And from me Hosta ........ thought the plants were beautiful and your friend gave a charming interview. It really gave an insight into what it's like to show there.
As for the show gardens ....... love 'em or loathe 'em, I think it's like a lot of design ....... the prize winners, show stoppers etc aren't what we'd choose for ourselves ........... I mean, which one of us would wear a Vivienne Westwood or John Galliano catwalk creation ... but the clothes they show on those models influence the clothes in the High Street, whether it's M&S, Debenhams or wherever ... the colours, patterns and shapes are all influenced by what goes on at the fashion shows.
It's the same for garden design ... the influences are 'watered down', but they are there in the garden centres and nurseries all over the country ... and if their displays weren't always looking new and interesting the horticultural industry would soon be in decline. Very few of us really want the same old same old every year.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
" Very few of us really want the same old same old every year. "
I'm sure I've seen the same old same old Blue lobelia, white alyssum red salvia combo every year since I was old enough to notice.
As Dove says, it's like comparing haute couture with high street fashion.
Maybe someone will use one block of stone as a focal point / seat in their own garden. It's not a quarry ,but it's perfectly doable in our own gardens.
I'd love that "pavillion" in The Canada garden with copper and scorched larch. It'd be fantastic down by my lake.
I am often seen in the High Street in a Vivienne Westwood number and often attract very favourable comments ! [ Can you imagine that actually being true, in Sheffield ]
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
That should be the next project ... I'm looking forward to seeing it Hosta ......... you could put guests up there on warm nights and bring our morning coffee down the hill through the dew-soaked buttercups in your diaphanous negligee
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Punkdoc ... I'd wear Vivienne Westwood every day if I could afford it ... I think she's one of the very few designers whose clothes can be worn by people of any size or shape (with appropriate takings in and lettings out of seams etc). It's one of the advantages of being an artist, even if your not famous ... people expect you to do the unusual ......... as it is I spend most of my time in jeans and tee shirts ... but today I'm in a turquoise kaftan and tmatching sandals with magenta toenails.
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Hosta please pass on my congratulations as well. I knew nothing about the type of Primula they grow and now want to find out more.
I am sure I can find a space for some, somewhere.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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And from me Hosta ........ thought the plants were beautiful and your friend gave a charming interview.
It really gave an insight into what it's like to show there.
As for the show gardens ....... love 'em or loathe 'em, I think it's like a lot of design ....... the prize winners, show stoppers etc aren't what we'd choose for ourselves ........... I mean, which one of us would wear a Vivienne Westwood or John Galliano catwalk creation ... but the clothes they show on those models influence the clothes in the High Street, whether it's M&S, Debenhams or wherever ... the colours, patterns and shapes are all influenced by what goes on at the fashion shows.
It's the same for garden design ... the influences are 'watered down', but they are there in the garden centres and nurseries all over the country ... and if their displays weren't always looking new and interesting the horticultural industry would soon be in decline. Very few of us really want the same old same old every year.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
" Very few of us really want the same old same old every year. "
I'm sure I've seen the same old same old Blue lobelia, white alyssum red salvia combo every year since I was old enough to notice.
As Dove says, it's like comparing haute couture with high street fashion.
Maybe someone will use one block of stone as a focal point / seat in their own garden. It's not a quarry ,but it's perfectly doable in our own gardens.
I'd love that "pavillion" in The Canada garden with copper and scorched larch. It'd be fantastic down by my lake.
Good point Dove and Hosta
Speak for yourself Dove.
I am often seen in the High Street in a Vivienne Westwood number and often attract very favourable comments ! [ Can you imagine that actually being true, in Sheffield ]
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
That should be the next project ... I'm looking forward to seeing it Hosta ......... you could put guests up there on warm nights and bring our morning coffee down the hill through the dew-soaked buttercups in your diaphanous negligee
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Punkdoc ... I'd wear Vivienne Westwood every day if I could afford it ... I think she's one of the very few designers whose clothes can be worn by people of any size or shape (with appropriate takings in and lettings out of seams etc). It's one of the advantages of being an artist, even if your not famous ... people expect you to do the unusual ......... as it is I spend most of my time in jeans and tee shirts ... but today I'm in a turquoise kaftan and tmatching sandals with magenta toenails.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
".. but today I'm in a turquoise kaftan and tmatching sandals with magenta toenails.
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OMG....... ME TOO!!!
Well one of us will just have to change Hosta
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Right, I'm off to dig out my cerise mankini.