Glad you enjoyed your day out. I do agree that 2013's Chelsea was pretty boring but I was also viewing it from a wheelchair which gives a whole different perspective especially when one idiot designer fixed a rail at eye height and blocked the view. Last year was better but samey so I didn't bother this year. I do agree about that corridor effect along Fresh Gardens alley.
I like to see gardens that use plants and materials in new ways or old ways with a twist and with ideas for planting combinations I can try at home. I also like to feel that the gardens are real and could be lived with year round. In this respect the TV coverage fails as they don't give us enough detail and focus on heads and concrete rather than plants.
I'm sure that Dan Pearson has done an excellent job of evoking Derbyshire and Chatsworth but I don't want it in my back garden and I'm increasingly off grasses. Nor do I want a travelling shed and tracks. Asking for trouble later on with maintenance and where would I store my tools? Don't want an overgrown ex perfumer's garden with no soil either and whilst I'd love a swimming pond, my retreat would have to have full views of teh garden and not a tiny window..
I want a tapestry of colour and texture and form with fabulously healthy plants so Christ Beardshaw does it again for me and I very much enjoyed Monty's description of its merits last night. Cleve West is another who usually gets it right but he's not there this year unless I've missed something.
Then again, it seems to me we haven't yet seen all 15 main gardens or half the nursery stands and there's still too much repetition with clips from earlier shows. Surely the Beeb realises that gardening addicts watch it all and record it all for later viewing if they work or garden themselves so why are they insulting our intelligence with this poor level of coverage?
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Ighten, isn't it funny how tastes vary. I did not like the Parfumiers garden, but loved C. Beardshaws and completely agree with you about Viking Cruises, one of the worst Show Gardens I have seen.
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I'm not a big fan of statues and ornaments in gardens or to much neatness, so quite a few were discarded for that reason!
Really liked the Chatsworth but more a landscape than a garden in my eyes.
Outright winner for me was A perfumers garden! So seemingly effortless, bet it wasn't tho! But so natural and simply beautiful, the scent I can only imagine!
But it would appear I'm in good company! Monty and Pdoc agree I see!
I liked the bit about the woman who did the garden from dubhai that was a really interesting piece, I loved her garden, would've liked a bit more info on that, she was so lovely and monty seemed to like her! didn't like the mosque she took us to tho, looked a bit too bling for me. and she covered herself up which I always think is a shame.
a nice alternative to the awful coverage on the news of isis etc. her garden at Chelsea was gorgeous, altho saying that she wanted people to see a different side of islam, I don't read Arabic so couldn't understand what was on the stone ! wonder what it said?!
Whilst waiting for the Chelsea coverage this afternoon, I happened across "Monty's Italian Gardens". What a brilliant programme it was. I missed it first time round.
yes i saw that! its great. I have the book. it would be nice if they put the one he did about provence, he used to live there, I think that's why he loved the perfume garden at Chelsea so much,
I loved Tuesday evening's coverage. The designer in a huff because he 'only' got Silver Gilt and Joe also sniffy because the judges clearly didn't agree with him about which were the best gardens.
A note to both of them - if you want to be the person making the decisions get on the judging panel.
It also amused me that they were surprised that there could be a greater point difference between two Gold Medal gardens than between a Gold and a Silver Gilt. It's simple maths and logic. A garden needs to get x points or more to get Gold. One point less and it's only Silver Gilt. If you tried to follow Monty & Joe's logic every garden would get Gold.
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darren, we both roared with laughter at the " silver gilt....................... um " moment.
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Glad you enjoyed your day out. I do agree that 2013's Chelsea was pretty boring but I was also viewing it from a wheelchair which gives a whole different perspective especially when one idiot designer fixed a rail at eye height and blocked the view. Last year was better but samey so I didn't bother this year. I do agree about that corridor effect along Fresh Gardens alley.
I like to see gardens that use plants and materials in new ways or old ways with a twist and with ideas for planting combinations I can try at home. I also like to feel that the gardens are real and could be lived with year round. In this respect the TV coverage fails as they don't give us enough detail and focus on heads and concrete rather than plants.
I'm sure that Dan Pearson has done an excellent job of evoking Derbyshire and Chatsworth but I don't want it in my back garden and I'm increasingly off grasses. Nor do I want a travelling shed and tracks. Asking for trouble later on with maintenance and where would I store my tools? Don't want an overgrown ex perfumer's garden with no soil either and whilst I'd love a swimming pond, my retreat would have to have full views of teh garden and not a tiny window..
I want a tapestry of colour and texture and form with fabulously healthy plants so Christ Beardshaw does it again for me and I very much enjoyed Monty's description of its merits last night. Cleve West is another who usually gets it right but he's not there this year unless I've missed something.
Then again, it seems to me we haven't yet seen all 15 main gardens or half the nursery stands and there's still too much repetition with clips from earlier shows. Surely the Beeb realises that gardening addicts watch it all and record it all for later viewing if they work or garden themselves so why are they insulting our intelligence with this poor level of coverage?
I'd say we usually have a situation where 20% of the gardens get 80% of the coverage.
Not fair on exhibitors and certainly not fair to viewers.
Obelixx, if you have the Red Button on your TV, they are doing 5 Show Gardens , in more detail, each day.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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Ighten, isn't it funny how tastes vary. I did not like the Parfumiers garden, but loved C. Beardshaws and completely agree with you about Viking Cruises, one of the worst Show Gardens I have seen.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
New to gardening, new to Chelsea!
What celebrities? Could have caught that lot by casting a net in waitrose!
I'm not a big fan of statues and ornaments in gardens or to much neatness, so quite a few were discarded for that reason!
Really liked the Chatsworth but more a landscape than a garden in my eyes.
Outright winner for me was A perfumers garden! So seemingly effortless, bet it wasn't tho! But so natural and simply beautiful, the scent I can only imagine!
But it would appear I'm in good company! Monty and Pdoc agree I see!
I liked the bit about the woman who did the garden from dubhai that was a really interesting piece, I loved her garden, would've liked a bit more info on that, she was so lovely and monty seemed to like her! didn't like the mosque she took us to tho, looked a bit too bling for me. and she covered herself up which I always think is a shame.
a nice alternative to the awful coverage on the news of isis etc. her garden at Chelsea was gorgeous, altho saying that she wanted people to see a different side of islam, I don't read Arabic so couldn't understand what was on the stone ! wonder what it said?!
Whilst waiting for the Chelsea coverage this afternoon, I happened across "Monty's Italian Gardens". What a brilliant programme it was. I missed it first time round.
yes i saw that! its great. I have the book. it would be nice if they put the one he did about provence, he used to live there, I think that's why he loved the perfume garden at Chelsea so much,
I loved Tuesday evening's coverage. The designer in a huff because he 'only' got Silver Gilt and Joe also sniffy because the judges clearly didn't agree with him about which were the best gardens.
A note to both of them - if you want to be the person making the decisions get on the judging panel.
It also amused me that they were surprised that there could be a greater point difference between two Gold Medal gardens than between a Gold and a Silver Gilt. It's simple maths and logic. A garden needs to get x points or more to get Gold. One point less and it's only Silver Gilt. If you tried to follow Monty & Joe's logic every garden would get Gold.