The show gardens and brilliant displays in the marques do certainly catch your eyes but they wouldn’t any good if the wrong plants were chosen, so let’s have a little look at some of the plants that caught my eye both around the gardens and in the marques. Some a new to me and caught my eye that way, others old friends that it was great to see them being so used around the different gardens. There were so many great plants, it was difficult to keep it to 15 but never less I managed too. I hope you enjoy my 15 as much as I did and I can’t wait for next years show to see what they are offering.
Fab, must get along to one of these shows, drag the boss along. I have some of the parviflora grown from seed this year. 20 odd of them scattered about the place. Which reminds me, must plant the last batch out, they are in a precarious state in 9cm pots. Bad gardener!
It’s well worth it Hampton is a good one, bit more space than Chelsea, still with beautiful plants though. Beautiful aren’t they 😀don’t worry I have a lot of things in pots still too 😉
I complained that your “flower of the week” was costing me too much and now you throw 15 at me all together. I may be able to resist some but not that gladiolus. I prefer the shorter, smaller-flowered ones. ‘Flevo Cool’ has been around a little while and most seem to agree it’s a 2-footer and would be ok in the ground here over winter (like you I have over-subscribed winter accommodation). Maybe I’ll visit Hampton Court next year though I have a fairly low opinion generally of RHS shows.
I am very sorry John 🙁 sadly the Plant of the week is about to return as well in a couple of weeks 😉 agree it does seem to be able to over winter, looking forward to trying them next year. It’s been the first one for a number of years and I did enjoy it I must admit, hoping to try out a few different ones next year as well. What tends to give you the view on the shows, if you don’t mind me asking?
Top picks and great photos to with them – I really enjoyed that, plus now I know the mallow I wanted to buy but forgot to photograph…I am less fond of achillea having had to prep them for Charlie’s garden with their mutitudinous yellowing leaves!
It was beautiful wasn’t, quite unusual at the same time, I am trying to see if I have a space to shoe horn it in, well border fork it it more like 😉 lol that was a fun game, I bet the smell got umm rather overpowering after a few too
I now have a general antipathy to the RHS, having not renewed my membership a few years ago. Simply put, the RHS should lead. It does not. It pursues commercial opportunities at the expense of British horticulture (witness its promotion of imported bouquets by Interflora a few years ago – that made my mind up to stop supporting the aberration). The RHS whimpers about chemicals and so many other things that matter. It is not so much shows which I don’t like but the RHS which takes something and warps it into some weird exemplification of whatever the RHS thinks it should be. It could educate. It does not. It could promote. It does not (except itself). How many people on the RHS committees have a garden that isn’t measured in acres?
Turn your attention to Hampton Court for a minute. There were the usual corporate gardens. But which garden has got the most praise from real people on social media? Not a corporate. Rather a sort of crowd-funded, Charlie Bloom rocks, I think.
I think that’s fair enough, I feel it’s the downside of becoming so big, seen the other very large charities do the same thing without really thinking how the corporate pound will effect them in a negative way as well, sometimes even worse. Sadly I have tales I can’t put in writing of some terrible events happened to a garden of international importance though the bosses,
Agree with Hampton Court best gardens I felt where the smaller ones, Charlie’s I hope has set in place a new way of doing things 😀
Fab, must get along to one of these shows, drag the boss along. I have some of the parviflora grown from seed this year. 20 odd of them scattered about the place. Which reminds me, must plant the last batch out, they are in a precarious state in 9cm pots. Bad gardener!
It’s well worth it Hampton is a good one, bit more space than Chelsea, still with beautiful plants though. Beautiful aren’t they 😀don’t worry I have a lot of things in pots still too 😉
Great selection! Love them all. Thanks for sharing 🙂
I complained that your “flower of the week” was costing me too much and now you throw 15 at me all together. I may be able to resist some but not that gladiolus. I prefer the shorter, smaller-flowered ones. ‘Flevo Cool’ has been around a little while and most seem to agree it’s a 2-footer and would be ok in the ground here over winter (like you I have over-subscribed winter accommodation). Maybe I’ll visit Hampton Court next year though I have a fairly low opinion generally of RHS shows.
I am very sorry John 🙁 sadly the Plant of the week is about to return as well in a couple of weeks 😉 agree it does seem to be able to over winter, looking forward to trying them next year. It’s been the first one for a number of years and I did enjoy it I must admit, hoping to try out a few different ones next year as well. What tends to give you the view on the shows, if you don’t mind me asking?
Top picks and great photos to with them – I really enjoyed that, plus now I know the mallow I wanted to buy but forgot to photograph…I am less fond of achillea having had to prep them for Charlie’s garden with their mutitudinous yellowing leaves!
It was beautiful wasn’t, quite unusual at the same time, I am trying to see if I have a space to shoe horn it in, well border fork it it more like 😉 lol that was a fun game, I bet the smell got umm rather overpowering after a few too
I now have a general antipathy to the RHS, having not renewed my membership a few years ago. Simply put, the RHS should lead. It does not. It pursues commercial opportunities at the expense of British horticulture (witness its promotion of imported bouquets by Interflora a few years ago – that made my mind up to stop supporting the aberration). The RHS whimpers about chemicals and so many other things that matter. It is not so much shows which I don’t like but the RHS which takes something and warps it into some weird exemplification of whatever the RHS thinks it should be. It could educate. It does not. It could promote. It does not (except itself). How many people on the RHS committees have a garden that isn’t measured in acres?
Turn your attention to Hampton Court for a minute. There were the usual corporate gardens. But which garden has got the most praise from real people on social media? Not a corporate. Rather a sort of crowd-funded, Charlie Bloom rocks, I think.
The RHS is about SHOW. Not about GARDENING.
May I step off my soap box now?
I think that’s fair enough, I feel it’s the downside of becoming so big, seen the other very large charities do the same thing without really thinking how the corporate pound will effect them in a negative way as well, sometimes even worse. Sadly I have tales I can’t put in writing of some terrible events happened to a garden of international importance though the bosses,
Agree with Hampton Court best gardens I felt where the smaller ones, Charlie’s I hope has set in place a new way of doing things 😀