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Posted by Lowena (U14575314) on Sunday, 22nd May 2011
Well, what did we all think? I enjoyed it, and eagerly await the rest of the week's programmes
The Kew/Marcus Barnette garden looks good, and nice underlying message with our reliance on plants for life on Earth.
I wonder if Toby will be able to avoid any sarky remarks?
Enjoyed Joe Swift's impression of Harry Hill.
The water-wheel (Leeds exhibit) gave me a Tolkienesque feeling - Sarehole Mill etc. Nice.
There were a lot of ponds everywhere, 25 ponds in Diarmuid Gavin's garden alone. I felt that having lots of water everywhere, during a drought, was symptomatic of something - possibly the absence of common sense.
Looking forward to seeing DG's pod flying, in 80mph winds, with GD inside it. This is a case of a designer with a huge ego thinking they are smarter than nature, and looking silly because of it.
The next garden (Cancer research) had half-a-dozen ponds too. Intended to represent rock-pools along a seashore. Didn't like the design.
The next garden - another lake - was said to have been inspired by the Japanese Earthquake in March. That's a very short time-scale. I thought that these gardens had much longer development leadtimes than that. Perhaps not.
The next (British Heart Foundation) was another huge pond. I did like this one though. It was very naturalistic, and the red stepping stones and red piping certainly gave the feeling of blood. Good one.
Onto the small gardens - liked the little Temple with blue carpets. At first sight the blue carpets looked like crystal-clear blue ponds. But no actual water! Excellent! That statue was dreadfully twee.
The theme of the Aussie garden - 'The Journey of Water'. At least Aussies recognise the importance of the stuff, and only one modest pond.
The 'Wild Garden' (two ponds) didn't look very wild to me. Not a single plant in either of the pools. Dreadful.
Altogether, interesting, informative, and entertaining.
I enjoyed the show - it had none of that slightly nervous live feel it sometimes has and the bonhomie between AT and Joe and also from Christine was fun. I do wish that they would give a quick menu-style overview of all the big gardens first, rather than going off behind-the-scenes so quickly. The gardens all looked surprisingly garish to me - less muted and more eclectic and joyous. I wanted to know if that was generally the case across the show. I suppose they want us to keep going back for more.
As for Toby, he's had plenty of opportunties to be snarky about the beeb - if he was going to he'd have surely done it by now and he's far too much of a gentleman anyway! He will do what he always does and put the gardening and the plants centrestage not himself.
Enjoyed the lunchtime programme, except for the florist. Not my bag, personally, so I fast forwarded him Thought the rest was good
I love DG garden. This MUST be gold, at last!! I just thought he was complimenting the Queen a bit too hard. Politics? Just get your plants right DG, that's enough to win a gold.
Get rid of Christine....you sets horticulture back years.
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Posted by Pumpkin_Patch_Paul (U14565900) on Monday, 23rd May 2011
I have enjoyed it so far only gripe why bother going on about celebrates....
Nice to see Toby on form I am realy enjoying the coverage and love the Leeds watermill,the amount of work that goes into the Chelsea show is mind boggling.
Do think we will see Monty Don at the show.......
Monty Don has gone on record saying that he does not like Flower Shows and does not attend them.
D G's garden is rubbish in my opinion - just controversial for controversys sake.
I like the Monaco Garden and the Watermill one. Where's Chris Beardshaw?
i have enjoyed the coverage of Chelsea so far. I agree with the comment about Christine, not one of my favourite presenters, and Nicki Chapman and Rachel De Thame they can go too. But overall I'm loving the show.
My favourite garden so far is The Chillstone Garden, I love the planting not so much the twee ice sculpture and unnecessary outdoor carpet.
Looking forward to tomorrow.
NDC
I live in East Sussex where the weather has been gradually warming up for the last hundred years. As a result of this I am now able to grow Trachycarus Fortunei, Australian Corduli and Cabbage Palms instead of trees.
I've seen these in the show gardens today. However, when the presenters go around the gardens they always ignore them and they never get a mention.
