I wish I had found time in my diary this week to book tickets for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. I came back brimming with ideas and wishing my garden was much bigger from my previous visit.
All credit to the organisers for embracing the social media by using blogs and webcams to reach out to their horticultural loving audiences. It is also using interactive TV to bring the show alive to viewers.
Despite the vast numbers who attend this stunning 
show, I hope our future green-fingered generation will not decline as they choose to spend their time on computer games and social networking sites instead. And new homes are being built with smaller gardens than ever, making it more challenging for us to fly the "nation of garden lovers" flag. I really don’t think you can over-estimate the feeling of well being that walking in a beautiful garden provides.
This link shows you the transformation I carried out in my garden after it was virtually demolished by my football loving boys. Now it has been restored, I find it so peaceful and uplifting to sit in the shade; my only complaint is that I don’t do it often enough. I would very much like to grow a Meconopsis, but I’ve had no luck yet, though I do have a friend who is brilliant with nurturing them. But then Basia has won a couple of gold awards at the Chelsea Flower Show.
How important is your garden to you? And I wonder how many geeks are gardeners too?
I love love love my garden. I wish I had more money and time to spend in it. I have a massive front window feature that show-cases my front yard. It’s paved and beautiful, but needs work.
I love nothing better than when it rains and everything is glistening and wet!
A garden is never dull: there’s always something blooming and something dying, something which could be planted in a vacant spot and some hideous weed to evict. It beats 42 as the answer to the meaning of life.
The English love their gardens.
Good Morning. Ellee: My mother no longer maintains a garden, but rather, a flower garden due to her age. And it is her pride and joy! BTW: An atractive girl in that left photo. Is she taken? And lastly (back on topic), we have cabs in my city painted green and their motto is “Green Cabs for a Greener Earth!” Laugh if you must, but I’m being totally honest!!
We like our garden. I see you love aliums too! I would give my right arm to grow a meconopsis or keep a bought one alive!
I have an allottment, so the old growing stuff thing is kinda my main hobby… for the light time anyway…
I’d love to go the Chelsea Flower show. I was a great gardener but seem to have lost interest in my own a bit. It needs a bit of a makeover as it has become rather overgrown. All those perennials which need dividing. Ugh.
What is that woman doing with hairdryers on the bearded irises? Is she a dwarf or are they extra tall?
Your garden is stunning, so tranquil and inviting. Yes, it is hard to maintain a beautiful garden with a squad of children running rampant in it – my four wreak havoc there, but the pleasure they have there outweighs most of the damage done.
I was fortunate to have tickets one year to the last day of the Chelsea Flower Show; lingering as long as I could, I was able to buy some fabulous plants, shrubs and seeds at a fraction of their usual cost.
I used to always be dabbling in my little garden but now my back says “NO! STOP!” But my daughter is working her way through the winter weeds and today I bought a few geraniums and marigolds to plant tomorrow when she comes over. So much I’d love to do, but just haven’t the ability to maintain it myself.
As you know I love visiting gardens 🙂
The picture with the hairdryers made me smile. Mine broke when I turned it on this morning, I had to do something creative to give my hair some sort of style!