It can be an abrupt end to the Chelsea Flower Show, when after months of work, sweat and sometimes tears, the gardens are dismantled within days. The area is grassed over so efficiently that it’s hard to believe that anything was there before, so it’s great to see a garden that I came to know quite […]
The Cloudy Bay Discovery Garden at the 2013 Chelsea Flower Show
After blogging about the progress of Andrew Wilson and Gavin McWilliam’s show garden for the past 10 weeks, the Chelsea Flower Show week has finally arrived and their garden was unveiled. What a transformation, from this rather scruffy patch of land just a few days ago to this beautiful space: Here’s Gavin doing a bit of tweaking before the […]
The Cloudy Bay Discovery garden at the 2013 Chelsea Flower Show – week 3
Nurturing the plants for the Show I’m celebrating May Day today with the 8th blog in the countdown to Andrew Wilson and Gavin McWilliams Chelsea garden, only three weeks to go now and the Show will be well under way. As you can imagine the plants are a vital part of a show garden, so […]
The Cloudy Bay Discovery Garden at the 2013 Chelsea Flower Show – week 7
Whether you’re thinking about designing your own little patch of garden or designing one for a client, the inspiration has to be the the starting point of the whole process. For their Chelsea Flower Show garden Andrew Wilson and Gavin McWilliam have a lot of inspiring material from the beautiful Cloudy Bay area of New Zealand, their […]