Wednesday, 26 May 2010

Chelsea flower show - the same old thing!

It's that time of year again, the Chelsea flower show. Once more we have too much repetitive television coverage with the same old presenters showing the same old garden designers and growers as they have done for the past goodness knows how many years. Some of the presenters probably know as much about gardening as my big toe and are only there for decoration, and aren't they patronising! They speak to the watching audience as if we're all numpties who know nothing.
Am I the only person who finds this tedious and boring. Why can't we see more of the plants and less of these 'personality presenters'? Every year the garden designers come up with what look like the same gardens as the previous year and when we are told the cost of them, it goes into thousands of pounds and well out of reach of ordinary individuals like you and me.
It is all so false too because we could never replicate a lot of these gardens as they have spring flowering plants blooming alongside those that flower in autumn. Nature made plants to flower at different times of the year and to flourish in different environments for a reason and Chelsea was not that reason.
Ah well! On Friday I will be taking out my wallflowers that have now finished flowering and putting in a perennial osteospermum, a few garden pinks, planting out the sunflowers and perhaps some californian poppy seeds.
It may not be a Chelsea show garden but it's all my own work and I enjoy it (so do the birds)!

3 comments:

  1. I never cared for prissy presenters nor fake and expensive gardens. Aren't you glad you live in the real world grandma? Me too. :)

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  2. I think you're being a bit harsh there. The television industry provides important employment for these vacuous untalented people who would otherwise be on the dole! :D

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  3. I'm glad I live in a real world with real flowers, a few real weeds, snails, birds and squirrels! As for the 'vacuous untalented' people, I had a lot of those on my caseload when I was working and I'm darned if I could get them on telly or even in a job! Most of them thought they had 'a right' to be kept by the rest of us!

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