This year was no different, I was looking forward to going and made sure I had camera well charged and plenty of space on the memory cards as I knew many photographs would be taken. I took many photographs but what I want to do in this post is just focus on a few of the gardens.
There was one of the Fresh Gardens I was intrigued to see, The Cave Pavilion, designed by Sophie Walker and containing plants supplied by Crûg Farm Nursery, one of my favourite nurseries. The Fresh Gardens aim to be a bit different, and also are smaller and therefore easier as an entry level to the Chelsea Show garden world. The Cave Pavilion was based on a Wardian Case, the 19th century solution that plant hunters used to transport their discoveries back to the UK. The pavilion was aptly sponsored by The Garden Museum and aptly filled by Sue and Bleddyn Wynn-Jones as they are themselves highly regarded plant hunters.





Moving on now to the Best in Show designed by Luciano Giubbilei, the Laurent-Perrier Garden. The garden was planted in sections with clear clean lines making up rectangles and squares. When I visited the show on Wednesday my wise friend commented to me that it looked like a corporate garden, the sort of thing you would find in a courtyard of a large business.








I leave you with a shell encrusted dinosaur head......
