I had a lovely afternoon at the Tatton flower show this afternoon with my friend. The last time it’ll be in this location until 2027! I only bought one plant as I didn’t really want to carry much – a hardy Salvia. I took lots of pictures and here’s some of them.
It’s a few years since I’ve been to this flower show for several reasons including lockdowns. When I got up this morning it was raining so much I was regretting having got the tickets because I thought the rain would spoil it. Fortunately, however, by the time we set off it had really cleared up so although muddy we didn’t get very wet. There were lots of gardens to see, show gardens, school ones and various new exhibits such as the long borders and I liked the vast majority. Also the amazing floral marquee. I didn’t buy a single plant but did take a lot of pictures some of which are below
Yesterday, Daddy, Mum and I went to the RHS Tatton Park flower show for the day. It was quite a wet day, although this is not a complaint as its much more preferable than a hot day for me looking at gardens. The floral marquee was bigger than ever and had lots of amazing colourful flowers. The gardens: show gardens, back-to-back and school ones were mostly lovely and I took some pictures which are below. I would say, however, that finding the show gardens especially is difficult as they are dotted about all over. I think we did see them all. Interestingly, on the BBC coverage of the show Monty Don said the back-to-back gardens haven’t been at the show for 3 years which would explain why we couldn’t find them last year, I just thought we had somehow missed them. I didn’t buy anything at the show, I found a gorgeous rose called Nostalgia, cherry red petals on the outside and white in the middle. They didn’t have any at the show for sale, but I got one on the way home at Fryers Garden Centre in Knutsford.
Here are some of my pictures:
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