Chelsea Flower Show 2016 Preview: The Cloudy Bay Garden
Reading time 7 minutes
In just 11 days the Chelsea Flower Show will fling open its gates to an expectant crowd of RHS members and their guests. Until […]
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The Very Best of 2015 – A Year in Pictures
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The moment I sit down to write my review of the year my mind goes completely blank. How do I sum up the year […]
An Eye for Irises
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It’s a case of eat, sleep, work and repeat this week. The weekend cannot arrive soon enough. Considering what to write about tonight I realised […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – The Hidden Beauty of Kranji
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In 2005, Singapore announced plans to distinguish itself as a ‘City in a Garden’. The projects that followed, such as The Gardens by the Bay, […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – Stars of the Show: Edo no Niwa by Ishihara Kazuyuki
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I changed my plans this year and instead of dashing headlong for Main Avenue when the show opened on Tuesday, I hung a left […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – The People’s Choice: Sentebale – Hope in Vulnerability
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I feel for Matt Keightley, the garden designer who narrowly missed out on a Chelsea gold medal for two years running. Last year his […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – Stars of the Show: World Vision and Dark Matter
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Big budget show gardens are all well and good, but it was two of Chelsea’s smaller gardens that really impressed me on Tuesday. The ‘Fresh’ category is […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – Stars of the Show: Laurent-Perrier Chatsworth Garden
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At about 10.30am yesterday morning a small crowd surrounded Monty Don and RHS Director General Sue Biggs as they prepared to announce the prize […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – The Dream Ticket
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Generally speaking I am not the kind of person who wins lotteries or ballots. I don’t even come out of tombolas or raffles particularly […]
Great Expectations – Chelsea Flower Show 2015 Show Gardens
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Only fifteen days into the New Year and the RHS have offered the public a glimpse of how the show gardens will look at this year’s […]
The Very Best of 2014 – A Year In Pictures
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I embark on my review of 2014 with a degree of trepidation, as this year did not turn out to be quite as joyful as […]
Alive and Kicking (健在で)
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Those of you wondering where The Frustrated Gardener has got to need not worry. I am alive and kicking in China, having just been to […]