Sssshhhh. Lulu’s Secret Blog…

Mwahahahaha! My name is Lulu and I’ve taken over this blog from my mummy & daddy. They don’t know that I’ve commandeered it, in fact they don’t know that I know anything about blogging. You see, I’m only 17 months old and they clearly underestimate my technology skills so I’ve decided that I’ll be keeping this blog up to date from now on.

Hi, I’m Lulu and this is my blog

So what’ll I write about? Well, mummy & daddy (from now on I’ll refer to them as M&D) run two gardening businesses and love everything to do with gardens so from a very young age (I’m a big girl now, did I tell you I was 17 months old??) I have been out & about in gardens whether it be visiting them, tending to them or even designing them! The long & short of it is I’m beginning to garner quite a nice set of green fingers (and not just from my crayons) so I thought I’d use this blog to share the things I enjoy doing or the things I learn. I’ll show you pics of the gardens we visit (M&D are always taking pics of me so I’ll have plenty to choose from!) and tell you fun ideas for things to do with your mummies & daddies & friends in your garden. Sometimes I will give you advice and tell you things that only experts like me normally know but mummy says it’s important to share so that’s what I’m gonna do.

Anyway, I’ve introduced myself now and I hope you find what I post of interest. If you like things here then please share this with your friends. Just don’t tell M&D what I’m doing…

Lulu

It’s All In A Name

We are regularly asked how we came up with the name Vialii Garden Design. Some people think it’s our surname (we were tempted to change our names by deed poll as it sounds a lot more glamorous than Burt!) but the real reason is simple – it’s the name of one of our favourite flowers, the Primula vialii.

The beautiful primula vialii

Primula vialii is a striking plant with its poker shape and lilac base and red tip. They look great planted in groups and make a vibrant splash in the garden in early to mid summer. They work best as a woodland or bog plant and love to be kept moist and like partial shade. They are easy to grow and need little care. They quickly multiply and can be divided later in the year.

Primula vialii look wonderful planted in groups

So, once we had the name, we needed to come up with a logo. A friend of ours recommended Margaret Scott, a graphic designer based in Edinburgh. We met with Margaret to explain what we were looking for – we wanted the V of Vialii to look like a stylised Primula vialii. Very quickly Margaret came back with the fabulous logo which you can now see emblazoned on all of our designs, websites, stationery, uniforms, vehicles – you name it, we brand it!

Our Vialii logo

Finally, Margaret also created a stylised plant for us which we use as a footer on stationery, website and dotted here and there.

Our stylised Vialii

So there you go, a potted history (excuse the pun!) of Vialii.

All at Vialii