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I will start my additional pictures of Chelsea now and will post more as I get time.
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As soon as John saw that the Scottish contingent had arrived he opened the champagne, and it was a good one.
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Alliums provide eye catching colours and form.
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Giant balls of allimums are a very sriking statement for any garden.
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Big John Amand is always making the last minute checks insuring that everything is looking good and labeled correctly.
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Arisaema candidissimum
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Dysosma delavayi previously known as podophylum also has fantastic leaves.
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Another view of the stand and some weird plants.
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The Bat Flower, Tacca chantrieri.
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Big John elevated in rank or what.
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A series of pictures of the Alpine Garden Society's Gold Medal winning stand.
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First an unusual living sculpture al la Gilbert and George, notice the removed shoe so he does not make the display dirty.
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Yes it is Ray Drew one of the successful team.
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More from the AGS.
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I do like the AGS stand. I think it is a good idea to show plants in unusual containers to show that there are many ways to enjoy the little plants that are at the root of our obsessions!
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Thanks for these pix, Ian. A splendid display. A good brief feature on the AGS on the bbc Chelsea show tonight. I do like the exhibit - many congrats to all our AGS colleagues who contributed to this accolade once again. :) :) :)
Dave
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Yes, it was great that the stand got some TV attention, the Show Team will be very pleased. I caught a glimpse of Jim McGregor at one point! Missed the first bit, but I think I may be able to see it again via the interactive facility..hope so, anyway.
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Great to see these photographs. Many thanks.
Two questions:
What are the three 'implements' in front of the champagne bottle in the very first picture at the start of the posting?
How are those troughs with the very thin walls which look like stone made?
Paddy
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Thank you thank you thank you Ian. :o As a teacher, it is not an event I can attend until I retire, but this is fantastic and much more better than the dreary rubbish the Beeb puts out. :P
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As soon as John saw that the Scottish contingent had arrived he opened the champagne, and it was a good one.
I think Big John has the mix just right. suitable glasses for heaps of champagne, a couple of orange juice and a very little water - whatever you take it in :D
And by the way, canonization is quite appropriate, considering the quality and range of plants this man grows and displays. The nearest I'll ever get to heaven!
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And my sincere thasnks too Ian, for these lovely pics, much better than the roses and delphiniums and outside gardens that are all we get of Chelsea here.
That first AGS pic, viewed before enlargement was of great interest. I thought "this must be a display of South American plants. Wonder how they're keeping the alpaca tethered there?"
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I've got to come back on what Anthony has said above. Isn't it amazing that despite the huge amount of money the BBC must be spending on its coverage of Chelsea that I have seen the best coverage here. These photographs - and those on the AGS site - have been better than anything I have yet seen on the BBC's Chelsea programme.
I have suffered through the repetion of each of the BBC broadcasts to date, always in hope that they will show something of interest, something that a gardener might like to see rather than listen to them prattle on and on in the feather-headed manner they have come to perfect, saying nothing worth listening to and showing nothing (well, very little) worth watching.
Though I think Alan Titchmarsh is an excellent presenter, and from his television programmes he struck me as a reasonably competent gardener, he seems to be controlled in what he presents because the programmes certainly lack content. As for the other presenters - well, from their television appearances on gardening programmes, I know they know little about gardening. The only good thing about the television coverage to date is that I have been spared the presence of Monty Don.
Now, rant over, I'm off to bed. My thanks to Ian for such a splendid report. I, for one, certainly enjoyed it tremendously.
Paddy
I see Lesley has posted while I was writing. Lesley, the coverage here is no better than what you see. Paddy
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Thanks for all the kind comments I am glad that you are all enjoying my pics.
Here is the next installment showing the Darcy Everest stand of troughs.
Following up on the AGS by showing that you do not need to be too precious with alpines any one ccan grow them in any old container. I liked the wooden boxes.
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A few more before I go into the garden for the day.
