My Garden

Pheweeee!  Stop the world, I want to get off! 

It was true, all the pearls of wisdom, advice, warnings and predictions.  And a real rollercoaster ride of a journey.  But for Floral & Hardy's first ever RHS show experience, I can honestly say that it went really quite well, no major disasters other than Hugh's truck breaking down off-site with him in it, mid-afternoon of the day before judging with still half the planting to finish

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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!

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Well, it’s June 18th and the countdown has begun in earnest! 

In just 25 extremely short days, Floral and Hardy will begin the build on its first ever Back-to-Back show garden at RHS Tatton.  Nerves?  Us?  No, never!  We love new experiences and challenges

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