I spent more time than I should have looking at dog coffins and pet funerals this afternoon. I find it amusing that some dog coffins are shaped like human coffins and I wonder how many people order one and find out their dog doesn't fit in there?
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The school shooting figures from America are frightening. 950 shootings in schools since 2014. Even outside of this, 44 children are shot every day and 12 of them die on average. What a total mess that country is in
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I thought that there were several Gold medal winning gardens that really deserved the Best in Show award, and that wasn't one of them. I think Monty also raised the question "ls it really a garden ?", but this has come up in previous years with the Yorkshire gardens that included lock gates etc. I'm always interested to hear the judge's explanation for the medal awarded, James Alexander-Sinclair explained the reasoning behind one last night, but l'd like to hear the reasoning behind the Silver for the Perennial garden in particular.
"Rewilding Britain’s Sara King says, “The garden has given us the opportunity to bring some of the wonder of rewilding to Chelsea Flower Show. We visited several beaver sites in preparation to observe beavers in nature and understand how they create landscapes. All of the material used is taken from these sites – it hasn’t been cut down by people, but by beavers.”
What are the garden highlights?
The garden includes materials taken from a beaver site in Southern England: beaver chips and claw-scratched logs, for example. A brook flows through the space (water runs in a loop) and there is a woodland edge of hawthorn, elder, viburnum, hazel and field maple. The lodge, built around a white willow (salix alba), is the beavers’ family home and within it are several chambers and even a swimming pool for young kits to learn to swim in."
They dismantled an actual beaver estate! To me, that's destruction.
No they didn’t, they collected bits of Beaver gnawed wood from areas where Beavers lived and made their own damn. The designers explained exactly how they did it on the show. Nothing was destroyed.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I do wonder whether the Perennial Garden was marked down because it was so similar to a previous Chelsea garden from a few years ago. Beautiful, possibly, derivative, most definitely.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I try to remind myself that Chelsea show gardens aren't really gardens, they're fantasies. Then I can enjoy them without thinking "but where would you put the bins/washing line/pots of young plants being grown on or hardened off/heap of old pots and other miscellaneous stuff that I'll find a use for"
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I hate this so-called garden. It's nothing of the sort.
What a total shambles.
I'm always interested to hear the judge's explanation for the medal awarded, James Alexander-Sinclair explained the reasoning behind one last night, but l'd like to hear the reasoning behind the Silver for the Perennial garden in particular.
https://www.theenglishgarden.co.uk/news-and-events/chelsea-flower-show/day-1-at-rhs-chelsea-gardens-best-in-show-and-project-giving-back/
"Rewilding Britain’s Sara King says, “The garden has given us the opportunity to bring some of the wonder of rewilding to Chelsea Flower Show. We visited several beaver sites in preparation to observe beavers in nature and understand how they create landscapes. All of the material used is taken from these sites – it hasn’t been cut down by people, but by beavers.”
What are the garden highlights?
The garden includes materials taken from a beaver site in Southern England: beaver chips and claw-scratched logs, for example. A brook flows through the space (water runs in a loop) and there is a woodland edge of hawthorn, elder, viburnum, hazel and field maple. The lodge, built around a white willow (salix alba), is the beavers’ family home and within it are several chambers and even a swimming pool for young kits to learn to swim in."
They dismantled an actual beaver estate! To me, that's destruction.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border