JC Gardens & Climbing Frames fabulous play equipment
There’s even green roofs and green walls on this playhouse
De Wit make some of the sturdiest and best designed garden tools
Split oak woven oak garden fencing from sustainably managed UK plantations
This extraordinary carved chaise longue is eye catching but of dubious comfort
Who would think that string could be this lovely – Nutscene does!
Nutscene is managed and run by a team of women – it shows!
This National Trust shed cum log store is appealingly retro
Big news from Bosch is their cordless chainsaw – no petrol, no wires and self-lubricating
Air pots are big news with tree growers – as the fine roots make their way through the holes in the dimples they shrivel and self prune
Sparrow & Finch’s clever and attractive bean support
Oxford Planters have a magnificent range of top quality planters
Garden Brocante is always a treat to visit with its wonderful range of old garden tools
Garden Brocante has other garden ephemera too
Nitrile Gloves are the way to go and Keanegardeneur has a range worth investigating
This is some of the very prettiest of the metalwork on display at Chelsea
British Plant Nursery guide promotes British Nurseries and puts together ‘jolly jaunts’
Bulldog Tools Forge Garden deservedly won a gold medal
This beautifully realised garden didn't miss a trick!
I long for someone to start making galvanised water drums again!
It's hard to believe this is in a marquee in Chelsea and not down a country lane
The old bellows that would have been used for the forge
Apparently there may be a wheat shortage this year - might this be the answer?
Kirstenbosch did wonderful plantings against photographic backdrops
The proteas with Table Mountain in the backdrop whetted my appetite for my trip there in September
This giant steel and copper dragonfly hovered above a display of water plants
I'm not generally one for the Florists displays but these jockeys silks were eye catching
More floraljockeys silks
Saracenias are extraordinary and very photogenic plants
This was one of several impressively beautiful saxifrages
Trinidad & Tobago's Horticultural Society's display was one of the best of the exotic displays
Raymond Evison's clematis were a major feature with a magnificent display including a tunnel of clematis
There's a wonderful display of Lady's slipper orchids - apparently with the right conditions they are not hard to grow, but not a plant for the dry so
Avon bulbs always manage one of the best displays and this year is no exception despite the trying conditions
Jim Keelings gilded terracotta flame was an impressive centrepiece to the Hillier garden amongst orange-gold azaleas
Love this water feature - A sculptural and safe fountain in a garden for the blind
Planted walls appear in many of the gardens
Vertical water features are another popular element of urban gardens
There is clever word play with this bench in the Magistrates Garden
Water cascades quietly down a textured concrete panel in this garden
An attractive garden screen made from recycled timber
A window in a wall features a sill of shells
In the same garden coils of rope hold more shells
And continuing the theme in this garden mussel shells line a doorway
Why not see a few more modern gardens from some of the other shows.
