Hampton Court 2000
This trip was to check out the Hampton Court Flower Show, in
order
to see if this might be worthwhile as a tour for next year. Well,
I think I can safely say that I was indeed impressed with the show and
feel it would make a wonderful tour. Not only was the show very good from the standpoint of floral displays, garden
displays and booths - there were I hear around 800!, but with a phyto sanitary certificate
in hand, you will also be able to take home some of the plants as each
display was selling them!
The Hampton Court Flower Show was also a judged show with
special
Embroidered framed Tudor Rose Awards given to the best Gold Medal Exhibits in the Floral
Marquee, the Show Gardens and Water Gardens. New this year were the Hanging Baskets and
Window Boxes, taken out of the Chelsea Flower Show, and Garden Courts - ideas for small
spaces.
The British Rose Festival had a full marquee and national
collections
were shown in the Plant Heritage marquee.
So, in the meantime, please enjoy what I have put together from
a
short trip over July 2000 and look forward to the tour that I will
put together for next year! This is by no means all of the pictures
I took ... I have to leave something for you to look at for those gardens
I plan on including in the tour!
Hatfield
House and Gardens
I have included pictures of the house, the gardens, some wonderful rattan cloches and of
course another unique bench that I saw. This garden will be in my tour for 2001 so I don't
want to give too much information away on it!
Beth Chatto Garden
I have included just four pictures of these wonderful gardens, one of the nursery and the
last one of Beth, who I hope will forgive me for taking the top off the picture in my
haste to take it! This will be another garden for our tour 2001.
Hyde Hall
The garden continues to be a work in progress but has much to offer
even at the present time...I have included pictures of the house so you can see how plain
it was plus some of the surrounding gardens. Being at the top of the hill offered a
fantastic view of the surrounding countryside.
Hampton Court Flower Show
Needless to say, I took many pictures and had a hard time deciding which ones to put up on
the site.
Nigel Colbourne
We had the opportunity to listen to Nigel as he went through a slide presentation of
plants from all over the world followed by a question and answer session. Of course I
introduced myself and said I appreciated him including Canada in his presentation! then
asked if I could take his picture!!
The Gardens, St. Paul's Walden Bury
Now this is a garden you either like or don't! It is a very formal woodland garden, with
temples, statues and ponds that have not changed since the 18th century.
The Gardens of The Rose, St. Albans
Headquarters of the Royal National Rose Society
This garden contains one of the best and most important collections of roses in the world.
There are something like 30,000 roses.
St.
Albans is where I stayed this time.
Hope you enjoyed this quick little tour and maybe there is enough
here
to entice you into joining me next year! I think I have picked out
some
fabulous gardens and will soon that this tour up on the site! Do
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