Treated myself to Gold Day Malvern RHS, what a treat - no crowds, time to really talk to enthusiastic nursery folk and take photos of Show Gardens minus bottoms and hats! Really loved the Chemistry Bias to the Graduate gardens and as usual loved workmanship and finish in the Graduate Garden well deserved Best in Show. What a funky idea having a decking overlooking a pool surrounded by your veggie patch - lovely.
Having problems uploading small enough files but here is a novel way of willow hedging. There was a great example of this in the Coppice stand using larch (now beginning to suffer from phytophera, and ash with willow), based in Malvern - really worth a look and they run courses. Great idea for around my veggie patch - more picturesque than my recycled pallets!
This hard landscaping was inspirational too and the aliums looked amazing despite the terrific wind at this end of the site. I remember helping a friend with a show garden with tulips two years ago - they spent their week almost horizontal.
These photos are not cropped or fiddled with - I'm having problems uploading but it gives you a taste if you live too far away to go yourself. Ballotta was planted in ribbons behind this blackboard - not often seen but fabulous and thrives on neglect. Sadly mine succumbed this winter - it had spread into a half barrel size specimen. Hoping to return to show today to purchase one in the sell off - always good fun!
This doesn't do justice to Graduate Gardeners veggie garden with chalet style "shed" but illustrates great blacksmithing and aesthetically pleasing planting surrounding the pool. I tend to take snapshops to remind me of ideas I might like to utilise rather than whole gardens - plenty of those photos around by now I am sure!
Loved the simplicity of this and like London Fashion Week - nice on the model but the practicalities of baubles in a farm garden - I don't think so! Immaculate planting though and lovely subdued hues.
Oh did I buy? Seeds mostly - oh and a greenhouse - new learning curve - so when you arrive for B&B and are gasping for a cup of tea there will be a new notice on the backdoor - in the garden/orchard/pottingshed/.... greenhouse! Just trying to work out how to get some electricity and water to it now - not exactly an impulse buy - I've been chatting to the standholder for five years oggling his vents - but still have to get around he who is important to help me level the ground etc.
Happy gardening and show visiting. Oh nearly forgot I visited a fabulous new NGS garden yesterday Titley Mill, Herefordshire, now here are some gardeners who know how to plant a bog garden and do wild in the orchard set beautifully in the landscape. Teas are great too - do visit if you can.
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