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Hampton Court Palace Flower Show

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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.

My Favourite Chelsea Flower Show Winners

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Well that’s Chelsea Flower Show over for another year and now we have to look forward to the Hampton Court show which is in July. Here are some of my favourite gardens from Chelsea 2012.

Best Artisan Garden I love this one because of the planting. Acers are my favourite small trees.

I voted for the Bronte Garden in the small garden category and it won. It’s my kind of garden because I love all the stone, the burn running through it and the semi wild planting. It’s the sort of garden which would attract loads of wildlife.

I’m never madly keen on the big show gardens, they nearly always seem cold and clinical to me, don’t ask me why, maybe it’s because the structures tend to be the most important things in them and often there are hardly any plants at all.

One thing that I do lust after is that 1950s caravan. Wouldn’t it be a wonderful thing to have at the bottom of your garden! The photo is taken from blog.lauraashley.com.

Chelsea Flower Show caravan

Hampton Court Palace Flower Show

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I had really been looking forward to this show but I don’t know what happened. I completely missed it on TV. I think it was on too early for me as I tend not to watch anything in the early evening during summer.

Anyway, luckily you can watch it on the internet nowadays so I’ve been trying to catch up with it.

Take a look here, if you are interested in gardens and plants.