Joe Swift did a small piece in one of Monty Don's Friday programmes. That's the only time they have ever had a mention.
What's the problem ´óÏó´«Ã½ as I would like to know more about them and how to get the best out of them?
Why does the ´óÏó´«Ã½ choose to blank them out as a lot of people must be increasingly growing them?
I'm really enjoying the coverage so far and have seen things in all the gardens which I like.
Two things I haven't liked are the turquoise carpet and the ice sculpture - don't understand why they are in what is otherwise a nice garden.
Lowena - Chris Beardshaw was on at lunchtime. You'll have to see if you can catch him on i-player!!!
Thanks Boofer - I'm off there now
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I can't find the 360 degree pictures of the show gardens on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ site this year. It was the best part of the Chelsea website...
Sorry but the Joe and Alan show is so irritating and Alan making such a fuss of coming from Yorkshire and doesn't even live there!.
The lunchtime programme which I caught today is so much better than the evening programme.
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Posted by anothergardener (U14387447) on Tuesday, 24th May 2011
The 360 pictures are on the RHS site.
Get rid of Christine....you sets horticulture back years.Ìý
How I agree with you, I'm afraid I never have liked her very much. It's bad enough having to put up with her on 'The One Show' without having her on every day.
In the past I've really enjoyed Carol's visits to the main marquees so I hope to see more of that this time.
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Posted by Pumpkin_Patch_Paul (U14565900) on Tuesday, 24th May 2011
Christine presenting manner came over today like a cross between David Fost,Alan Whicker and Loyd Grossman....Come on Christine be your self because it was all very odd!
I`m liking Christine. She `s passionate and knows what she`s talking about.
IMHO of course.
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Christine should write the scripts for RdeT to deliver to camera, then we'd have the best of both worlds
where's 'BUNTY'
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Posted by Rainjustlearning (U12861332) on Tuesday, 24th May 2011
That's a comic isnt it RC, ?
Rain
Did any of the knowledgeable people here catch the name of the Allium on Monday evening's show from Chelsea? The particular variety I'm referring to, I think, have a stem that contorts and changes shape after flowering.
I've tried watching back and listening very carefully but no joy.
Any ideas?
Sorry I mean Bunny Guinness - I shouldn't do that
Anyway where is she?
Alan's just mentioned her - Bunny
outofsussex
the bulb you are looking for is
Allium sativum var. ophioscorodon
Did any of the knowledgeable people here catch the name of the Allium on Monday evening's show from Chelsea? The particular variety I'm referring to, I think, have a stem that contorts and changes shape after flowering.
I've tried watching back and listening very carefully but no joy.
Any ideas?
Ìý
I think the allium was A. sativum, aka garlic.
I enjoyed the coverage, except for the annoying background music. When you are walking round a garden admiring the flowers, the last thing you want is someone walking behind you monotonously beating a drum, but that is what we had all the time.
I see that Gavin still refers to the "R Haitch S", I wish someone would tell him!
Rowancottage- I am indebted to you.
I knew this was the right place to ask.
Thankyou.
Bunny G was on today, being a trifle miffed at not getting a gold medal. Not as miffed as her sponsors, I'll bet
I expect she'll be introduced as Bunny 'bungle' Guinness on GQT
Lowena
Not as miffed as she will be that Gaaaarmuttt got a gold
Daddy's got a porsche....................................
I used to enjoy watching Chelsea, but now they spend so much time talking about the gardens!!?? and people and with Christine in the marquee the programme has gone down hill.
I watched last nights programme with alan titmarsh talking to joe swift and kept thinking how joe had let himself go-how he kept banging on telling everybody how old he was- I'm 90 you know-(how many more times!)- never mentioned chelsea or allotments once when I suddenly realised i was watching itv.
Gosh what a shock- hope I never make that mistake again.
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Posted by Pumpkin_Patch_Paul (U14565900) on Wednesday, 25th May 2011
Well I have had to google Bunny Guiness to find out who she is......The niece of David Austen now him I have heard of..
