Chelsea Flower Show

Fleur20

I love Nisha Kitona. Her recipes are down to earth authentic and easy. I have several of her books. I use them regularly. But the Chelsea Flower Show is about flowers and gardens. I know we are all about sustainability etc but please!! We have so many cookery programmes 52 weeks of the year..
Instead of all the add ons... can we not just look at the individual plants.. close up.. with a bit of a story.. a bit of detail.. preferably with someone with a bit of knowledge and experience... not a 'celebrity' cos we have them 52 weeks of the year as well...
Rant over.
I thank you.

I’m very tempted to try her gin and tonic salmon though. 😂

Callistemon21

^Chelsea and such shows, for me, represent all that is wrong with this world, I feel it deeply^

Defrestation and lack of habitat, the Ganges filled with plastic, the Great Pacific garbage patch three times the size of France, turtles eating plastic bags being rescued only to return in the same plight, represents all that is wrong with this world.

Chelse, with its plants, trees, rewilding projects , might seem to be anathema to you Fleurpepper but to many it's an encouragement with its more informal gardens, rewilding, oases of peace and its contributions to charity.

You may be lucky to live in the mountains with beautiful walks amongst wildflower meadows, but not everyone is lucky. If they can be inspired to plant a suburban garden, even window boxes, then that has to be a good thing.

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I love Nisha Kitona. Her recipes are down to earth authentic and easy. I have several of her books. I use them regularly. But the Chelsea Flower Show is about flowers and gardens. I know we are all about sustainability etc but please!! We have so many cookery programmes 52 weeks of the year..
Instead of all the add ons... can we not just look at the individual plants.. close up.. with a bit of a story.. a bit of detail.. preferably with someone with a bit of knowledge and experience... not a 'celebrity' cos we have them 52 weeks of the year as well...
Rant over.
I thank you.

Vanillasky

I've been reading an article in Gardens whilst at the hairdressers. One of the garden designers used to be in haute couture fashion and explained how he transferred his skills from one passion to the other in terms of colours, textures and style.
Maybe not to everyone's taste, but experimenting in every area is to be enjoyed.

Monty Don was a jeweller, I think 🙂

Defrestation
Deforestation

My dibber isn't dibbing.

I've been reading an article in Gardens whilst at the hairdressers. One of the garden designers used to be in haute couture fashion and explained how he transferred his skills from one passion to the other in terms of colours, textures and style.
Maybe not to everyone's taste, but experimenting in every area is to be enjoyed.

Oreo

HannahLoisLuke

Almost forgot, weeds, or wildflowers are the flavour of the month this year, along with rubble and junk.

😂 Some of our neighbours are into that look, one has tastefully added an old fridge too.

Oreo 😂

I hope the wildflowers cover it up soon!

Chelsea and such shows, for me, represent all that is wrong with this world, I feel it deeply

Defrestation and lack of habitat, the Ganges filled with plastic, the Great Pacific garbage patch three times the size of France, turtles eating plastic bags being rescued only to return in the same plight, represents all that is wrong with this world.

Chelse, with its plants, trees, rewilding projects , might seem to be anathema to you Fleurpepper but to many it's an encouragement with its more informal gardens, rewilding, oases of peace and its contributions to charity.

You may be lucky to live in the mountains with beautiful walks amongst wildflower meadows, but not everyone is lucky. If they can be inspired to plant a suburban garden, even window boxes, then that has to be a good thing.

I’ve been several times and have always liked the ‘artisan’ gardens - especially those with the sort of small, narrow plot common with so many older urban houses - rather more than any of the show gardens.

For my money, Hampton Court is preferable - vastly more space, so feeling far less crowded, and very likely quite a bit warmer. And much the same sort of things to see, with possibly more of them.

HannahLoisLuke

Almost forgot, weeds, or wildflowers are the flavour of the month this year, along with rubble and junk.

😂 Some of our neighbours are into that look, one has tastefully added an old fridge too.

I love Chelsea, I only have a small yard with a border and a few pots but I can always dream!

Re wilding is all very well but you still have to work on it or it will get out of had.
Reminds me of the gardener I his pristine garden. . Along comes a fellow who says ain’t it wonderful what God can do in a garden?”
He replied “ well, he weren’t doing so well till I came along.”

We've many old buildings, vines, big trees on our grounds. Succeeding at something messy, like this (from the show) without any attempt.

I love Sarah Price’s Nurture Landscapes. Garden. A well deserved Gold.

I’m now able to grow irises in my new garden. They hated the high alkaline soil in my old one. I’ve inherited Kent Pride and they’re looking great alongside the alliums I planted last autumn.

lixy

I was amazed last night to discover that my garden is 'on trend' - lots of white with 'pops' of magenta at the moment in the back garden, cornflowers and poppies in the front!
I don't think I've ever been on trend with anything in my whole life before!

Chelsea is like the London fashion show - everyone goes, no-one would actually wear anything on show there but it's good for networking and catching up with the new ideas.

lixy Same. Never on trend - but I love 'seeing' our garden trending

lixy

Lovely to see, all so clean and tidy and not a weed in sight.

I visited RHS Wisley a few weeks ago and there weren't any weeds there either thanks to a thick mulch - amazing!

My garden is a tad more 'natural'.
Looking forward to the rest of the week.

Apparently one of the designers spent £30 per clump for dandelions, so I think there must have been a few weeds!! He could have saved some cash and come and dug up all of mine for free .

I was amazed last night to discover that my garden is 'on trend' - lots of white with 'pops' of magenta at the moment in the back garden, cornflowers and poppies in the front!
I don't think I've ever been on trend with anything in my whole life before!

Chelsea is like the London fashion show - everyone goes, no-one would actually wear anything on show there but it's good for networking and catching up with the new ideas.

Rewilding

Alan Titchmarsh has criticised the CFS, well last year’s in particular, for a prize going to a beaver enclosure and rewinding projects. He says they are not gardening. I suppose he has a point.

Madeliene
Why not get it on i player on your device.

I am spitting feathers as the saying goes. Our TV mast has chosen now to rejig itself after a long wait and it chooses chelsea week. Have attempted to retune and can get some programmes but not BBC1 or 2 so missing chelsea!!!

Fleurpepper I was last in Switzerland about this time of year in 2019. I have to agree that the wild meadows are beautiful.

Miss going there in person but have to admit that you get to see a lot more of the gardens on the TV without all the crowds. Don't understand the desire for weeds which the presenter said were everywhere this year, alright in a show garden but most people spend time trying to eliminate the weeds from their own gardens.

Almost forgot, weeds, or wildflowers are the flavour of the month this year, along with rubble and junk.

I accept that the planting is unrealistic in terms of flowering times, but it is a show and they do explain the ruses they go to in order to have the plants all flowering at the same time. My problem with Chelsea, or rather the bbc coverage is that they keep going over and over the same gardens for the whole four or five days, often ignoring or briefly skating over the small artisan gardens. By the second day I’m ready to switch off! My other beef is the mentioning of the sponsors during every programme. I thought the bbc were supposed to be advert free?