I’ve been busy in my front garden recently, it has been almost completely neglected since we moved house over a year ago as I’ve been concentrating on the back garden. The opposite from what most people would do I suppose but the front garden is obviously not that private and I’m not so keen on being on show while I’m working. I hope to have some photos of the front garden soon though, when some of the roses which I’ve planted are in bloom. So after all that exhausting digging up of grass and planting, I was glad to sit down and relax by watching other people’s horticultural efforts.
Yes it’s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show time again. Apparently it isn’t as snobbish as the Chelsea Flower Show and is more visitor friendly, but I’ve never got around to visiting either of them, I’m a bit London phobic! If you’re interested you can read a lot of articles about the flower show here.
There don’t seem to be any videos online of the gardens yet, but I found the sketches of gardens quite interesting.
You can see some of the show garden drawings here.
Love love love London! (But I’m a city girl.) Funny story about our one (failed) attempt to tour Hampton court: We took a boat ride from London up the Thames – and a perfect day for a leisurely float – but when we arrived at Hampton Court, we realized that the (similarly leisurely) return trip would just barely get us back in time to make it to the West End for a show that we were ticked to attend that night. Never made it inside!! But still made the show and it was fabulous!
So now we have something to do next time we are in London!!
Pearl,
That’s something to look forward to then. I often wish we had done things like that when we lived close to London for a couple of years, not long after we got married – but probably we couldn’t afford it then!