Chelsea Flower Show Garden

The exhibits will include various "spiky plants and foliage", said a spokesman for the garden centre, including phormiums, cordylines and astelias. Fencers Ben Peggs and Marcus Mepstead compete in the unlikely setting of a garden centre. Peggs and Mepstead fought among the sword-shaped plants at a Hillier Nurseries centre in Romsey, Hampshire, which will create a fencing-related display for the insurers at this year's Chelsea Flower Show.

Quite a few show gardens came across as show off gardens to me. . As a designer I like to see realistic gardens that people could actually use and enjoy. Only criticism is the ideas used in the show gardens always seem a year behind Chelsea. Wish Malvern show gardens could take a risk and be more forward thinking rather than retrospective in their design. It’s difficult for me to do the gardens justice as I only saw them on tv but I did get the feel it was Disney planting and canopy galore. I don’t think fashion is that important, but when I last went there did not seem to be that much to look at, the standard of presentation was a bit off and time for time I got more out of Chelsea. This Chelsea the crowds were so ridiculous and since the RHS does not seem to have a clue how to handle them, then I think the only recourse is to stop in London overnight and arrive early. But the actual Malvern show is so much more relaxed than the frantic nature of Chelsea....

Chelsea is a long way off

Mr Purkiss suggested that traders could sponsor flower beds. Coun Rich Pitts said: “One of my ideas to raise the profile of Marlborough was to gave a show garden, ultimately at Chelsea, although we are probably not ready for that yet.”

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