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The Chelsea Flower Show seems to come round quicker every year. The gardens were all amazing and I am sure, if you went or watched the coverage on TV you would have picked a favourite by now.
Here are a few special moments for me, (Apart from meeting Sir Michael Caine).
Fellow writer Toby Buckland
A very green loo
The APCO garden
Nurseryman Patrick Fairweather…
The Brewin Dolphin garden by Cleve West has won gold and best-in-show at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Cleve’s Main Avenue masterpiece highlighted the popularity of topiary, and aimed to showcase its potential use in gardens of all sizes.
TV gardener Joe Swift’s Homebase Teenage Cancer Trust plot – his first Chelsea attempt, won RHS gold, too.
Joe said he “couldn’t have wished…
Hillier, the nursery with 66 consecutive gold medals to its name, plans to fly the flag for the sport of fencing at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show.
The grower will stage a garden in the Great Pavilion to celebrate the sport shortly before the 2012 London Olympics gets underway.
Hillier’s exhibit is also a tribute to the Queen who is the patron…
Darmuid Gavin has said he would be “mad” to do the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2012 – but he may just be back.
The ITV This Morning gardener won his first gold medal at the Chelsea in May, 16 years after his initial attempt.
Diarmuid said: “I need to recover. I’ve no problem lying about whether I’m doing Chelsea or not.…
Rebel gardeners are planning to stage a major alternative to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2012.
The Chelsea Fringe (19 May to 9 June) will be a London-wide festival of flowers, urban gardening, community allotments and parks – timed to coincide with the famous RHS event (22-26 May).
The new festival will see floral boats on the Thames and lorries loaded…
It is a company that claims: “You can do it if you B&Q it”.
But like the best-planned DIY projects, B&Q’s Chelsea Flower Show garden has run into a few technical difficulties.
Plans for the £300,000 vertical allotment, a tower rising 30ft (9m) high (right), have been tweaked in the run up to the May show.
The garden is to sit in front…
He is known for pushing the boundaries of garden design and testing the patience of Chelsea Flower Show organiser the Royal Horticultural Society.
So eyebrows were raised when celebrity designer Diarmuid Gavin unveiled plans to make his Chelsea comeback with a garden in a sci-fi style pod, hoisted in the air above the showground, using a crane.
Speaking at the RHS London…
The majority of nurseries showing plants at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show still grow them in peat.
Show organiser the Royal Horticultural Society tried to set an example to ordinary gardeners by forcing Chelsea growers to use ‘green’ alternatives to peat for staging and mulching.
But when it comes to the compost plants are grown in, calls to cut peat use have…
