tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post7693064588410499420..comments2024-01-31T04:09:28.704+00:00Comments on SILVERTREEDAZE: AS I SAID TO THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSESPlant Mad Nigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051715161395516677noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-91732341861791296022009-12-28T18:15:33.310+00:002009-12-28T18:15:33.310+00:00As always an excellent posting.The
way you write ...As always an excellent posting.The<br />way you write is awesome.Thanks. Adding more information will be more useful.<br /><br /> <a rel="nofollow">Bathmate</a>bathmatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08828026417866333107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-29587852928048458762009-05-26T16:13:08.400+01:002009-05-26T16:13:08.400+01:00Another fine and spirited bit of Colborning. It wa...Another fine and spirited bit of Colborning. It was a great pleasure to view you and the PG on Royal Duty: both looking terribly smart. (A marked contrast to your picture of the esteemed PG whose High-Viz vest makes her look like a council inspector).<br />I felt a bit like that gingery Royal Correspondent (whose name escapes me) about whom HRH was extremeley impolite. Her Majesty also admired the naturalistic swathes of Gerberas - but I doubt that she had much idea what they were.<br />Congratulations of your double award triumph.James A-Shttp://web.me.com/blackpittsgardennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-20554676793292241652009-05-23T21:21:57.327+01:002009-05-23T21:21:57.327+01:00This made me laugh and laugh, perhaps unlike EB? I...This made me laugh and laugh, perhaps unlike EB? I love your captions, which have just the right degree of extreme naughtiness, particularly the Bloms Bulbs one which is still making me giggle. <br /><br />I love hearing about everyone's different Chelseas, but judging sounds like hard work indeed. And also showing round HRHs which I think I would find stressful just because I would almost automatically start swearing (my mind has a tourettes-like ability to mess things up for me when i most need it not to)<br /><br />I too thought James is looking particularly spiffy and I suspect it's because he has been having plastic [coral] surgery; he can try to hide it, but the truth will out, you knowemmathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03914805260939907394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-8428027338269095232009-05-22T15:44:55.803+01:002009-05-22T15:44:55.803+01:00Aargh, now I feel a complete cow. I tend to write,...Aargh, now I feel a complete cow. I tend to write, just as I speak, ie rather thoughtlessly at times. But I did mean it that not being dazzled or sycophantic makes a good judge, commentator and so on. (And thank you for the comment on my blog)EBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09405771860220362327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-34622703808591592322009-05-22T14:07:46.714+01:002009-05-22T14:07:46.714+01:00Martyn, I could have done with some London Pride a...Martyn, I could have done with some London Pride and would have swapped almost everything to enjoy the company you had in that pub. The grass is always greener, I guess!<br /><br />EB - sorry if you find my words ambivalent. They aren't always meant to be, but one writes in sickening haste, because of time pressures, and sometimes it all comes out a bit wrong. <br /><br />My negative start, on this post, is partly to neutralise the excessively enthusiastic gush, from some of my dearest colleagues and friends, and is, of course, partly tongue in cheek. One of my biggest problems with Chelsea is that it drags me out of the garden when the garden needs me most.<br /><br />Plastic coral was good because real coral would have contravened conservation law and would also, I suggest, have been unacceptable.<br /><br />Oh, and one more thing: I didn't pay tribute to everyone, particularly exhibitors, who actually make Chelsea happen. Having built an exhibit there myself, I know exactly how exhausting the whole thing is. They have my undying admiration.Plant Mad Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051715161395516677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-78385868596259254732009-05-22T11:29:16.672+01:002009-05-22T11:29:16.672+01:00The thing about this blog is that almost every sen...The thing about this blog is that almost every sentence could be taken as either straightly meant, or not. Plastic coral?<br /><br />It seems a pity in a way that someone who holds positions so many gardeners would covet should feel so ambivalent about them, but perhaps this is just that critical detachment that means you're the right person to be doing them.EBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09405771860220362327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-46542382862852616122009-05-22T11:02:22.339+01:002009-05-22T11:02:22.339+01:00Nigel, I'm extremely jealous that everyone else ha...Nigel, I'm extremely jealous that everyone else has had a much swankier Chelsea than me. After booting out time at 3pm on Monday I simply retired to the pub with Matt Biggs, Toby Musgrave and Jerry Harpur for a few pints of London Pride. When, on when, will I ever be allowed to hob nob with royalty and get to stay behind for the Queen's visit?Martyn Coxhttp://martyncox.biz/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-37103733714394707942009-05-22T09:00:55.431+01:002009-05-22T09:00:55.431+01:00So, you're not that keen on Chelsea then, are you?...So, you're not that keen on Chelsea then, are you? ;-)<br /><br />BTW congrats on winning two (2!!) prestigious Fork 'n Monkey awards!Yolanda Elizabet Heuzenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02506031220151023088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-9895249093099680192009-05-22T07:10:53.910+01:002009-05-22T07:10:53.910+01:00Sounds tiring - but brilliant.
Congratulations ...Sounds tiring - but brilliant.<br /><br />Congratulations on everything - your work at Chelsea, buying a greenhouse, being invited to Singapore . . . imagine every day being like that!<br /><br />Special mention for the Photographer General too.<br /><br />LucyLucy Corranderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13743561298706555813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-31100476335794433452009-05-21T21:21:56.041+01:002009-05-21T21:21:56.041+01:00How wonderful that Victoria has a medal named afte...How wonderful that Victoria has a medal named after her!<br /><br />Kathleen Ferrier is my favourite soloist. (Though I'm confused what tense to use.)<br /><br />The very words 'Byrd' and 'Tallis' give me a jolt in the chest.<br /><br />Esther MontgomeryEsther Montgomeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05412078991551799972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-61939423971124642842009-05-21T17:45:12.529+01:002009-05-21T17:45:12.529+01:00It was my first visit ever on Tuesday and I loved ...It was my first visit ever on Tuesday and I loved it. The Telegraph and Laurent Perrier gardens don't grab me either - I've never really liked that kind of style, no matter how good it's executed. I've still to reveal my favourite garden over at mine, so I won't give the game away here ;)<br /><br />It was interesting to see how some of the gardens differed in their promise or non-promise on paper and how it sometimes translated to just the opposite in reality.<br /><br />I loved the Winchester Growers exhibit - the absolute highlight of the show in the Great Pavilion.<br /><br />And I got to sit in a show garden! For the ordinary punter like me that is tippitty top.<br /><br />Goodness! What a long comment - so sorry. Byeeee!VPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02732971362066784175noreply@blogger.com