GARDENERS WORLD LIVE 2013

Hi BA, lovely photos, I really wanted to get some geums but just couldnt decide on which one and the one that I was looking for 'flames of passion' (which I had seen when browsing the 'net') I couldnt see so I didnt get any in the end :)

BA, Who needs to travel miles to these shows when people like you post such super blogs? Well worth the effort you've put in. :)
We also rescued an Acer a couple of years ago, I only hope it doesn't grow as large as the one who posted here, or we'll have problems.
Thanks for the 'free' visit to the show!

Thanks Daylily, very frustrating, have you thought of buying on line?:-)

Thanks Waddy, I kept mine in a pot for years, then, when I moved here I released it to the wild. It's only a tiny, delicate tree, takes no light and did you know you can prune acers? Some of the healthiest ones I've seen have twice yearly haircuts! Not tried it my self though:-)

Many thanks for all these fab photos and the tour of the show. Love those sink gardens and the acers, all very beautiful!

Fantastic blog Ba. Its all lovely, the sink gardens, the verbascums are great, all of it really. Well done on putting on a great show of photos.

That hypertufa gardenlooks interesting, a moveable feast?

Thanks for the armchair tour Ba xxx

Hi BA yes I have looked in the past and have seen them on Plantagogo so will have to have another look :-)

Lovely tour with out leaving the house thank you for posting all the those photo,s .

Lovely and interesting blog BA, thank you for thinking of
us all and sharing your visit.

I hate to think of those books getting wet ! Even if
they were old stock.

I have tried that Lysimachia and it is definitely not hardy, which is a shame because it is rather special. Thanks for a lovely blog, great pictures. :O)

Hi BA,
I see what you mean about spotting totally different things at the same show. Its great that we all notice different stuff. I didn't spot that lysimachia but must confess to picking up the astrantia you liked Gill Richardson. Also I didn't know we had a geum grower on Goy now in the form of redirtrog, so that's another good thing to come out of your blog! Thank you- really enjoyed it.

Thanks BA I had no idea I could prune my Acre, without doing any harm. I had thought I might have to dig it up and relegate it to a large pot, now I can leave it exactly where it is. :)

Thanks for sharing with us BA - your effort to post is much appreciated!!
There are some lovely gardens and plants there - my favs is the troughs - I've a few new ones on the go and can't wait til they fill up. Polystyrene does as good as hypertufa, much lighter and easier to move about!
My local nursery were at Chelsea and Gardening Scotland and he was telling me how difficult it was this year - plants were very poor or not at all in a lot of cases.
There was probably lots of old reliable varieties of plants at many a show this year!

Thankyou Louisa and Cinders, I thought some of you would like the sink gardens, even I was impressed. I made a hypertufa sinky thing many moons ago, it was so heavy it needed two big men to move it ....well, that was my excuse:-))

Hi Pam \0/ you're welcome, how are you?:-))

I've bought plants from Plantagogo Daylily, always pleased:-)

You're welcome Kidsgran, thank you:-)

Dianne, my daughter worked in the library service a while back, she was disgusted with the waste of books. They were got rid of for no apparent reason. No wonder local councils are strapped for cash:-(

I feared as much Oliveoil, I have seen seeds for sale on Ebay, wondered whether to have a go:-))

Thank you Poppylover, I'm envious of your Gill Richardson. I'll have to google it and if it flowers forever I'll buy some online:-))

Waddy, if you look at my blog 15 May 2010, its pics of a visit to Fourseasons garden which has hundreds of acers, all pruned regularly, some are even cloud pruned!:-)

Hi Scottish, do you paint some sort of effect on the polystyrene? Where do you get appropriately shaped stuff? A lot of the people I spoke to had to change their planting plan too. There's a reason why the old favourites became favourites .... they're reliable:-))

Did a blog on doing mine BA - take a look. I've made around 4 of them and they all look great.
Butchers, fish-shops and the likes usually have them. They wash out easily. I got a couple of mine from Morrisons too. Vets also use them - particularly vet practices who service farms. Dare I say it - the semen used to artificially inseminate the cows gets transported in the boxes!

http://www.growsonyou.com/scottish/blog/22060-alpine-trough

Lovely photo's Ba.sorry you were a bit disappointed this year..it all looks lovely to me.. glad you still managed to enjoy your day..:o).sending you a PM ..

Scottish I've had a look, they're brilliant! Now are you sure I can't get pregnant from those vet boxes?:-)))

Thanks Bloomer, I make a point of enjoying things ... I just like to moan:-))

Now there's a though BA...... You'd be worth a fortune if you did ;-)

In many ways Scottish:-))

I like the show but the venue is terrible when looking at the outside exhibits its like being on a trading estate,and the walk from train to show halls is like a long departure lounge walk at Birmingham airport.There are some lovely parks around Brum,whats wrong with those?what a contrast to the Cardiff spring show set in Bute park between the castle and the river.Bute park for ever NEC never again,by the way I am not Welsh, Black Country to the core

Hi Dandlyon, It was brilliant when I first went, a massive show, miles of marquees and wonderful show gardens. I hope it improves. This and Malvern are the only shows I can get to:-)

Thank you for posting, I love the Birmingham library show!
Last year I went there and the library was in constuction, they finished it fast!
All the city center was adorned with flowers, along the riverside and in the squares and streets, beautifull!

That exhibit really stole the show Lia. Unfortunately many libraries are closing here in order to save money, but I think it is very important to have libraries even if most people have the internet etc:-)