again this year that with just a...

The Pod & Pip Puzzle

The Pod & Pip Puzzle

The Pod & Pip Puzzle Always a bestseller in the Pod & Pip shop at Christmas are Jigsaw Puzzles. So we decided to take matters into our own hands this year, and have the talented Hannah Watchorn paint our very own Cutting Garden at Pod & Pip.  We use our Cutting Garden for a...

The Shirt Edit

The Shirt Edit

The Shirt Edit With a change in the air in the morning, the nights noticeably drawing in and the hedgerows abundant with berries, pods and pips Autumn is definitely on the way. So it’s time to start thinking about putting the summer dresses and t-shirts away and think about cosying...

Effortless pieces for your Summer Wardrobe

Effortless pieces for your Summer Wardrobe

Effortless pieces for your Summer Wardrobe Super excited to introduce our new Summer Collection at Pod & Pip filled with easy to wear, easy to style dresses and shirts for the summer season. Our first Summer Collection and as always nonsense classics you can slip into a capsule wardrobe for...

Flowers Inspired by Cecil Beaton

Flowers Inspired by Cecil Beaton

Flowers Inspired by Cecil Beaton We love a brief which provokes some thought and exploration. From the Chalke History Festival, which takes place at the end of June just down the road in Broadchalke we got just that. Could we provide some flowers for the VIP marquee where guests and...

Tips for creating a stand out summer dining table

Tips for creating a stand out summer dining table

Tips for creating a stand out summer table With the summer in sight, now is the time to seize the opportunity for some alfresco dining. It’s great fun dressing the table for those lazy summer days and everyone enjoys a slow lunch or supper outside with friends and family. Here...

Introducing the Pod & Pip Dahlia Collection

Introducing the Pod & Pip Dahlia Collection

Introducing the Pod & Pip Dahlia Collection We love all things dahlia like at Pod & Pip, from the huge dinner plate varieties to the compact pompom, the spikey cactus dahlias and show off decorative dahlias. The huge array of colours they bring to the Pod & Pip Cutting Garden...

Gardening Job List for April into May

Gardening Job List for April into May

Gardening Job List April into May With the garden springing into action quite literally, now its time to spend some time tackling a number of flowery gardening jobs. So what needs to be done in April coming into May for a bountiful garden of blooms this year?   Gardening Job...

Tips for creating a stand out summer dining table

Tips for creating a stand out summer dining table

Tips for creating a stand out summer table With the summer in sight, now is the time to seize the opportunity for some alfresco dining. It’s great fun dressing the table for those lazy summer days and everyone enjoys a slow lunch or supper outside with friends and family. Here...

Gardening Job List for April into May 1

Gardening Job List for April into May 1

Gardening Job List April into May With the garden springing into action quite literally, now its time to spend some time tackling a number of flowery gardening jobs. So what needs to be done in April coming into May for a bountiful garden of blooms this year? Sow any annuals...

Spring Capsule Collection

Spring Capsule Collection

Spring Capsule Collection As we look forward to the nights drawing out and warmer, sunnier days (hopefully) its time to give our wardrobe a little bit of TLC. Our Spring capsule collection has now arrived at Pod & Pip with fresh colours and staples for the Spring season to help...

The Joy of Spring Flowers

The Joy of Spring Flowers

With the often gloomy, cold and grey days throughout January and February we look forward to warmer and brighter Spring days, with softer sunshine and the sound of uplifting birdsong once again. To help us on the way through this seasonal transition we have the joy of Spring flowers.

The Winter Rose

The Winter Rose

An absolute winter favourite are Hellebores, often referred to as the Christmas Rose. It’s the soft colours that they come in from pure winter whites, to gentle pinks and dusky purple tones that catch the attention with their dark evergreen leaves.

Layering the Christmas Table

Layering the Christmas Table

Always a highlight of the festive season, is the Christmas dinner and it's great fun to style up the table settings and 'tablescape' each year to make it extra special. It's all about 'layering' up the table components to make an eye catching table, and here's how to do it.

