I have loved all the gardens. I am always impressed by all the hard work and planning too. I think we all need to look for positivity in a very negative world.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
I agree with Hostafan (for a change), distinctly much of a muchness, too much emphasis on 'weeds' and not much excitement or the wow factor.
The best is to my mind is Chris Beardshaw's garden , he's a master at plant selection and placement. That charity is close to my heart as well as it's what my beloved mum died of.
@Lizzie27 As you say every Chris Beardshaw garden is a masterclass in plants. I have plants in my garden that remind me of my Mum. Perhaps you could choose and grow something from Chris Beardshaw's Chelsea garden. Or may be you already have plants in your garden that he features maybe a coincidence but it would be a lovely one.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
I would have liked to have taken a walk through Jihae Hwang 's garden A Letter From a Million Years Past. Maybe not a garden as such but none the less beautiful. It included lots of medicinal plants one of which I recognised. I didn't know it's name but it has grown in my garden for many years , label lost long ago. Endangered in parts of Korea, Polygonatum stenophyllum Maxim is delicate and beautiful. The last plant to appear in a shady part of my garden it weaves through Asarum Europaeum It is used in Chinese medicine, Nick Bailey knew it and featured it, perhaps he grew it at The Chelsea Physic garden?
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
A lovely sunny day in Surrey. Driving around, not kooking at gardens but looking at fields and hedgerows. Buttercups. sorrel, ragwort, may, elder chestnuts. Why the fag of going up to Chelsea?
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Gett ing back to Chelsea ! It’s what the thread is called after all . Whilst watching the BBC coverage, of which there is a good amount of air time I think , can someone please tell Joe Swift that it’s not the Chelsea Garden Show ,it’s aFlower show , I tune in to see flowers ,don’t give a flying fig about who made the best garden ,show me the flowers!!!
I don't think it's fair to " blame " him. Take it up with the programme producers / directors.
I can't stand the man so I'm perfectly happy for him to be blamed for everything.
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on 'weeds' and not much excitement or the wow factor.
The best is to my mind is Chris Beardshaw's garden , he's a master at plant selection and placement. That charity is close to my heart as well as it's what my beloved mum died of.
It is used in Chinese medicine, Nick Bailey knew it and featured it, perhaps he grew it at The Chelsea Physic garden?
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I can't stand the man so I'm perfectly happy for him to be blamed for everything.