Chelsea Flower Show

Chelsea Flower Show this week, and I thought it merited a look around... I was last here a couple of years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it... This year I was looking forward to taking some pictures.. Chelsea seemed much more sombre this year. the gardens were less colourful, and there seemed a great deal of concrete around.. This was my favourite shot of the day and the one really good splash of colour... The sun was very bright and harsh.. so that's todays excuse for poor photography!




By far the largest crowds were for James May's plasticine garden. Everything in the garden from the ladybirds, to the potatoes, to the daisies, the poppies around the memoria (and come to think of it the memorial), the water feature and even some very poorly looking Koi Carp was made of plasticine.. the perfume around this area was NOT of sweet peas!! Apparantly James May got the idea leaving the pub one night (go figure!) and decided that instead of lazing about in front of computers the youth of today should all make a flower... and you know it looked great... No doubt there will be a TV documentary about it... you know what? I'll probably be watching!





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Best in Show and gold medal winner was the Daily Telegraph Garden.. I didn't think it was a patch on the Daily Telegraph garden that I saw here two years ago, but then we are living through tough times and Chelsea seemed to redlect that this year... in the gardens at least. The shops there seemed to be selling the usual expensive tat



This was the Cancer research garden... not sure how this garden helps research cancer , but I am ready to be enlightened!!



Does anyone realise that there are thistles growing in the garden...



Oh yes.. they've been spotted by the weed police . . . . .




The Eden Project garden was made by homeless people and people from prison... I thnkmaybe it shows!