What larks! I do love a few days at the #chelseaflowershow.
This year I was enormously complimented to be invited to judge the floristry of #chelseainbloom so I headed up to London Town on Sunday for the judges' dinner and a quick scoot around the show gardens before press previews on Monday.
Monday morning saw me out of the hotel (thank you @TheRHS for putting me up at the Premier Inn in Earl's Court for a couple of nights) bright and early and in the show ground much too eager to wait and have breakfast first.
And for the next several hours I had a ball, seeing the planting, being inspired to add new plants to the list, chatting to some friends, congratulating others - especially Naomi Slade who designed and built the #floodresilientgarden (with a tiny bit of help last weekend from my seventeen year old who had some pretty invaluable work experience there.) I shopped at @niwaki and I tried on jewels worth many thousands (see the #Boodles jewels part of the clip.) Fabrizio bought a hat and talked wild orchids. I posed in a flower crown and gave lovely Derry Watkins of Special Plants nursery, a neighbour who has a gorgeous treasure trove of plants she grows and sells just north of Bath.
By 3pm I was ready for a lie down so thank goodness we underlings were chucked out before the arrival of the new patron of @TheRHS our very own King Charles. So my pearls and I retired for a lie-down and to watch our lad helping planting having been filmed the previous weekend and having his 15 seconds (or possibly a bit less) of fame on the telly that evening.
Tuesday had me up early again and off to judge the amazing entries into #chelseainbloom - no time to film this time, we were hard at work and seriously concentrating so that when we chose The Conran Shop they were considered by all worthy winners.
Finally, slightly reeling from information overload and general noise I headed through the rain for a little swish down the road on the 22 bus. And now, back to cutting wedding flowers in the rain it does all feel as though it was a bit of a dream.
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21 май 2024
