Early morning Iris

Understated Iris

Close up clematis

The Orchids

Despite being split and moving house, the orchids have survived and have burst into bloom - some nineteen flower heads at the last count.

Underwater magic?

The Cayman Islands staged this wonderful underwater reef garden, using plants all grown in UK at Newington Nurseries and everything else was sourced within the perimeter of M25. The backdrop is a composite photograph (from 300 images) of Little Cayman's Bloody Bay Wall, which is a world famous dive site. (The photo is said to be 1.7 gigapixels - how big is that!!!)
This display in the Great Pavillion, won a Gold medal in the floral category and the "President’s Most Creative Award".

Entente Cordiale

The medal winning anglo-french alliance.

Hot pinks

A rare wetland garden at CFS

This unusual garden combines English irises and American pitcher plants with many other bog plants. This is not just for Chelsea as the garden is going to Suffolk after the show. How exciting that we can plant the strangely beautiful sarracenia in British gardens.

Copper and glass

Early morning sun shines through the blue glass of this copper sculpture

Midnight colours!

More dark colours in the biker's garden 'Ace of Spades'. These zantedeschias have a unique mulch of nuts - the metal kind.

Monsters in the flower beds

The biker's garden was full of bike bits, including this lovely monster peering through the aquilegia.

Real flowers at CFS

There were plenty of iris in the planting schemes, but these alliums looked lovely among the grasses and the cornus.

Plasticine at CFS

At Chelsea Flower Show, James May made a plasticine garden, with a tree for all seasons in the centre. It was fabulous! And RHS gave him a plasticine medal. If this encourages more people into gardening, then maybe he deserves a real one too.

Spiral 3

This is a picture of Jeanne Argent's sculpture of Alice Through the Looking Glass and it can be found in the grounds of Guildford Castle near the Chestnuts, the house that Lewis Carroll leased for his six sisters after their father died in 1868.
Through the Looking Glass was published in 1871 as a sequel to Alice in Wonderland. Through the looking glass, Alice finds a book of poetry, which includes Jabberwocky, plays chess against the Red Queen, and meets many other characters.

Alice through the Looking Glass in the grounds of Guildford Castle, near where Charles Dodson (aka Lewis Carroll) lived.

Denbies, Surrey

At last, after three years, our Meconopsis 'Lingholm' is flowering. The long - about 60cm, stem pushed up from the leaves, which as usual are breaking in half, and this lovely flower is emerging.

Clocks