Hi all. Been at Chelsea all week and am absolutely flat out! Very long days filming and now flagging a little, even though it's extremely exciting and its been great fun. A typical day has been getting up at 5.30, a taxi to Chelsea, quick bite to eat and a cup of coffee and start filming around 7.30. I've been making short films in the morning about the show gardens, trends in the planting or my Indiana Jones debut, which was a laugh. Lunch is wolfed down then I start doing some filming with the outside broadcast crew which means a director talking in your ear while I'm trying to talk to someone which is pretty off putting.
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I only got back from Malvern last night! After the programme went out on Friday evening, I stayed on for the weekend to run the design theatre with my sparring partner James Alexander Sinclair, which was great fun, but totally exhausting. The weather was perfect and the show was simply the best ever. If you get the chance to go there, you should take it, because it has a very different feel to any of the other RHS gardening shows.
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Well, last week was a pretty busy one: filmed a day at the allotment putting in some bamboo canes for pea and bean supports, and then sowed directly into the ground. The height and structure of the poles instantly made my allotment look like an established plot! On Wednesday, I went up to Berryfields to help out while Monty's away and I have to say the garden looked absolutely stunning. Well done all. The tulips in the long border were doing their thing - the mix of colours was just so vibrant and they combined beautifully with the various zingy euphorbias in the long borders.
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