[pbs] Chelsea flower show
Brian Whyer
brian.whyer at btinternet.com
Wed May 30 17:42:15 EDT 2007
What no mention of the Alpine Garden Society Gold medal winning display.
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/stoppress/stoppress/Gold+Medal+at+Chelsea
+/143 and more photos at
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/stoppress/stoppress/Chelsea+Exhibit+Finis
hing+Touches/142
Or look at the show gardens on the RHS site at
http://www.rhs.org.uk/chelsea/2007/live/ipix/index.asp
Brian Whyer, Buckinghamshire, England, sometime AGS CFS labourer. My those
railway (road) sleepers (ties) were heavy.
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> I have planted many alliums in my garden but there is not enough chill
hours
> to keep them coming back.
> I do have a nice stand of what was given to me called "drumstick
alliums".
> They have come back and even increased here in zone 9. I'll share some
with
> Chad.
> A bit of garden humor, my husband wasn't very fond of them BUT, now that
he
> is an avid beekeeper, he likes everything the bees like and is
anticipating
> those "bee balls" blooming soon. They did indeed look like purple
balls
> covered in bees. I had many plants he wasn't fond of but when he sees
the bees
> all over them his preferences change fast and they have become desirable
> plants.
> Every year I say I am going to the Chelsea flower show and then get so
busy
> in my own garden I forget all about it. This year I did go to the
National
> Iris Convention but my own garden was in such lush gorgeous bloom I had
many
> moments of wondering what I was doing at the National Convention.
> Carolyn in zone 9
>
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