BBC Radio 4 'You and Yours' features garden gnomes

Which do you prefer? These happy chappies or....the irresistible Mr Gold?

Just to prove that we are experiencing a revival in garden gnomes, BBC 4's 'You and Yours' programme have today run a feature on them. According to Solus garden supplies, they have experienced a doubling of sales of their garden gnome ranges and Chelsea Flower show designer, David Domeney managed to persuade the RHS to lift their ban on garden gnomes for his World Cup garden design in 2010. Although you might not feel like rushing out and buying some of the colourful plastic gnomes that fell out of favour in the 60s/70s, it appears lots of people are falling in love with Mr Gold, our china gold gnome. He was a popular Christmas gift and with the interest created by Gnomeo & Juliet, we're expecting him to feature again on wedding lists as last summer!

Revival of Gold Fashion Jewellery

My daughter came home from an afternoon shopping with her teenage friends this weekend with this gold elephant pendant from Accessorize. She also bought her best mate a gold bee pendant from River Island. At BeGolden, we've been aware of the gold revival in fashion jewellery over the last year or so, but when my daughter declared that silver is so last year, it confirmed that this is a trend that has gone mainstream. Just to underline this revival, if you take a look at Accessorize's web shop, you'll see that of all the listed items 118 are gold versus 70 in silver. We are currently on the look out for new gold jewellery ranges to compliment the contemporary range we have from Lucas Jack and the delicate pieces we stock from Mirabelle so we should have more to delight you with soon at BeGolden.

Gnomeo and Juliet

Apparently the world is teetering on the edge of gnome hysteria!

America has supposedly gone gnome mad and then with the fab new Gnomeo and Juliet film coming out then many are prediciting a huge rush on our faithful garden ornaments. Not 100% sure I'm going to get caught up in this craze ( but then I did say I'd never wear leggings) but if I do then the gnome at the bottom of my garden will definitely be gold!
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