A week ago, I was at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. I think it's my favourite of the two big London RHS shows, not least because there are so many sellers there - the first thing I did was make a beeline for the Nemaslug guy! Hopefully this will reduce the number of slugs eating my ferns and angiosperms, the little bastards.
Anyway, pictures. Really liked some of the ideas in the sustainable gardens, including this one, The Rain Chain, with a chain directing water off the roof. I wonder if this might be a solution to my obscenely wide downspout?
I also liked Jack Dunckley's A Desert's Delight, with two distinct exotic gardening styles, the xeriscape:
And the lush tropical:
The Thailand Garden of Serenity was gorgeous too:
And I need to add this crocodile fern to the Covet List:
Only two of the conceptual gardens were what I would call pretentious wankery, and I very much loved this one, Concreation:
And the It's Hard To See garden, which I showed you last week.
There was more shopping in the form of what is becoming an annual trip to the Mendip Bonsai stand. They sell all my favourite exotic conifers as seedlings, suitable for planting out, container growing or bonsai. Last year I got myself a Taxodium distichum, a Ginkgo biloba and a Sequioadendron giganteum - the whole lot came to about £7, and the Ginkgo and Taxodium have each grown about a foot and a half in the past year. This year I picked up a Pseudolarix amabilis and a Larix kaempferi. And I could do whole posts just on bonsai trees. Art masquerading as gardening, that is.
Hubster managed to keep himself entertained, and I think (although he'd never admit it in case I get the impression he likes looking at plants) he actually enjoyed himself. Unlike this really bored-looking dragon:
Anyway, pictures. Really liked some of the ideas in the sustainable gardens, including this one, The Rain Chain, with a chain directing water off the roof. I wonder if this might be a solution to my obscenely wide downspout?
I also liked Jack Dunckley's A Desert's Delight, with two distinct exotic gardening styles, the xeriscape:
And the lush tropical:
The Thailand Garden of Serenity was gorgeous too:
And I need to add this crocodile fern to the Covet List:
Only two of the conceptual gardens were what I would call pretentious wankery, and I very much loved this one, Concreation:
And the It's Hard To See garden, which I showed you last week.
There was more shopping in the form of what is becoming an annual trip to the Mendip Bonsai stand. They sell all my favourite exotic conifers as seedlings, suitable for planting out, container growing or bonsai. Last year I got myself a Taxodium distichum, a Ginkgo biloba and a Sequioadendron giganteum - the whole lot came to about £7, and the Ginkgo and Taxodium have each grown about a foot and a half in the past year. This year I picked up a Pseudolarix amabilis and a Larix kaempferi. And I could do whole posts just on bonsai trees. Art masquerading as gardening, that is.
Hubster managed to keep himself entertained, and I think (although he'd never admit it in case I get the impression he likes looking at plants) he actually enjoyed himself. Unlike this really bored-looking dragon:
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