OK, I need some help! Could you folks please let me know if I'm bonkers and hearing things? I've just watched the second episode of Chelsea and starting on the third and I've had to turn the volume down and subtitles on as the sound man appears to have the volume up on background noise so all I can hear is the chatter of a million invisible people! Sounds like a hive of angry insects! I can only just hear the presenters over it and have had to take headache pills as trying to filter the noise has given me a splitting headache! Is this just me?
New to gardening and new to watching the Chelsea show on TV. Is it just me or is it always a bit pretentious? Don't get me wrong, I understand it's a massive feat to achieve what they do. The dedication, creativity etc etc. But to me, it seems there is more talking about the people growing the plants and their life story that actually discussing the plants. I was so bored in a lot of the interviews and fast forwarded to the plant information. Especially Grayson Perry. I don't want to know about his/her life story, I just want to know about the plants. There have been a few interesting 3 minutes of useful information - e.g. hepaticas and streptocarpus. James Wong's summary of Asian gardens was very good. But it's all contrived and boring. I am not inspired or moved by any of it. I have been more impressed and inspired in my local Arboretum or the phenomenal medicinal garden at my workplace - there I actually learn something, it's natural and beautiful. Maybe I am missing something? They have put the plants through a lot of stress too, it's cruel.
Think your probably right Hosta! I'm ok with it though may try watching on different computer I have to agree with wakeshine though, do we really want to hear how impressed Sol Cambel is with AstroTurf?!? I don't do celebrities....don't know who they are as I don't read trash or watch TV, so watching them get a free day out seeing gardens they know nothing about sticks in the throat a little.
What little I've seen of gardens looks interesting, think my conclusion could be that Chelsea looks lovely but you have to be there as the coverage is a bit misdirected and aimed at mass appeal. Why can't they just make the show for people that love gardens? We don't have gardeners asked what they think of the football during half time! So why do bits of inane chat have to be put in just cuz its a celebrities opinion? Think we would rather hear about the plants!
I'm loving this Chelsea thread. I still haven't watched a minute of it but I suspect that if I were to turn on iPlayer I'd see some unstylish randomer wandering over Exmoor. When I was in a shop somewhere recently I saw a girl DJ (don't know her name) being talked to and all I could hear was the hubbub of voices. I actually thought there was a radio on somewhere else in the shop. I'm with you WW.
Yes the hepatica guy said the plants were put through a lot of stress to get them to flower in this season rather than February and he said he wouldn't come to Chelsea again for this reason. He had to keep putting them in and out of fridges. I heard a lot of the exhibitors saying they put their plants through stress for the show!! They have taken trees out of the ground. Haha. Why don't they just have 4 Chelsea shows - Chelsea winter, spring, summer and autumn? And just show the plants that grow at this time naturally. I guess it''s the old debate of whether plants suffer from cruelty lol. I know some people who says bonsai trees are cruelty as you're restricting the root growth. I'm just saying - it's one argument. The Chelsea TV programme is crap anyway but just saying.
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No. Hilliers isn't on the voting list. Only the outside large gardens. Pity.
I agree with Esspee, far too many interviews with z list celebs who know nothing about gardening.
Pompous , pretentious, total affectation and badly dressed. Oh , and Grayson Perry too.
OK, I need some help! Could you folks please let me know if I'm bonkers and hearing things? I've just watched the second episode of Chelsea and starting on the third and I've had to turn the volume down and subtitles on as the sound man appears to have the volume up on background noise so all I can hear is the chatter of a million invisible people! Sounds like a hive of angry insects! I can only just hear the presenters over it and have had to take headache pills as trying to filter the noise has given me a splitting headache! Is this just me?
erm, I've not noticed that WW.
Maybe it is??
New to gardening and new to watching the Chelsea show on TV. Is it just me or is it always a bit pretentious? Don't get me wrong, I understand it's a massive feat to achieve what they do. The dedication, creativity etc etc. But to me, it seems there is more talking about the people growing the plants and their life story that actually discussing the plants. I was so bored in a lot of the interviews and fast forwarded to the plant information. Especially Grayson Perry. I don't want to know about his/her life story, I just want to know about the plants. There have been a few interesting 3 minutes of useful information - e.g. hepaticas and streptocarpus. James Wong's summary of Asian gardens was very good. But it's all contrived and boring. I am not inspired or moved by any of it. I have been more impressed and inspired in my local Arboretum or the phenomenal medicinal garden at my workplace - there I actually learn something, it's natural and beautiful. Maybe I am missing something? They have put the plants through a lot of stress too, it's cruel.
wakeshine, I was totally with you until the last sentence: " cruel" really?? I mean , really?
Think your probably right Hosta!
I'm ok with it though 
may try watching on different computer 
I have to agree with wakeshine though, do we really want to hear how impressed Sol Cambel is with AstroTurf?!? 
I don't do celebrities....don't know who they are as I don't read trash or watch TV, so watching them get a free day out seeing gardens they know nothing about sticks in the throat a little.
What little I've seen of gardens looks interesting, think my conclusion could be that Chelsea looks lovely but you have to be there as the coverage is a bit misdirected and aimed at mass appeal. Why can't they just make the show for people that love gardens? We don't have gardeners asked what they think of the football during half time! So why do bits of inane chat have to be put in just cuz its a celebrities opinion? Think we would rather hear about the plants!
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I'm loving this Chelsea thread. I still haven't watched a minute of it but I suspect that if I were to turn on iPlayer I'd see some unstylish randomer wandering over Exmoor. When I was in a shop somewhere recently I saw a girl DJ (don't know her name) being talked to and all I could hear was the hubbub of voices. I actually thought there was a radio on somewhere else in the shop. I'm with you WW.
Plantpauper, had to stop watching til the tablets work!
Yes the hepatica guy said the plants were put through a lot of stress to get them to flower in this season rather than February and he said he wouldn't come to Chelsea again for this reason. He had to keep putting them in and out of fridges. I heard a lot of the exhibitors saying they put their plants through stress for the show!! They have taken trees out of the ground. Haha. Why don't they just have 4 Chelsea shows - Chelsea winter, spring, summer and autumn? And just show the plants that grow at this time naturally. I guess it''s the old debate of whether plants suffer from cruelty lol. I know some people who says bonsai trees are cruelty as you're restricting the root growth. I'm just saying - it's one argument. The Chelsea TV programme is crap anyway but just saying.