Chelsea Flower Show Part 2

Please accept my apologies if this blog is rather photo heavy, but I wanted to cram in as many as possible!

The New Zealand Garden and the Cancer Research Garden both looked interesting from the back end, although not many people chose to view them from that aspect. From the front, the Cancer Research garden had a fairly brutal modernist look, with a rigid swimming pool as the central line. From the back, it looked far more gentle:















This garden sported some amazing hanging cylinders planted with primitive looking mosses and greenery:














At times of downpour, we were lucky enough to be just in the right place to duck into the main pavillion. The displays were many and varied, and some were simply eye-boggling.














I bought 7 packs of seeds from Jekka's Herb Farm: Red Orach, Golden Mustard, Painted Sage, Cardoon, Sweet Rocket, Bronze Fennel and Angelica. You can see the Cardoon in the picture below - the big grey-leaved plant to the left. Apparently you can eat the tips of the leaves in salad.
















We've got one of these on our kitchen windowsill:















There was so much more - the Alium Shubertii which looks like a sparkler, meeting the bloke from Fernatix, who carried on raving about ferns despite being obviously knackered, and the table in the Australian garden that had water flowing through it...