RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2012
Sandy Felton takes a look at some of this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show highlights.
There is a lovely relaxed feel to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year which seems to have returned to its 'roots' of English urban gardening while at the same time still being able to lure us with the contemporary and the exotic.
Another great garden from designer Cleve West has once again won Best in Show and a Gold Medal at the 2012 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. (pictured left)
His delightful garden for sponsors Brewin Dolphin demonstrates the continuing popularity of topiary but as always with Cleve West there was just a twist of the contemporary to produce a 'formal and timeless garden, contemporary yet traditional.'
Sandy Felton takes an overview of some of the gardens set to inspire at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2012.We are at that period pre-Chelsea where the frisson of anticipation starts to get stronger and the video clips of the build-ups of various gardens go online. The press start paying a little more attention to gardening than they seem to do the rest of the year and we are treated to snippets of what this or that garden will look like.
There is usually a crop of 'trends' from those in the know and that word 'sustainable' seems to find its way into the vocabulary more than usual. However, one thing is constant – for the gardening public RHS Chelsea is the world’s greatest flower show and the annual event is awaited like no other.
Hillier Garden Centres in the South of England are set to host a unique form of community involvement this month. Several branches are linking up with sportsmen and women from their local fencing clubs to stage live displays of the dramatic Olympic sport among the summer bedding.The events are taking place to celebrate Hillier's Garden Exhibit 'Duel and the Crown' at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2012 in partnership with Beazley, sponsor of the British Fencing Team. There will be lunging and parrying on impromptu pistes in planterias at Hillier Bath, Braishfield, Eastbourne, Horsham, Newbury, Sunningdale and Winchester. There will also be have-a-go sessions for Hillier customers as well as displays by the experts.
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