PPP.
I'm surprised that on-one's mentioned Diarmuid Gavin's "Lead Zeppelin", what is that for? His garden is really quite special on its own though there are plenty of other good ones too;
The "best in show", inspired by ruins in the Libyan desert, leaves me a bit cold too. I don't think I'll be shopping around for greek columns in the near future.
Lucky those who can go and see it in person, I'll get there one day. L
I stopped watching the Chelsea coverage years ago when they showed us a contributer buiding a shed but I read the programme notes. What did Nigel Slater's garden have to do with Chelsea and tonights programme looks as though it will still not show us anything we want to see. Those who cannot get to the show want to see what is there! Peggles 198
Assuming you're one of the majority who can, watch Chelsea on the Red Button. You. actually get to see the show gardens and the plants in the marquee. No rushing about, no brainless interviews, no chat and no funnies. Well, I think they're supposed to be funnies.
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Posted by the cycling gardener (U2350416) on Wednesday, 25th May 2011
I stopped watching the Chelsea coverage years ago when they showed us a contributer buiding a shed but I read the programme notes. What did Nigel Slater's garden have to do with Chelsea and tonights programme looks as though it will still not show us anything we want to see. Those who cannot get to the show want to see what is there! Peggles 198Ìý
Hi Peggles. I went yesterday. As usual the day was exhausting but great fun. Here is a link to some shots of gardens I managed to get minus crowds, arms, legs, heads etc - many towards the end of the day so I hope you will excuse the light conditions. I won't bore you with the zillions of photos I took in the Pavilion.
I'm really enjoying the TV coverage by the way - I just fast foward through the irrelevant bits.
Beautiful photos, Cycling Gardener. I've just whizzed through the slideshow but will return to study them in more detail.
Did you agree with the medals awarded? I loved Cleve's planting but slightly preferred the Italian bloke's as they were more my colours. I think Cleve deserved best in Show for the whole garden though.
Hi Oldends
Yes I do have the red button.
However, I cannot stand Christine, bring back Carol, and I am bored with seeing endless coverage of so called gardens and personalities.
I enjoyed inclusion of rhododendrons the other evening, particularly the Millais nursery. Has anyone grown any of the lime tolerant rhodies? They have been in the news for years, but I have never seen any in retail outlets.
The Millais family (originally from Jersey) go back to the famous pre-raphaelite brotherhood painter, John Everett Millais the technician of the group. His son John Guille Millais was a prime mover of the Rhododendron society in 1915.
Thanks for sharing your photos. Have seen details I've missed on the TV coverage.
I love each and every transmission from Chelsea although wild horses wouldn't drag me there as I hate crowds.
Incidentally one of my earlier posts was moderated. Perhaps the use of a word which rhymes with 'slammed' but begins with a 'D' caused offence. Surely not.
? Well I'll be........
Tonight's coverage is just superb.
First, we have the Arts and Crafts movement as a core theme to take us into gardening history setting so many of the gardens in context.
Secondly - linked to that theme - loads of coverage of hardy plants, notably naturalistic ones.
A really strong programme with a clear narrative. I'm not generally a big fan of show gardening programmes, but this is brilliant.
Please can we have an injection of history and context into GW, or better still, an English/northern European gardening addition to GW. All we've had recently has been Monty's Italian series (and before that Around The World). Lovely, but can we have something closer to home, please?
Trillium
Could not agree more - it was a very well presented progamme
I thought that last night's prog. was BORING.
listening to AT and JS waffling on and on about a past gardener was too much!
I tune in to see the flowers. If it wasn't for Carole getting all enthusiastic about them, I would have turned off.
Alan is in danger of getting so far "up himself" that people won't tune in.
Another prize Bore is Llewelyn-Bowen, what did a tour of his garden, have to do with Chelsea? Was he just taking the opportunity to show off his posh pad??
It is supposed to be a FLOWER Show.
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