A great spectacle as ever from the RHS and the BBC. Chelsea flower show seems to be being taken over by the media and their coverage, gardens are no longer for the paying public but more for the camera and of the course the VIP and celebrity who now frequent the show throughout the week….
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Was the Chelsea Centenary a bit passe?
There were rumbles on the show ground on Tuesday. Several trade stands, nurseries and designer folk muttering that it was all ‘a bit old hat’, ‘seen it all before‘, ‘too safe‘, ‘nothing new under the sun‘. I will admit I wasn’t as wowed as I had been last year, and there seemed to be rather a…
Continue Readingit’s Chelsea Week
I’ve said this to a few non-horti friends and they look blankly at me as if I am peaking another language, which in their world I probably am. Chelsea week is the pinnacle of many many months of hard work from a select number of designers and their wider, very devoted ‘teams’. The RHS start…
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