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Hampton Court Flower Show Part Four – more gardens … more nurseries … just more!

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Lilies, Peruvian (that’ll be Alstroemerias) and otherwise – and enough Gladioli to tickle Dame Edna – a riot of colour as we look back at RHS Chelsea Flower Show

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Lilies in the Great Marquee at the 2016 RHS Chelsea Flower Show - a grand stand exhibit put together by Cheshire Nursery, Harts in Congleton. A display of cut flowers in perfect condition (the chill week no doubt helped keep them at their peak). http://www.hartsnursery.co.uk/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/3338336/Gilded-lilies.html http://www.hwhyde.co.uk/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/11730860/The-trouble-with-lilies-fabulous-but-fickle.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXeTaB5M868 Gladioli, below, are making a comeback…

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A glance, gander and glimpse of Chelsea 2014

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What can I add to the sum of the coverage of this, the greatest flower show on earth? A  few photographs (and by my standards, a very few). An impression of the event, distilled from a tour yesterday evening.  A drop in the ocean really - a few gorgeous plants and planting combinations, a twist…

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