Choice Chelsea Choices

 

No blithering here, just the bits I liked best; gardens, plants, plant combinations….I will let the pictures speak for themselves: I mean most things have already been said much more eloquently by many other people & to be honest, I can’t really be bothered.

 

 

 

Chelsea chapeaux et cheveux

There is a mass of blithering & blogging about the Chelsea Flower Show, & I expect I shall do some myself. When I am out in public with the extra-ordinarily talented Arabella Sock we frequently see who can spot the best hattiwat. So here is a slightly different view of the show. Let the hattiwats commence!




Tempted as I am to say my favourite is the up to the minute re-use & re-cycle converted lampshade, it has to be this rather chic little number

Five tulips do not a drift make….

Idiot! Me that is. Those of you who have stuck by me may remember that I have been re-vamping a triangular flower bed in my small garden, enthused by a garden at Hampton Court Flower Show last year. It is actually pretty much nothing like the planting in the show garden, but it got me to dig up & re-plant with a vague nod in the direction of the glorious show I saw.

I wanted to plant some tulips in the bed so bought a selection of different purples.Being a Lazy Trollop I bought a ready made selection thinking it would save me matching them up myself. 5 each of 5 selections. It was a pleasure planting them in the freshly dug ground which had been topped up generously with compost courtesy of the compost bin & the council. I planted the bulbs in drifts, snaking between the other plants & was excited at the prospect of seeing the fruits of my labours……………..

 

Idiot! Of course  5 tulips don’t make anything like a drift; how could I have even thought that was possible. Although the flowers were lovely, indeed some of them still are, they just looked like a random scattering of tulips across the whole bed. On top of that the heavy rain just as the stems had reached their full height meant they flopped all over the place & the cat rampaging through the bed to leap over the fence to next door added to the general look of chaos & mess.

Don’t get me wrong, as individuals they are beautiful, but as a group, annoying & not achieving their full potential!

Damn!