Chelsea

Do you have a link, please?

I find that hardly credible!

dalrymple23

I have not been for years, so enjoy it everyone. I can attest that dogs are fairly indiscriminate about where they pee. What does Monty D advise on doing about decimated patches of lawn and brown plants?

But make the most of it as, allegedly, Ange has grand plans to acquire the gardens for affordable housing. (Today's on-line news).

🤣🤣🤣🤣 The buildings and gardens are Grade 11 listed.
I would believe everything you read, if I were you!

Wouldn’t!!! Doh!

Lovely programme today I have never watched it before, so interesting. I would love to visit, but can't walk around it, and would never get my money worth.

Do they have patches in the lawn where the dogs have peed?

I LOVE the King's Rose by David Austin. Fabulous.

Whitewavemark2 Love your rose. I don't have any roses in the garden, and yours looks delicious. Does it need a full sun position. If I ventured to get one it would have to go in a semi shaded (autumn/winter) sunny spring/summer space.

I have been once and found it fascinating but tiring. I was allowed to go into a certain show garden as I was an investor with them. Very interesting to go around with the designer.

Well it is in semi shade I suppose. They - there are three of them in a group which ends up looking like one big bush - are in shade for part of the day by a holly tree. The bed they are in faces west.

I reckon if you could guarantee 6 hours of sun a day you would get away with it.

I loved the juxtaposition of lupin “masterpiece” with the cirsium.

I do have cirsium - they are in flower - but no masterpiece. I garden on chalk, and lupins don’t seem to do will, but I’ll give it a think. I love lupins.

The dominant colours in my garden are pink and blue, which sort if give way to reds and purples in the autumn.

I love this show highlight of my year. We’re going to gardeners world in June can’t wait. But Chelsea is my happy place in may!

Whitewavemark2

I loved the juxtaposition of lupin “masterpiece” with the cirsium.

I do have cirsium - they are in flower - but no masterpiece. I garden on chalk, and lupins don’t seem to do will, but I’ll give it a think. I love lupins.

The dominant colours in my garden are pink and blue, which sort if give way to reds and purples in the autumn.

I struggled to grow lupins in high alkaline soil but now I’ve moved (neutral to slightly acid) I’m able to enjoy. growing them. They’re such a lovely cottage garden plant.

Yes I’ve been looking this morning at the possibility, but I think they will have to be enjoyed from affair😞, as they will definitely struggle on alkaline soil.

merlotgran

escaped

It looks like Ned's mum and sister might have been invited!

It looks a lot more harmonious than when Peggy and her mum, Millie were reunited with Peggy’s brother, Gloster.
Millie jumped on him covering him with licks.
Peggy jumped on him and nearly took his head off! 😱

😆

merlotgran

Whitewavemark2

I loved the juxtaposition of lupin “masterpiece” with the cirsium.

I do have cirsium - they are in flower - but no masterpiece. I garden on chalk, and lupins don’t seem to do will, but I’ll give it a think. I love lupins.

The dominant colours in my garden are pink and blue, which sort if give way to reds and purples in the autumn.

I struggled to grow lupins in high alkaline soil but now I’ve moved (neutral to slightly acid) I’m able to enjoy. growing them. They’re such a lovely cottage garden plant.

I like lupins, but I thought they were poisonous for dogs.l??

Carol Klein is looking well today after her cancer treatment. I’m glad she’s ditched that green faux snakeskin suit she always wore which used to set off my trypophobia. 😱

I didn’t know that she has cancer😮

Just watched today's programme on BBC - why I wonder, was Angellica Bell wearing a flamenco dancer's dress?! Bit over the top for a flower show.

There were some very pretty gardens amongst the medal winners. I do love it, but sadly I'm only good at killing flowers and plants, not growing them.

Ok going to stick my neck out but I was disappointed with many of the big gardens. Style over substance but most of the small gardens were wonderful. The tent exhibitors excelled themselves, just amazing and so pleased my friend got gold, richly deserved, her white garden was beautiful. She's a penstemon expert so winning gold at Chelsea when she's not showing her specialist plants is pretty amazing. Colour of the year seems to be shades of purple!

I'm wondering where Joe is this year as he usually presents the evening show with Monty. I like him.

I too was wondering about Joe. I don’t think Monty and Rachel are a good fit.

What on earth is Angelica Bell wearing today?

Is she six?? 😂

merlotgran

What on earth is Angelica Bell wearing today?

Is she six?? 😂

I thought it must be weird as I am reading in the conservatory snd DH exclaimed “what on earth does she look like”

I must have been dreaming, but I thought Joe had designed one this year. Obviously wrong.

I was right. Joe Swift’s company “Modular” has built the Pathway garden?