Went to Chelsea Flower Show on Wednesday ....poured with rain the whole time!! :' I was struck by the irony of all the drought-resistant gardens threatened with flooding...
The graphics here are not mine, as I haven't got the photos back yet...they are from the RHS Webpage.
OK, the first thing I bought was an RHS T-Shirt!! Which turned out to be very useful when I got home, as I was literally soaked to the skin, and had to towel myself dry and find some clean dry clothes to put on...so I was glad I'd bought the T-Shirt!
During the short period when it wasn't raining, we took the opportunity to look at the Show Gardens.
This shows the notorious sculpture of the green woman reclining! Not sure how good a reproduction it is...if you SEE it, she looks like an Earth Goddess at rest, I loved it.
This is a clearer image of her.
The Daily Telegraph Garden was judged BEST IN SHOW...well deserved, I think you'll agree!
Although I also loved the Laurent-Perrier garden, shown above - the integration of wild and cultivated was very skilfully done.
Of course it started raining, so we then went into the Pavillion, where I visited all my old favourites, especially Jekka's Herb Farm.
I think she has won about 9 Gold Medals at Chelsea by now, well-deserved. From her I bought just some Ruby Chard seeds and some Borage, as I had already ordered plug plants from her on-line.
Pansies and violas, of course...bought some beautiful black violas!!
Lilies...I just bought three lily bulbs from the stall pictured above, which I planted this morning.
I LOVE fuchsias. I ordered a selection of 12 - the supplies chooses them for you, I've always been happy with the choice.
Ken Muir's gorgeous strawberries, of course - didn't buy any this year, but loved the display.
Well....made our way home in the pouring rain, broke and exhausted as usual, but happy!!!
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trolly
oh, what a great blog :-)
thank you.
i've never been to chelsea flower show, but just love the fact that it brings all kinds of all kinds of ideas and people together.
i did catch a fun report on the Today programme last week, when a journalist smuggled in a garden gnome and did his best to try and place it in a number of show gardens and elicit response.
evidently gnomes are banned!
but, as the report explored, what today is seen as tacky and is much derided, was once a highly coveted garden ornament much prized by 19th C well-heeled types.
i should have liked to see the green woman: what a lovely idea, and beautifully executed.
trolly x