Ooh, Chicky - lovely photos! So nice to see it in the sunshine...
I was intrigued by the Beauty of Mathematics garden (by Nick Bailey). My OH was a maths teacher and used the wonderful green cauliflower, Romanesco, to illustrate Fibonacci spirals.
Diarmuid Gavin's "British Eccentrics" certainly raised a smile... completely bonkers of course, though the planting was great, with bold colours confidently put together:
Where next? I liked the "sparse" gardens more than some did, I think. Hugo Bugg's "Royal Bank of Canada" garden (featuring plants from Jordan, many grown from seed) was interesting.
and the L'Occitane Provencal garden designed by James Basson had some wonderful features, particularly the naturalistic paths, I thought.
I agree with Chicky about Jo Thompson's Chelsea Barracks garden - it had a LAWN!! and looked like a "normal" garden (albeit a perfect one).
- and about the wonderful, sumptuous planting in the Smart Garden (Hay Joung Hwang).
as well as Chris Beardshaw's lovely restful Great Ormond Street garden.
I could post more, if anyone is interested...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
When we were growing up, we were a big tennis waching family ....can't count the number of times we all slept on the pavement to get tickets for the middle Saturday at Wimbledon ....my Mum was the ringleader. I always go to Chelsea with my sisters .....and this year we all agreed that leaving conjured up that same "wimbledon" feeling ......we want to do it all again, but know we have to wait another year.
Loving Chris's garden. I don't watch it on TV so I'm just picking up wee snippets on here and I knew I loved the garden with the wee man in it....I just didn't know whose it was.
Time for a few more, I think. (It was Obelixx who confessed to having several hundred Chelsea photos... we need a peek, I think!)
Watahan East & West garden was interesting (it had at least two designers - Watahan Design Lab is given the credit). There were cloud-pruned shrubs and peaceful reflective water (very oriental) plus bright contrasting planting.
I hope others have photos of the 3 or 4 other large gardens I've not covered properly. My Cloudy Bay photos are all crooked apart from this one, which isn't representative (I just liked the planting);
and I don't have anything from the Garden of Mindful Living, Hartley Botanic or Greening Grey Britain.
However, here are some of the artisan gardens:
"Together We Can" garden - the water feature played percussion; that "Florida mauve" is definitely not my colour...
Mekong garden with floating flower beds. Interesting.
Garden Bed. Loved that pot!
Meningitis Now. People's Choice winner among the artisan gardens.
"Suffolk Retreat" had some pretty planting, I thought.
Couldn't get far enough away to photograph the whole of the Garage Garden, but this is the roof.
Fresh gardens & other stuff later!
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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Ooh, Chicky - lovely photos! So nice to see it in the sunshine...
I was intrigued by the Beauty of Mathematics garden (by Nick Bailey). My OH was a maths teacher and used the wonderful green cauliflower, Romanesco, to illustrate Fibonacci spirals.
Diarmuid Gavin's "British Eccentrics" certainly raised a smile... completely bonkers of course, though the planting was great, with bold colours confidently put together:
Where next? I liked the "sparse" gardens more than some did, I think. Hugo Bugg's "Royal Bank of Canada" garden (featuring plants from Jordan, many grown from seed) was interesting.
and the L'Occitane Provencal garden designed by James Basson had some wonderful features, particularly the naturalistic paths, I thought.
I agree with Chicky about Jo Thompson's Chelsea Barracks garden - it had a LAWN!! and looked like a "normal" garden (albeit a perfect one).
- and about the wonderful, sumptuous planting in the Smart Garden (Hay Joung Hwang).
as well as Chris Beardshaw's lovely restful Great Ormond Street garden.
I could post more, if anyone is interested...
Ooo - I'm interested Liri
When we were growing up, we were a big tennis waching family ....can't count the number of times we all slept on the pavement to get tickets for the middle Saturday at Wimbledon ....my Mum was the ringleader
. I always go to Chelsea with my sisters .....and this year we all agreed that leaving conjured up that same "wimbledon" feeling ......we want to do it all again, but know we have to wait another year.
Mum would have loved it too
Thanks Chicky
Lovely memories of your Mum.
Waiting another year, hmmm... thought this year's visit might be a one-off, now I'm not so sure!
More photos tomorrow. Bit sleepy now...
More Chelsea please
I'm enjoying taking time to look at the plant combinations.
Wonderful photos Liri and chicky
so glad the pinch and zoom is working again.
The modern apothecary is one of my favourites as I love the blue's and purples against the vivid greens.
Looking forward to seeing more of your day at Chelsea. (Didn't someone say they had hundreds of photos)
Loving Chris's garden. I don't watch it on TV so I'm just picking up wee snippets on here and I knew I loved the garden with the wee man in it....I just didn't know whose it was.
Keep them coming everyone.
Time for a few more, I think. (It was Obelixx who confessed to having several hundred Chelsea photos... we need a peek, I think!)
Watahan East & West garden was interesting (it had at least two designers - Watahan Design Lab is given the credit). There were cloud-pruned shrubs and peaceful reflective water (very oriental) plus bright contrasting planting.
I hope others have photos of the 3 or 4 other large gardens I've not covered properly. My Cloudy Bay photos are all crooked apart from this one, which isn't representative (I just liked the planting);
and I don't have anything from the Garden of Mindful Living, Hartley Botanic or Greening Grey Britain.
However, here are some of the artisan gardens:
"Together We Can" garden - the water feature played percussion; that "Florida mauve" is definitely not my colour...
Mekong garden with floating flower beds. Interesting.
Garden Bed. Loved that pot!
Meningitis Now. People's Choice winner among the artisan gardens.
"Suffolk Retreat" had some pretty planting, I thought.
Couldn't get far enough away to photograph the whole of the Garage Garden, but this is the roof.
Fresh gardens & other stuff later!
Hello Liri. I have made a start. Too many to load here so I've begun to make albums on Photobucket sp anyone who wishes to can peek at leisure.
Here's the first - small gardens, both artisan and fresh:-
http://s211.photobucket.com/user/Obelixx_be/library/160525%20Chelsea%20-%20small%20gardens?sort=2&page=1
I really wanted to take the whole Japanese style garage for the mini home with me - but not the mini itself.
What, not a mini fan?? My son has 2 in his garage, both in bits...
Great photos, thanks Obelixx