Introducing Pod & Pip's Crackers

Introducing Pod & Pip's Crackers

The Christmas Cracker is a firm favourite on the table on Christmas Day along with the turkey and all the trimmings. Its origins date back to the 1840s when a London confectioner Tom Smith was inspired when he discovered the French 'Bon Bon' a sugared almond wrapped in a twist of paper...

How to Make a Foraged Autumn Wreath

How to Make a Foraged Autumn Wreath

With the hedgerows bursting with the seasons bounty now is an opportune time to explore the countryside and indulge in a spot of foraging to make an Autumn wreath.

Autumn Capsule Wardrobe

Autumn Capsule Wardrobe

It’s that time of year. Evenings drawing in, pods, pips and berries in the hedgerow, the smell of Autumn in the air and definitely time to start cosying up in knits and boots and to put the summer clothes away for another year.

Very Merry Boots

Very Merry Boots

Just arrived in the workshop are these fun, fashionable, welly ankle boots from the wonderfully energetic company Merry People. They caught our eye and we couldn't resist!

How to layer up for Summer Entertaining

How to layer up for Summer Entertaining

Chalky pink and dusty blue gingham textiles have just arrived in the workshop and we love them! The tablecloths, table runners and seat pads are proving to be super popular and we have loved styling them up.

Garden Furniture Fixes

Garden Furniture Fixes

Needing to add some storage or to style up a space in the garden? We may have the answer! A couple of carefully selected pieces of garden furniture can really make the difference.

Flower Bowl Arranging

Flower Bowl Arranging

One of our very favourite flower arrangements! The Flower Bowl makes an undeniable statement for the home, event or wedding. Perfect for every season and occasion it's just a matter of choosing the foliage and flowers to suit the style you are looking for. Super easy to make and foam free too!

Fit For a King

Fit For a King

Why not make your own flower crown for the King’s Coronation. It's great fun to do with friends, super easy and anything goes! Go wild and boho or pretty and delicate, the style is completely up to you!

How to make an Easter Bunny

How to make an Easter Bunny

With Easter round the corner its time to think about plans for long the weekend and spending time with friends and family. One of the fun things that Easter now brings and is gaining in popularity, is the decorating of the home. Easter trees with blossom branches or twigs adorned with decorative eggs...

Coffee Time

Coffee Time

We are proud to support small and local businesses, one of which is our coffee bean supplier for the Pod & Pip cafe. The ingenious company takes green coffee beans which are 100% sustainably produced and then Eco-Roasts them in their Roastery in nearby Dorset, using the very latest innovative Eco Roast technology...

Spring Clean

Spring Clean

With the birds singing outside, signs of spring in the garden and sunshine streaming through the windows, we are often prompted to have a good spring clean...

Pod & Pip’s Mini Makeover

Pod & Pip’s Mini Makeover

So while we were closed for the month of January we were busy behind the scenes not only planning, prepping and sourcing for the year ahead but giving the workshop and cafe a mini makeover. It's amazing what a lick of paint can do!

Shop small this Christmas

Shop small this Christmas

At Pod & Pip we are proud to source from small, local and British businesses to stock our shelves and absolutely love finding a small business gem. This Christmas we have some absolute crackers (excuse the pun), and the workshop is brimming with some wonderful products from some wonderful small business.

Tick off the Christmas List

Tick off the Christmas List

Stuck for Christmas pressie ideas? Look no further, we hope we can help you with your gift conundrums with our Christmas Gift Guide. We have selected our top picks from the workshop but there are plenty more gifts too...

Pumpkins, squashes and gourds

Pumpkins, squashes and gourds

At this time of year, pumpkins, squashes and gourds are now making an appearance more so for autumnal decoration than eating, and are now a really simple and inexpensive way of add some Autumn styling to the home.