Amazing! Thanks so much for sharing! I hope to get to Chelsea someday. It looks like a garden photographer's dream!
Do you really want more?!?!?! I do have more - more gardens and also shots of sundries if you like....statues, alan titchmarsh and so on....let me know.
I love that colourful display of peppers from Jersey - Ian would have been wanting to take them all home with him if he's been there. The stream garden is gorgeous and would have been my favourite too as it's the kind of garden you could see yourself sitting in with a good book on a sunny afternoon. Your photographs are great EJ and I'd love to have been there with your to smell those strawberries and all that lavender. I do like the looks of the James May plasticine garden, and appreciate the work that must have gone into it, but it's just not what I would have expected to see at Chelsea somehow. Strange how it won the Peoples choice award when there were so many 'real' and beautiful gardens to pick from. Right I'm ready for the next batch please.
Thank you so much for sharing your pics. Truly a feast for the eyes. The stream garden would be my favorite also. It gives a feeling of serenity and relaxation just to look at it.
I'm glad you have all enjoyed your tour of Chelsea with me. Here comes the final batch, a mixture of gardens, flowers and 'others' ! This garden was called Wild and Wonderful, and it was! Wild and Wonderful again. Another Wild and Wonderful. A real lush cottage feel, although some of the plants might be considered weeds. White courtyard garden. All the flowers were white. It glowed! The white garden The white garden. It would be lovely to have a large enough garden to put an area over to just one colour of flower or foliage. A lovely idea. What about this for a wendy house for the kids. Worth more than some real houses!! Lots of different garden statues available. I have to say, for me personally, the ones of people and children I find a little creepy. These silk garden umbrellas were devine, and didn't come cheap. You wouldn't want to leave them out in the rain!! This was a kitchen garden with a work surface and outdoor sink. The garden walls were planted with salad plants. In fact, the entire garden was edible. Another one from the kitchen garden. I will have to keep a look out for old collanders in the charity shops to use as planters! The potters garden The potters garden again. It was a group of, I think 4 ladies buidling this garden. One made the pots. This is Peter Seabrook, a television gardener here in the UK. He is quite old school, very much into chemcials and using peat. I adore glass, and this glass dandelion artwork was amazing. The lady was selling individual stems at £50 a time. I don't know if I would have gotten one home in one piece! Joe Swift, another tele gardener from Gardeners World. Love this elf. I have seen work by this artist before and it is all so cheeky. Gorgeous bank of delphiniums. Slug paradise. How about a life size deer statue for the garden?? Or what about some dancing skeletons? A gorgeous cottage courtyard garden. More from that cottage garden. Rather French I felt. A chelsea pensioner checking out the goodies. And finally, Alan Titchmarsh, legendary garden tele presenter and author. Hope you enjoy these.
Well, I sure did enjoy this last batch, EJ. It was a nice touch taking fotos of the notables. As I said before, it if fun to see all those gardens again that I saw on the telly...but from YOUR perspective. It was just delightful. Thank you again for your fotos and all the 'leg work'. There are lots of folks that could not get the Chelsea show on their tellies, and this was a great way for them to get a feel of what it was like there.
Hey that 'wild and wonderful' garden is planted up alot like mine!! Now, if anyone asks, I can say I thought of the idea first. Not sure about having dancing skeletons somehow but I do have a life sized 'Lady of the Lake' here that looks the spitting image of my daughter. The all white garden is really lovely as white flowers are a real favourite of mine. I like the idea of a totally edible garden. I think if I tried it here it would be slugs and snails doing the feasting though not me. I have a feeling that Peter Seabrook and I would end up having a rather heated discussion somehow as I don't use any chemicals or peat - could be interesting to overhear the conversation we'd have though wouldn't it? EJ thanks for the great photographs. I thoroughly enjoyed my trip to Chelsea with you and I didn't even have sore feet after seeing all those wonderful gardens and plants.
Thank you very much for that last batch of photos. Weird, wonderful, delightful and a bit of celebrity. What more could one ask for?
