So Hugh and I have been scouring the countryside looking for more scrummy plants to include in Floral and Hardy's Back-to-Back "Urban Hideaway" garden. We've done well but I guess we knew there were always going to be a few gaps which will just have to be filled nearer the time of the build. Right from the outset, we were advised by previous successful Tatton garden builders that we'd always need twice as many plants as initially thought. That's potentially a lot of plants for a 6m x 4m area! And they've got to look comfortable, not all scrunched up next to each other fighting for space.
Having never built a garden at an RHS show before, it's difficult to know what's waiting for us. Hope for the best, expect the worst!
The Show gardens started their build yesterday and if today's weather is anything to go by, they must be cursing.... and sopping wet! Talk about stair rods! With luck and a following breeze at our back, all this rain will have softened the ground for when the Back-to-Backs start their build next weekend. By which time of course, the sun will be shining on the righteous ....! Here's hoping.
'Til next time.
HIL PINNOCK