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Two questions:
What are the three 'implements' in front of the champagne bottle in the very first picture at the start of the posting?
How are those troughs with the very thin walls which look like stone made?
from Paddy...
I think the three rather sinister looking "imlpements" are in fact three innocent name labels !
Ian isn't sure about the thin troughs...attractive, are they not? They look like thin slate almost, but he was not able to get close enough to investigate... they may even be some kind of clever plastic resin... perhaps Ray Drew or John Humphries or another of the AGS chaps will let us know ??!!??
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Fantastic. Those "toilets for the little people" are brilliant. It has got me thinking. Tose slate boxes look as if they are made from the sort of large floor tiles you can buy in various tile outlets. Must investigate. Oops there's the bell. Playtime. ;D
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The toilets for the little people must be 'bog' plants surely? ;)
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Ian,
I'll add my thanks for the pics, especially the AGS ones as I missed the BBC coverage, being in Transit somewhere over Europe at the time, I think!
I'm heading home for a week's holiday after all this travelling (I have a very understanding boss!) so hope to catch up then,
cheers
fermi
(in Singapore Airport for another 4 hours before catching a 7 hour flight home!)
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The toilets for the little people must be 'bog' plants surely? ;)
Absolutely, and stop calling me Shirley Cliff! :-\
Enjoy Singapore Airport Fermi. There's some fantastic floral displays. I liked the grove of tree ferns, but alas, had no time to enjoy them. Apparently, if your stop-over is 6 hours or more you can get a tour of the city?
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Yes, Anthony, you can, but as it's still 31C outside and I'm carrying a jacket, wearing heavy jeans, a T-shirt and overshirt, I'm not keen of venturing out of the (air-conditioned?) terminal! I certainly don't want to end up in a hospital ("A hospital! What is it?"; "It's a big building full of sick people. But let's not worry about it now!") You started it, Shirley!
I got a pic of the treefern grove on the first stop over; I may post it as a pic later.
cheers
fermi
( 2 hours to flight time)
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Yup, I guess they are bog plants -that must be where they got that name from :D
Glad you are the home leg Fermi.
A few shots that I took of the outside show gardens.
First my favourite of them all.
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By the way the rain came on that is why I am back at the PC.
Some of the other outside gardens now.
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Ian,
Thanks for giving us this great Chelsea Tour.
Interesting to see the wooden box troughs.
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Ian many thanks for all the amazing pix. David and I have promised ourselves we will 'do' Chelsea once we retire :D :D :D
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I visited Chelsea 1975
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Could anyone tell me what kind of arisaema it was Jaques Amand's display behind the candidissimum with the tall mottled stem and the large leaves.
I like the look of the taller ones.
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Ian, the big Arisaema behing the A. candidissimum were A. griffithii
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Thanks Ian.
That's one that I'll have to ask Carol to look out for me.
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I've just been ejoying John Humphries photos of the AGS Chelsea set-up and display... I would have posted my congratulations but i cannot, for the life of me, remember my password for the site and there is no "help" button! I'll just have to hope that the Show Team read it here!
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I have two griffithii flowering, which I bought from St John at last year's show at Ingliston. He was selling them off at a pound each because they'd been left in the fridge too long. ::) The Cypripedium parviflorum pubescens (which didn't win the cup, it was the serapias) also came from big John at an Early Bulb Show some time ago.
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A few more bulb pictures from Chelsea.
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And some more bulb shots.
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Thank you thank you thank you Ian. :o As a teacher, it is not an event I can attend until I retire, but this is fantastic and much more better than the dreary rubbish the Beeb puts out. :P
How many days do you want at the show Anthony ?
I going tomorrow (Saturday) and unless things have changed or different up there, there is no school (or maybe you have other commitments).
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Thank you thank you thank you Ian. :o As a teacher, it is not an event I can attend until I retire, but this is fantastic and much more better than the dreary rubbish the Beeb puts out. :P
How many days do you want at the show Anthony ?
