On Wed, 24 May 2006 22:30:14 +0100, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

The message
from Paul Corfield contains these words:

Perhaps someone needs to say to the BBC that they could provide those
programmes either as a DVD or via the Gardeners World site on "see it
again" player where the programmes stay for a week or so. The other
alternative would be for them to show them as Hour Long Specials when GW
is not broadcast over the height of the Summer.

I agree. The "red button" digital extra coverage is just superb,
exactly what I want to see about Chelsea, quite different from and
better than the main programmes IMHO. I hope they do make the digital
coverage available for everyone to watch.

I went to Chelsea today for the first time - boy do my legs ache.

Interestingly the RHS had a Chelsea 2006 DVD and Video on sale and Carol
Klein presents it. I didn't buy it as I took a large number of
photographs instead.

The highlights were

Chris Beardshaw's Garden and Andy Sturgeon's garden. Both delightfully
planted. I was less taken with the others to be honest. The small
courtyard gardens were also rather good.

Nearly bashed Charlie Dimmock with my backpack (!) and held back while
the royal procession of Joe Swift walked in front of me while queuing in
the "slow queue" for some of the show gardens.

The real highlight though is the Pavilion and some of the stands were
really fabulous. I have over 3 pages of plant names jotted down as
options for filling in the space in my garden - I'm so pleased I took a
notebook. Amazing displays of bulbs, herbaceous plants, violas and
pansies and clematis - the latter two stands were completely packed out.
The inventive matching of plants was like a tutorial for me - and I do
appreciate that you don't get them all flowering together in nature as
they do at Chelsea.

I was surprised at just how many languages I heard being spoken - people
clearly come from all over the world to visit. Not something I had
particularly thought about before but it makes sense given the status
and reputation of the show.

Overall most enjoyable and certainly very informative for a novice.

--
Paul C

"Bertie Doe" writes:

Is there an on-line site anywhere for air
plants?

The exhibit had http://www.airplant.be/ on its signage.

Anthony

Paul Corfield wrote:
Overall most enjoyable and certainly very informative for a novice.

Great report!

I used to go every year - until the crowds just got too great. I tried beig
tther when the gates opened. I tried evning ticktest. But eh place was still
wall to wall people ALL the time.

I might brave it again next year!

pk

wrote in message
"Bertie Doe" writes:

Is there an on-line site anywhere for air
plants?

The exhibit had http://www.airplant.be/ on its signage.

Thanks Anthony, phew, 50 of them! I'll get a book before I order.

Bertie

On Thu, 25 May 2006 21:12:01 +0100, "p.k."
wrote:

Paul Corfield wrote:
Overall most enjoyable and certainly very informative for a novice.

Great report!

I used to go every year - until the crowds just got too great. I tried beig
tther when the gates opened. I tried evning ticktest. But eh place was still
wall to wall people ALL the time.

I might brave it again next year!

I got there about 08.30 and was genuinely surprised to be able to get
round most of the show gardens with little crowding. It did get somewhat
silly later on as people ignored the one way system in the Pavilion.
It's also a good idea to hide when the BBC are filming or in live
broadcast - the place just stops.

I was anticipating it being far worse than it was so my stress levels
remained low.
--
Paul C

On Fri, 26 May 2006 00:30:16 +0100, Paul Corfield wrote
(in article ):
snip

I got there about 08.30 and was genuinely surprised to be able to get
round most of the show gardens with little crowding. It did get somewhat
silly later on as people ignored the one way system in the Pavilion.
It's also a good idea to hide when the BBC are filming or in live
broadcast - the place just stops.

I was anticipating it being far worse than it was so my stress levels
remained low.


Interesting you mention the time you arrived. One of the articles I read on
Chelsea advised people to go on public days, not members' days and to arrive
extremely early. We went on the first day last time we went and arrived as
the gates opened - the crowds were so awful that I said I really never want
to go again. Maybe if we do, we'll follow your example.

