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Talkback: Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2011
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I bet no-one has thought to do a parasitic garden. I tend the Orobanche garden in the Bristol Botanic garden and find it so fascinating that I bore my friends by forever looking for broomrapes. They are as beautiful as orchids. A hemiparasitic garden could have the Indian paintbrush plant that grows all over the Rockies and the beautiful pedicularis species. Congratulations, James. I used to belong to the RHS but find the subscription a bit much nowadays - still read the mag. at the BG however. My garden and myself were profiled in it, many moons ago.
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happymarion - I do like your idea of a parasitic garden. Perhaps you could persuade the BBG to participate in a show?
Re your garden profile in The Garden - which edition? I regularly read your comments in these blogs & your garden sounds fascinating.
Having been to HC on Tuesday i have to admit to being a little disillusioned.....it was ok but i felt like i had paid over £30 to go to a garden centre, the whole thing seemed to be about selling.
Is it just me being cynical?
As to the catering, we took a picnic of homegrown salads etc and tap water but bought some rather delicious (Purbeck?) ice cream which at £2 was not too overpriced.
I did enjoy myself but when watching on tv i found myself wondering if i had been to the same show as everything looked so much better than in real life.
plus i brought 3 bottles of water and 2 bags of crisps; just over 7.50.....
what a joke.
however redundancy focusses the mind and we got our RHS membership with tesco vouchers and the 4 hour ticket. train tickets for us booked way in advance worked out at £16 as opposed to £44 so it could be done a bit cheaper but I'd rather look at lots of plants and gardens than stalls as i'm on a budget.
Well done to the Waitrose stand which was my stand out fave.