Chelsea flower show 09

[Ian Y]

The fantastic project from Writhlington School where they culture orchid seeds.
Read the captions and follow the progress.

[Ian Y]

This herb stand was my Best in Show- next to Big John Amand's stand of bulbs that is.

[Carlo]

I see the orchids attracted your eye! You know, that would be year-round gardening. I grow several of the ones you photographed here. One of them Phalaenopsis parishii, looks far larger in your picture than it is in real life.... A beauty none-the-less...

[hadacekf]

Thanks Ian for your pictures of the wonderful Show.

[Paddy Tobin]

Better coverage than the BBC.

Great sets of photographs. Many thanks. Paddy

[Lesley Cox]

Chelsea as mentioned briefly on our main TV news last night. Needless to say, all we saw was James May's plasticine effort, Stephen Fry wondering how to lauch something and HRH kissing his ma's hand. Pathetic!

[Paddy Tobin]

Well, Lesley, if you were following the coverage on the BBC - the official coverage of the show - you would be sick to the teeth of  listening to silly fools who know nothing about gardening repeating their nonsensical comments on each repeated show. It is truly frustrating to watch in hopes of seeing the gardens or, heaven forbid, some plants.

Paddy

[Lesley Cox]

Luit, I have removed the repeated pix

No you haven't. They're still on my screen.

[Lvandelft]

and on my screen too.

Making such a Herb Garden must have been an enormous task. Thinking of preparing such huge flowering Brassica(?) for
moving and planting.

[Maggi Young]

Extra pix are gone here..... perhaps they are coming from the cache on your machines?

[Maggi Young]

We protested to the RHS and BBC about the tasteless remarks by Titchmarsh and Swift on Monday night about the system for awarding the VHM on the day of Kath Dryden's death and were pleased to hear Titchmarsh give a little tribute to her this evening.

The level of repeated material is annoying and I can never understand why, if they want to show us preparations for the show, or the gardens of assorted "celebrities", they do not make special programmes of those, to complement the actual coverage of the show, leaving the whole time of the event being live to cover more aspects of the show itself. 

[Maggi Young]

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[ChrisB]

Maggi - the BBC coverage of the show is not about the show nowadays, its about the presenters.  And Joe Swift acting silly trying to outdo Titch is absurd.  For the past few years they've done this thing where one presenter tries to outdo the other in terms of having more noble opinions and such like.  GW is just the same, its no longer about gardening, but about the celebrity presenters jockeying for position.  I was pleased, however, that they did coverage of the micropropped orchids, that young lady they spoke to was quite articulate wasn't she?  What a sweetie, a bit precocious but hey, we need one or two young uns like that.  On Tuesday night they had coverage of Jekka getting ready for Chelsea, which I actually enjoyed.  Such a wonderful stand, and Ian's pictures are much better than the TV camera footage of the stand.  Instead of showing it to us so we could see the whole thing, we got a few close ups of the stand then the presenters again.  I'm so sick of seeing them.  Don't mind if they want to talk, but show us the plants, not these celebrities!!!  Sure hope someone from the BBC reads this thread....

[Maggi Young]

Ian was very impressed withthe young folk from Writhlington and their orchids when he first saw them at Chelsea, having read an article about  the work the school was doing. Now he seeks them out to find out what they're up to next.    Yes, that wee lassie was great, so nice to see children getting interested in some practical, if not exactly everyday activity! 

[ChrisB]

It certainly is.  Wish more schools got involved in that sort of thing.  Where abouts is the school?  Never heard of the place before, must be smallish....