Anyone watching ?
Planning to watch ?
Planning to visit ?
I always enjoy the show and would like to go one year. Not having a garden (not practical in a penthouse apartment decorated in an Austin Powers fashion) I enjoy vicariously through the medium of telly.
Seriously though, there are some stunning gardens and planting.
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Baz posted:I was going to watch tonight ....I usually do ....but RL got in the way
But will probably download it from Iplayer
I often watch missed programmes on iPlayer. 
velvet donkey posted:It's a fabulous event that only reinforces how grim it is the North.
Next month Royal Ascot. Then Cowes. Then Glorious Goodwood.
I loves the North Velvet.
*looks for next show*
Love the Chelsea Flower Show - only managed to watch a bit.
Would love to visit one day
Have become quite a keen gardener recently when previously I had no interest.
Saint posted:Love the Chelsea Flower Show - only managed to watch a bit.
Would love to visit one day
Have become quite a keen gardener recently when previously I had no interest.
If and when I move into a house with a garden I will turn my hand to a spot of gardening.
I find quite therapeutic and rewarding
Agree Velvy - our front garden is awful - dusty and stony
Back garden is lush n dark
We know where the builder threw stuff 
Get in some good topsoil and dig in a bit of natural fertiliser.
There is a chap near men giving away his topsoil after some building work.
It's just started on BBC Two.
velvet donkey posted:Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
Get in some good topsoil and dig in a bit of natural fertiliser.
There is a chap near men giving away his topsoil after some building work.
I dunno how many tons I put into a new build bungalow 10 years back. Terraced it with sleepers and water feature and plants. It was my crowning glory when I look back at the photos.
Any digital photos Velvet?
That block was the strangest thing I have seen from Chelsea yet!
I really fancied Rachel De Thame when she first came on the gardening scene. Ex model of course!
Gemma Rhodes got her boobage out at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2008 
But not her flower - see what I did . . . (never mind)
Saint posted:Gemma Rhodes got her boobage out at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2008
But not her flower - see what I did . . . (never mind)
"Model Gemma Rhodes poses after having her body painted colours to match the flowers in 'The Quilted Velvet Garden' on May 19, 2008 in London, England. The Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show 2008 opened to press today and runs to May 23, 2008".
Link (containing boobage): http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/e...o-picture-id81153088
That is just brilliant, three guys who are direct descendants of the original founders of the rhododendron society all at Chelsea, all still in the business.
Baz posted:I love rhododendrons
That was a great spread to Monty's right.
What's your least loved plant Baz?
Mine is probably the lilly. Smell like cats pee.
Baz posted:I like that stonework
I like anything that looks like dry stone walling.
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
What's your least loved plant Baz?
Mine is probably the lilly. Smell like cats pee.
Lol..I like lillies EC ....although those big ones that smell very strongly give me a headache . Not sure about my least loved plant but I guess it's anything that is straggly
velvet donkey posted:Shows you what money can buy some of those stunners.
Definitely, it must cost thousands to stage some of these gardens. But if I was monied up, I would have a lovely designed (to my spec) garden and multiple water features.
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:velvet donkey posted:Shows you what money can buy some of those stunners.
Definitely, it must cost thousands to stage some of these gardens. But if I was monied up, I would have a lovely designed (to my spec) garden and multiple water features.
Same here
That's that then. 
Until next time. 
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