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Post by Jasmine on May 19, 2013 7:29:16 GMT
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Post by Auricula on May 19, 2013 7:32:08 GMT
Yes coverage is on at 5pm on BBC1 today - there are 15 programmes in all, + red button coverage  |
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Post by Jasmine on May 19, 2013 7:34:43 GMT
Yehh!  The good thing about watching it on telly is you get to see 'in' the gardens and you aren't looking at them through the crowds. |
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Post by Auricula on May 19, 2013 7:46:15 GMT
And your feet don't ache  |
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Post by Jasmine on May 19, 2013 7:48:09 GMT
...nor does it take 20 minutes to find the exit but you don't get to ride on the platform of a special Chelsea bus with the conductor either! |
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Post by Auricula on May 19, 2013 7:56:24 GMT
Nor do you get to spend 2 consecutive over nights on the Penzance / Victoria National Express coach  |
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Post by Jilly on May 19, 2013 9:33:50 GMT
I notice you haven't felt the urge to go on a coach trip, just for the ride since though Auricula I'll miss not seeing you 3, but I think you do get a better view of the gardens on TV, but they probably can't dedicate as much TV time as we would like to the pavillion. |
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Post by Rosefriend on May 19, 2013 9:50:00 GMT
Is there TV coverage during the days at some point perhaps??
RF
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Post by Auricula on May 19, 2013 10:15:08 GMT
Usually at lunchtime RosefriendI'll have you know Jasmine I am planning at least 2 trips this summer  |
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Post by Jasmine on May 19, 2013 10:27:57 GMT
That was Jilly - I said nuffink - I was remembering the camera incident  |
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Post by Auricula on May 19, 2013 10:40:11 GMT
Oops ::blush:: so it was Ooh yes, the camera It appears to be on at 12.30 - 1pm BST Rosefriend |
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Post by Jasmine on May 19, 2013 11:01:03 GMT
It wasn't me your Honour - I felt nothing - still feel guilty though!
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Post by Auricula on May 19, 2013 12:04:31 GMT
No need... but it was funny I wonder if PJ is remembering last May? |
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Post by Jasmine on May 19, 2013 14:29:42 GMT
Yes, I wonder, it was fun!
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Post by Jasmine on May 19, 2013 17:36:11 GMT
Enjoyed tonight's sneak preview. This is the one and only time I wouldn't mind being a member of the Royal Family - you could get in tomorrow and have a good look round!
Laurence L-B's gnome was very fancy! To be expected I guess!
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Post by andy on May 19, 2013 17:46:13 GMT
I went in 1983, I vowed never ever to go again due to the crowds. Ive stuck to my promise,
However, i have tickets for the Hampton court show in July....and this is a first for me !!!!!¬!
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Post by Auricula on May 19, 2013 17:46:50 GMT
Loved Lawrence's gnome - he really is a good artist. Chris Beardshaw's garden looked lovely.
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Post by Ladygardener on May 20, 2013 11:25:38 GMT
I watched the preview as well and really enjoyed it. There's always great anticipation with the Chelsea Flower Show. I'd love to be going along with Her Majesty tomorrow. Chris Beardshaws garden looked good but I'd like to see more, he does seem to have put a lot of emotion as well as effort into it and he spoke very honestly about his arthritis. I've got everything on series link I think so should'nt miss any of it. |
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Post by Jasmine on May 20, 2013 12:13:25 GMT
I've just seen today's lunchtime half an hour. I like the planting in Christopher Bradley-Hole's garden and I love the water feature in Ulf Nordfjell's garden. Looks like someone may have a full-time job for the week making sure nothing ends up in the water! Paul McKenna was a strange choice of celebrity to chat to  |
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Post by Rosefriend on May 20, 2013 12:18:51 GMT
I've just seen today's lunchtime half an hour. I like the planting in Christopher Bradley-Hole's garden and I love the water feature in Ulf Nordfjell's garden. Looks like someone may have a full-time job for the week making sure nothing ends up in the water! Paul McKenna was a strange choice of celebrity to chat to I've just watched it as well - a first time ever for me, here in Germany.. Loved the gardens and plants...great that we are all so different, makes for wonderful choices!! RF |
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Post by Jasmine on May 20, 2013 12:26:29 GMT
I'm so glad you're able to watch some UK programmes now Rosefriend. I'm looking forward to seeing Prince Harry's garden. Maybe he'll have visited today with his Grandmother! |
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Post by Rosefriend on May 20, 2013 12:28:18 GMT
I'm so glad you're able to watch some UK programmes now Rosefriend. I'm looking forward to seeing Prince Harry's garden. Maybe he'll have visited today with his Grandmother! Still got BBC on and heard that Harry will be there later with his grandmother - or have they been already?? RF |
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Post by Jasmine on May 20, 2013 12:33:06 GMT
Think they go in the afternoon Rosefriend - have to clear out the riff-raff celebrities first probably and give the place a once over! |
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Post by Jilly on May 20, 2013 12:41:08 GMT
I forgot all about the lunchtime show, still it should be on the i-player. Unless I'm very much mistaken B&Q were supplying the plants for Prince Harry's garden, there was quite a big display of plants used in that garden when I was in there on Saturday, it looked like it was mostly forget me nots There was one garden on last nights show that really appealed to me, but typically I can't remember which one it was, but I think it might have been the Christopher Bradley-Hole one Jasmine |
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Post by Jasmine on May 20, 2013 12:49:00 GMT
His is the garden with the burnt oak background and the blond oak pillars which make a walk way round the edge Jilly...I think...you know what's its like trying to remember whose garden is whose! Chelsea has just been on the local news as Roger Platts is a local man and has designed the one and only garden that looks at gardens at Chelsea over the past 100 years. Prince Harry's charity is called Sentebale, he founded it with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and the name means forget-me-not. Good choice of flower for this time of the year! |
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Post by Jasmine on May 20, 2013 12:52:17 GMT
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Post by Rosefriend on May 20, 2013 12:53:59 GMT
Glad someone can remember the names Jasmine - it's a wonder I remember mine these days... Which was the garden with the kids things and then the one with cottage garden flowers - actually quite liked that...a real mixup!!?? RF |
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Post by Jasmine on May 20, 2013 13:03:27 GMT
I can't remember the names of the designers of those gardens Rosefriend - I loved the planting in the cottage garden (was that the one where they said he used a cherry picker to look down so the plants could be placed in exactly the right place?) - I think it had the word 'Mind' somehow in its title |
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Post by Jasmine on May 20, 2013 13:09:36 GMT
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Post by Rosefriend on May 20, 2013 13:12:24 GMT
Some lovely plants there - he could give me any leftovers!! RF |
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