Hampton Court Flower Show 2009

Gardeners World!

I didn't know you could grow cucumbers in hanging baskets.

The Real Hampton Court Flower Show. I was so happy that we got the right date this time because I had an amazing time. Even though it rained solidly all day. The gardens were very inspiring I had never been to a show like this the gardens and plants were perfect. I can't wait to see what Chelsea is like this year.

What the plot looks like at the moment.

All looks a bit muddy at the moment.

It looks like I might have moles. so this green thing is meant to deter them.

My sweet peas

Hampton Court Flower Show

A sea of roses, the smell was so strong you could smell it from the car park.

Do you see a flower show in these pictures? You won't because Hampton Court Flower Show isn't on in June, its in July.

We planned to go up to the Flower show, my mother had booked the tickets and told us when it was I had said its weird that gardeners world aren't covering the show this year they haven't mentioned anything about it. My mother said it must be because of the recession might be cutting back.

So in the month of June me, my mother and father got up very early and drove up to Hampton Court to beat the rush of people which would be attending the flower show. I won't lie we were a bit suspicious when we had no queues coming into the area. Also we did manage to park in the car park in the grounds, but instead of thinking what's going on? we congratulated ourselves on arriving so early so we could get such a good space. Ticket in hand we strolled off towards the palace and seeing that there were no directions to the flower show I went into the reception saying"hello we are here for the flower show can you tell us where it is" the reception looked at me for a while not saying anything, I thought they misunderstood so I said " we are here for Hampton court flower show its today" they said "what flower show" I said "the one we bought tickets for". And they said "do you mean the one that's on in July?" and then one of them went off and came back with a very large poster for the flower show which in large letters said JULY.

As we were there we made a day of it and got to see the palace, and because we were so early it was basically us for a long while without any other tourists, then we finished about 12 and decided to got to Kew aswell.

Plans

This was my first plan for this year. I have rearranged the paths because I kept loosing allot of soil to grow because when I previously had the path up against the fence instead of the middle I kept falling on to the soil and standing on some of the veg. I am also growing asparagus this year which I have positioned in the end beds this way I don't have move them and they are out of the way. Those little squares are meant to be salad boxes.
I have come up with a new plan. No more salad boxes, I have put them nearer the house so my mother uses the salad this year. And I plan to be growing more flowers as well as veg, for pollination also because I love flowers. So I am growing the flowers in the beds with the veg, like a potager.
New plan and this time I have gone all out and used colour! I have scrapped my potager, I have dedicated one bed to flowers which I have lupins poppy's and butterfly and bee attracting flowers. I still have flowers in the beds which have the tomatoes in because they are marigolds and are good for them. Another thing I have done have left two beds free in case I find something in a garden centre or someone gives me a veg plant I have somewhere to plant it.