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
email address on web site

On Fri, 26 May 2006 08:59:06 +0100, Sacha Hubbard
wrote:

On Fri, 26 May 2006 00:30:16 +0100, Paul Corfield wrote
(in article ):
snip

I got there about 08.30 and was genuinely surprised to be able to get
round most of the show gardens with little crowding. It did get somewhat
silly later on as people ignored the one way system in the Pavilion.
It's also a good idea to hide when the BBC are filming or in live
broadcast - the place just stops.

I was anticipating it being far worse than it was so my stress levels
remained low.


Interesting you mention the time you arrived. One of the articles I read on
Chelsea advised people to go on public days, not members' days and to arrive
extremely early. We went on the first day last time we went and arrived as
the gates opened - the crowds were so awful that I said I really never want
to go again. Maybe if we do, we'll follow your example.

I suspect the weather may have had something to do with it. It was
overcast when I left home at 07.30. At Chelsea there were spots of rain
when I was looking at the first exhibits. It was lovely and sunny later.
I suspect that if it had been sunny early morning that the crowds may
have arrived in a different time distribution - i.e. more early on.
--
Paul C

"Sacha Hubbard" wrote in message
I'm sorry to rub it in to those who didn't see it but Carol Klein's
presentation on digital viewing in the Grand Pavilion, was an utter
delight.
snip
Some of the plants were mouthwatering and mostly, it was easy to identify
them. I
thought the Drosera from http://www.hampshire-carnivorous-plants.co.uk/
would
be very interesting to those who have problems with whitefly in
greenhouses.

Slightly OT, but the Hampshires webshop's growing conditions refer to 'a
cool greenhouse or a warm one'. Apart from the obvious, can anyone elaborate
on the difference between cool and warm?

Bertie

"Bertie Doe" wrote in message
...

"Sacha Hubbard" wrote in message
I'm sorry to rub it in to those who didn't see it but Carol Klein's
presentation on digital viewing in the Grand Pavilion, was an utter
delight.
snip
Some of the plants were mouthwatering and mostly, it was easy to
identify
them. I
thought the Drosera from http://www.hampshire-carnivorous-plants.co.uk/
would
be very interesting to those who have problems with whitefly in
greenhouses.

Slightly OT, but the Hampshires webshop's growing conditions refer to 'a
cool greenhouse or a warm one'. Apart from the obvious, can anyone
elaborate
on the difference between cool and warm?

Bertie

Cold or cool greenhouse = unheated, likely to be cold (possibly below zero
in winter)
Warm greenhouse = one in which the temperature is prevented from falling
below freezing, allows for a greater range of plants to be kept.
Hot house = a greenhouse where the minimum temperature is maintained high
enough to keep tropical plants and bankrupt the owner.

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)

"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message
"Bertie Doe" wrote in message

"Sacha Hubbard" wrote in message
I'm sorry to rub it in to those who didn't see it but Carol Klein's
presentation on digital viewing in the Grand Pavilion, was an utter
delight.
snip
Some of the plants were mouthwatering and mostly, it was easy to
identify
them. I
thought the Drosera from http://www.hampshire-carnivorous-plants.co.uk/
would
be very interesting to those who have problems with whitefly in
greenhouses.

Slightly OT, but the Hampshires webshop's growing conditions refer to 'a
cool greenhouse or a warm one'. Apart from the obvious, can anyone
elaborate
on the difference between cool and warm?

Bertie

Cold or cool greenhouse = unheated, likely to be cold (possibly below zero
in winter)
Warm greenhouse = one in which the temperature is prevented from falling
below freezing, allows for a greater range of plants to be kept.
Hot house = a greenhouse where the minimum temperature is maintained high
enough to keep tropical plants and bankrupt the owner.

Thanks Charlie
Keeping the greenhouse warm in Winter is going to prove too expensive. I
shall google around for a heater say, 100watts (I'm guessing) and build a
coldframe.

Bertie