I going tomorrow (Saturday) and unless things have changed or different up there, there is no school (or maybe you have other commitments).
"As a teacher.......and much more better....." Not as a teacher, I assume there's a slight slip of the finger or tongue here? Really picky of me considering the nice offer which was in my Inbox this morning!
Andrew, perhaps Dunblane to London to Chelsea and back to Dunblane is a big ask all before Sunday evening?
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As a young English teacher from East Lancashire might contribute; "...And much more betterer"....eh, Lesley?
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Couldn't have putt'n it be'er myself.
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Anthony,
Don't teachers in Dunblane never have 'sick' days?
Leaving things until you retire is, I reckon, a certain recipe for disappointment. You retire and hope to do all these things but find you are too old to undertake the journey involved etc.
Carpe diem!
Take a week next year, visit Kew, Wisley and the wonderful gardens in the area.
There will be nobody waiting to give you a gold medal when you retire, saying 'Never took a sick day out to enjoy himself'.
And, couldn't agree morer that the Beeb coverage of Chelsea is pure rubbish.
Paddy
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A great well crafted display of pelargoniums with a perfect ripple running from side to side and front to back. It must take hours of work to lay them out selecting the heights to get that effect.
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I could so easily get hooked on Cacti they are fantastic plants especially when you see so many perfect specimens so well laid out like these are.
Every pot scrubbed clean with fresh top dressing and each one angled to allow the observer the best view possible.
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A shot of the Grand Marquee where all the floral exhibits are - this is the most interesting part of the whole show not the outside gardens or the celebrities that the Beeb show.
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We are very lucky to get to go to Chelsea on Judging day - not many people see Chelsea as quite as this.
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What a surprise we had when Henrik Zetterland rushed up to us, we had no idea that he was to be there. He and his duaghter had come over with some 'Swedish' plants for the Linnaeus garden.
Sandy leven and Harley milne are the other two with Fred hunt just hiding behind Harley.
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Fred and Sandy were my companions for the day as we studied the exhibits.
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As well as the outside Linnaeus garden there was a stand inside from the Linnaeus Society.
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Sandy wanted his picture with the youthful Linnaeus.
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And Fred liked this plant.
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In the Evening there is a Grand doo where all the great and the good, or all those that can afford the price of the ticket come and display their wealth - the proceeds go to charity. Here they are building a table carved from solid ice to keep the boose cool.
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I was dissapointed that this snatched shot came out blurry but I still like it. It shows some of the many police that are there in the afternoon when the Royals are about - just in case any of we Scots want to rebel a bit ;)
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And, couldn't agree morer that the Beeb coverage of Chelsea is pure rubbish.
TV is a world of its own... The tours with Carol Klein and Chris Beardshaw on the interactive service and available on the BBC web site at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/flower_shows/chelsea_2007/videopodcast_index.shtml
weren't so bad, there was a lot of time devoted to the AGS display in them.
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For how long has Chelsea been open on a Saturday? I would imagine that it would be shoulder-to-shoulder - all these teachers. As for taking a day off? I'm a professional, and if I take a day off somebody else has to cover my classes and they don't get gold medals for that. ::)
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For how long has Chelsea been open on a Saturday?
It was last year and I think just a few before that, as well.
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Just adding a couple of pictures that made me smile ;D.
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I really like the "gnome killer" although I dread to think how much a work of art like that would cost.
How large was it?
The other one looks like a cute version of Smeagol from lord of the rings.
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£13,000!! I've longed after David Goode sculptures for many a year http://www.david-goode.com/gallery.html (http://www.david-goode.com/gallery.html)
Everyday I thought the TV coverage would be better but alas it wasnt. 9 hours of absolute tosh.
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I think I will hanker after a Lawrence Greenwood painting (of Ranunculus glacialis, of course) instead.....
Each to his or her own.....
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Not the sort of thing I could bring home on the overnight bus? ::)