I’ve been watching the coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show, it’s their centenary year. It has been a terrible year so far for plants and the horticulturalists must have been pulling their hair out trying to get plants ready for the show.
So far I’ve seen plenty of lovely plants but the large show gardens which I’ve seen have been a disappointment to me. The designs seem to be very bitty, as if they are all trying too hard and the result is a bit of a mish-mash. I think that in any design you should keep in mind that ‘more is less’ – unless you’re decorating a Christmas tree!
To be fair, I’m always far more impressed with the smaller gardens, I suppose they’re a bit like short stories and those show gardens are the hefty tomes, the ones which could have been doing with a good editor! I’ll still be glued to Chelsea on my TV this week though, and also voting online for my favourite gardens and plants.
If you’re interested in gardening you should take a look at the RHS website here. You can look at the directory of gardens and choose your own favourites.
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Oh, how fun! I’ll have a little look around the website since I can’t watch the show. I love gardens, especially lush, green ones full of flowers – mostly because that is a fantasy here in Phoenix đŸ™‚
Anbolyn,
There are plenty of lush green gardens here, if only we could share some of our rain with Phoenix! I hope you get a chance to walk in some real lush gardens in the future, bring a raincoat!
Would love to see coverage of a flower show on television – what a hoot!
I love to walk through beautiful gardens. One of the most stunning I’ve ever seen was Powerscourt in Ireland – the sheer size of it was amazing. Of course, it’s not all one garden – it’s a collection of different ones, all different kinds. And Monet’s garden was glorious – overwhelming in it’s profusion and variety, even as fall was approaching. I’d love to go again in the spring and summer one day.
Pearl,
It’s on all week and the Queen usually visits on the first day, so it’s all rather posh, but highly enjoyable!
We were very near Giverny once but didn’t go probably because we were trailing wee boys around, but I’d love to go sometime. One good thing about the UK is the profusion of gardens to visit.