Showing posts with label Chelsea Flower Show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chelsea Flower Show. Show all posts

Friday, July 1, 2011

Garden Design RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2011

Awarded Best Artisan Garden - RHS Chelsea 2011
Designed by Jihae Hwang (Muum), 'Emptying One's Mind' -- 'Hae - Woo- So'
represented a true first for the Chelsea Flower Show, a traditional Korean toilet.
The design worked around the concept of 'a place where you empty your mind' - which can also refer to a traditional-style Korean outhouse.
The charming, rustic building was surrounded by a landscape of herbaceous wildflowers & perennials, with lilac and camellia shrubs and a Magnolia denudata tree. Ferns, herbs and climbing vines added a lush, woodland ambiance to the setting.
The garden design's environnmental aspects included a half-basement accessed at the back to compost human waste for fertilizer. To walk the pathway, one experienced being refilled by the serene surroundings of flora, together with rock walls that gave the structure stability.
Sponsored by:
Suncheon Bay Garden Expo 2013 - Gwangju City, South Korean;
and Korean Cultural Centre UK

Monday, June 27, 2011

Ravishing Raymond Evison Variety: Clematis Josephine










Under Construction









Yet another Gold awarded to Raymond Evison Clematis  in 2011 -- Chelsea Flower Show.

That's Gold every year since 2003.  Sublime Clematis 'Josephine' represented but one outstanding variety among many.

Evison display in bounteous bloom.

An urn formed the centerpiece of the design,

While a tunnel Allée of draped and flowing vines invited you to walk through the exhibit.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

100,000 Flowers Thailand Exhibit: Chelsea Flower Show





The petals of more than 100,000 flowers were used to compose the elements of a dramatic exhibit mounted by...

Nong Nooch Tropical Botanic Garden

Brilliant! Winner of Gold at ...
The Chelsea Flower Show!

the captivating design brought together cultural elements in the manner of Thai flower arranging.


A stunning sight to behold.

Overview of the lavishly colorful, vibrant exhibit.

'The Temple of the Dawn'

Thai Shadow Puppets - Fantastic Thailand Exhibit (Photos © Alice Joyce)

More horticultural displays -- Raymond Evison's Clematis 

And...

David Austin Roses  

in The Great Pavilion at Chelsea 2011
Look for more Show Gardens, Art and Design Trends to appear in the days ahead.
There is nothing quite like the Chelsea Flower Show!

Monday, June 6, 2011

David Austin Roses New Introductions: Chelsea Flower Show







David Austin Rose Gardens

Albrighton, Wolverhampton,

England.








'Wollerton Old Hall'
A new rose named for a beautifully designed & planted Arts & Crafts-style English garden, a favorite of mine.
Do visit should you be traveling round Shropshire.

These brilliant new rose varieties were introduced by David Austin Roses at the Chelsea Flower Show 2011.
I'll admit to being more than partial to Austin's 'English Roses' .. with their lovely flower forms and heady fragrances.

'William and Catherine'
Photos: David Austin Roses

'Queen Anne'

'Fighting Temeraire'
Look for an upcoming post on the David Austin Roses' display in the Pavilion at Chelsea!

Fantastical Irish Sky Garden: Chelsea 2011


Largest ever show garden: Fantastical realm created by Diarmuid Gavin for Chelsea 2011

Irish Sky Garden


Thursday, June 2, 2011

Brilliant! Best Show Garden - Chelsea 2011





RHS Chelsea Flower Show: A Gold for designer Cleve West and Best Show Garden award!

Monday, May 30, 2011

San Francisco to London: The Chelsea Flower Show


Alluring, perfectly grown Alliums & Eremurus
(I believe the display pictured to be Devine Nurseries of East Yorkshire)

It's official: I've been quoted by The Bad Tempered Gardener herself: Anne Wareham
stating, in essence, that other flower shows pale in comparison with the glorious horticulture and panache of the Chelsea Flower Show.

Home... after two weeks in England, planned around an invitation to attend Chelsea's Press Day.

There's much to share, taking in the countryside, too: All to appear in the days & weeks ahead.

You'll find a special horticultural highlight from Kevock Garden Plants 
...posted on my web site: Alice's Garden Travel Buzz ...
It's a rarity I've never before encountered.