Posts Tagged ‘RHS Chelsea 2016’

It’s the final day of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016 and I wanted to round off my week of blog posts with some of the plants that shone out at the show.

There’s always a bit of a theme at Chelsea, partly due to the weather and what’s available at the time, but often it sets the tone of trends to come.  For one of my projects in Monmouth, I have been trying to source foxgloves and there seems to be a shortage at the nurseries I work with.

But having been to Chelsea all has become clear because they were visible everywhere at the show.

Geums are no stranger to the show, but this year the paler varieties were more visible.

But of course there were some vibrant orange ones too…

Yellow Aquilegia chrysantha was also a popular choice and featured in Cleve West’s garden for M&G which, as you know, was my favourite of the show gardens.

And one of my favourite cottage plants, verbascum also featured a lot.

But I want to leave you with a couple of images of the crocheted poppies in the grounds of the hospital which aren’t technically plants, but they still warrant a place here. Lynn Berry and Margaret Knight founded the 5000 Poppies Project to acknowledge the service and sacrifice of our servicemen and women.

If you visited the show I really hope you took some inspiration away for your own garden, I know I did!

(Images: Lisa Cox)

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This afternoon I have two more gardens to share with you.  The first is the Papworth Trust ‘Together We Can’ garden, designed by Peter Eustance. Read more

I love the Artisan Gardens at Chelsea – I sometimes think they’re more inspiring, probably because they’re so small and full of detail. Read more

This afternoon I want to share some pictures I took of three of the other main show gardens.  There were a lot of “rocket” plants this year ranging from foxgloves to Eremerus to Lupins. Read more

I love going to Chelsea and the occasional trip up to London but I’m glad to be back to the Welsh Hills this morning with the fresh air and peaceful surroundings. I mentioned on monday about the inspiration I’d picked up for my own garden and I wanted to share some pictures of the gardens that got my creative planting juices flowing. Read more

Andy Sturgeon returned to Chelsea this year to design The Telegraph Garden. Read more

As you know, I was really looking forward to seeing The Winton Beauty of Mathematics Garden.  On paper it looked really interesting – it didn’t disappoint. Read more

I spent a very inspiring day at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show today.  My feet are still aching, but when I got back and downloaded my photographs, it was clear that the M&G Garden had a struck a chord with me this year as I went back three times! Read more