To round off this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, I thought I’d share a few final ‘happy snaps’ of plantings that brought a particularly big smile to my face, as I dreamily wandered around the Royal Hospital grounds. Continue reading
Category: Chelsea 2016
Nick Bailey: The Winton Beauty of Mathematics Garden, Chelsea 2016
A dry climate is something Australians are more than familiar with, and whilst London has a lower annual rainfall than either Sydney or Melbourne (yes, really!), we don’t exactly associate it with England. Continue reading
Cleve West: The M&G Garden, Chelsea 2016
Cleve West’s gold medal-winning “M&G” garden is another that just fills me with joy and blows me away with its skill. The second I opened an image of it from Continue reading
Andy Sturgeon: Best Show Garden, Chelsea 2016
‘May the best man win.’ And so he did, at least in my book. It’s just been announced that Andy Sturgeon has been awarded Best Show Garden, 2016 for his ‘The Telegraph Garden’. Continue reading
Chelsea Flower Show 2016: Main show gardens
Gosh, what a wonder the Chelsea Flower Show is. And gosh, did I feel lucky to be there today. There is just so much inspiration, so much new thinking, so many details to take in…it’s going to take my brain some weeks to process it all. Continue reading