1. Read the RHS manual’s before hand and then read them again. Tomes I thought, one was 90 odd pages. “No time“, “not really going to be relevant“. BUT how wrong I was. They were mines of information and preparedness, not entirely infallible but unless you’ve read it/them you don’t know this. The […]
Officially we could have dismantled on Sunday but not one of us was that desperate to slog that one out. Queuing to get back onsite after the show closed was not high on the list of priorities. Home and a hot bath and bed before the final onslaught of work was the order of the […]
Still catching up with the posts about our RHS Tatton garden, admittedly in a fairly random order!
For a first timer there was quite a bit of anxiety around this. From the outset you know precision and meeting your brief are THE things upon which you will win medals, or lose marks. What […]
I read last year that Dan Pearson and his Chelsea team did a dry run of the garden they presented, which must have been quite the feat given the size of the boulders they used. We too are doing a dry run, although on a far less grand or comprehensive scale.
The setting out is […]
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