Not all nurseries and gardens take part, some choosing to take their plants away, particularly if they are stock plants rather than sale items. However for those that do sell off it can be a frantic affair with the plant buying public all desperate for a bargain.
Some show gardens were kept pristine that day and did not participate in the sell off...
Whilst others did...
Although we did buy one plant - a Kalopanax septemlobus from Paul Hervey-Brookes Brand Alley garden, we choose to watch the proceedings rather than get caught up in them and it was quite good fun, seeing people almost fighting over the bargains, snapping up plants and flowers to allow them to take home a little bit of Chelsea!
Meanwhile, the plant sell off frenzy carried on...
Bottoms up!
Must get that bargain plant!
As the visiting public gore at the displays, the gaps reveal...
It's pack up time!
And the sell off went on right until the very end...
As mentioned before, not all gardens were torn apart that day. Some were kept pristine, set for more careful packing up later to be ready to go to its new home...