Christmas Cards           

Last year we had two cards of which we preordered supplies to help quick delivery of your orders. That worked well so this year we have again picked two designs. ‘Arcade and Sundial’, with its golden sky, also 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 these cards with greetings in three options:
• 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.  
• In addition, there is a range of 16 other Holland Park cards in the brochure enclosed with this newsletter.
These will be available from 1 November but please order 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 more have to be printed, especially towards the end of the season.

You can order from The Friends’ website HERE.  
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 make a donation to. Naturally we would hope it was The Friends, but you are free to choose any charity.

Rhoddy Wood

[September 2025]