These are the final photos we took of the event including the bits and bobs that didn't really fit in the other parts of the report.
To start off, probably the weirdest of all the gardens was the 'Honey, I've shrunk the garden' which featured a giant sculpted worm, and a lego character gardener. Being the proud owners of a wormery and fully appreciating all worms in our garden for soil fertility and chicken snack food, we thought this garden should feature in the report somewhere. So here it is...
After we saw this garden we spotted the GW team doing a bit of filming for tonight's show.
Over on the edible patches were some tasty looking cucumbers....
There was a big presence of the UK Cucumbers growers society (genuine society) who were on hand following the e-coli outbreak in mainland Europe. There was also the UK Tomato Growers association, who were running a competition to name a new variety of tomato which was shaped like a love heart. It was very cute. We tasted it and it was very sweet, just like the concept, and we entered the name 'Bingham' after Amy's surname. It's quite a bouncy name and sounds like a variety of tomato or soft fruit.
We are always trying to make the garden more approachable to living wildlife. This display by the RSPB showed how easy it was to make a multi-storey hedgehog/insect hide using everyday bits and bobs..
To finally conclude our whole report. We are going to revisit the show gardens where two more really caught our eye.
This hobbit hole style garden called 'Naturally Playful' was quite innovative and interesting...
This garden called 'Remember the Dream' by MacMillan Cancer Research was rather inspiring. It had beautiful pink obelisks which reminded us of Rapunzel's tower and a small pool too...
The garden was a real nice touch, and deserved it's high accolades. It wouldn't be fair not to include this garden following the support we got when Amy's mum was diagnosed with cancer a few years ago. Any mention, large or small will hopefully spread the underlining message...
Well, that pretty much rounds up our four part report. Remember, that parts 1, 2 and 3 can be found directly beneath this post on the homepage.
We had such a great time and we hope you enjoyed reading about it.
Martin and Amy
Wow, looks like you had a fab day! So much to see! I must go myself one of these years...
ReplyDeleteI am envious. Thanks for sharing your photographs. I know what I will be doing this evening. Instead of a DVD movie, I will be watching this with some homemade popcorn.
ReplyDeleteI especially liek the RSPB Beastie motel, something I'd love to make if I ever had a huge garden space - I don't think my Dad would appreciate me building on on his allotment space, esp as there are so many natural beasty hide-outs about.
Thanks again. Looking forward to your other installments.
Whoops noticed this was your final installment, better catch up with the others!
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