Christmas cards and Christmas gifts

Last minute gifts are often a challenge when you visit friends and family over the festive season. So why not have a look at what The Friends have to offer. There are two designs of cotton tea towel; one showing paintings of some of the flowers growing wild in Holland Park and the other with paintings of autumn fruits in the park. The packs of ‘Holland House through the trees’ greetings cards makes an excellent gift, as does the handy jute shopper decorated with a tree motif. There is a new pack of post cards of each of the 11 marouflage paintings. And how about treating someone to a gift of our Holland Park Snakes and Ladders game.

This year we have again picked two designs of Christmas card ‘Arcade and Sundial’, with its golden sky, shows the small pine trees beyond the steps which were transplanted from the park’s display at Chelsea Flower Show around the time of the Millennium. We are repeating The Stable Yard, which was so popular last year. Both cards are by Terry McKivragan, who painted many of the earlier Holland Park cards. 

The standard greeting on all Christmas cards is ‘With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year’, but you can choose to ask for them blank. We hold a supply of our chosen two card designs, with greetings, in two sizes. We also have the option of a mixed pack:

• Standard, 152 mm x 197 mm format at £7.25 for five. 
• Smaller, 118 mm x 168 mm at £12.50 for ten.   
• Mixed packs of ten designs of Holland Park from past years, at £6.50. These will be mostly the larger size and in three or four different designs.  

If your newsletter is hand delivered (no stamp), our delivery of Christmas cards is free. If your newsletter is delivered by post, we have to charge an additional £2.10 per ten cards, or a single pack of five large. Please note that sending the order to The Friends, instead of direct to Mountbatten, gets The Friends an extra discount, unless overprinting is required.  If you do order direct, please remember to say which charity you would like Mountbatten to donate to. Naturally we would hope it was The Friends, but you are free to choose any charity.

Please order cards as soon as possible so that the publisher can estimate in advance how many to print.  We will keep some in stock, but delivery gets slower when we have to print more, especially towards the end of the season.

• You can order Christmas cards and merchandise on the website.  Click HERE for cards, then see merchandise under the heading of 'Other'.
• Snakes & Ladders is not available on-line or via the order form, but can be bought from the Park Reception Office. 

All cards and merchandise ar e available to buy from the Park Reception Office in the Stable Yard. 

[November 2025]