These are blog posts that Pip Probert has made.
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After submitting plans late last year for three gardens at various shows in 2008, and being accepted with a Chic Garden at Chelsea called Green Living, a Back to Back at Tatton called Time out, and a Show Garden also at Tatton called Aqualife – this year is already very busy. So far I have mostly been planning the gardens, arranging deliveries and materials with sponsoring companies, and choosing all the materials and matching products / props, and scheduling the works with my team
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Things are very busy on the show garden front. We are getting ready to leave for Chelsea, and packing all our tools. This promises to be a very challenging project, as we have already had various problems to overcome. I think that this year is going to be a difficult one in terms of planting, as the weather is not helping us produce show standard plants. I have had to substitute a rather large number of Alliums for the show, and completely change the scheme for my living roof. I am also having problems on the Sponsor front, due to credit crunches, which I imagine is a problem for a lot of exhibitors. But I am sure that everything will come together once we get down there
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Well I have finally got back on top of everything after my stay in London. I built my first garden at the Chelsea Flower (Urban Category), and received a Bronze Medal, which I am extremely proud of.
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Well, we start on site at Tatton Park next weekend. I have already been to Tatton Park twice in the last few weeks, just to have a walk around the site, and get a feel for where my gardens will be.
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I realised last night, as we were told it was definately time to leave the show ground, that I hadn't written a posting for a long time. Therefore not telling the story of the construction so far
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This year has been an amazing one for me! Not only did I receive a Bronze Medal for my first Urban Garden at Chelsea. But I built my biggest and best (if I say so myself) garden at Tatton Park
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Hello again! It's that time of year when us northern gardeners start getting excited over having the chance to walk around Tatton Park. Enjoying the beautiful scenery and weather (well fingers crossed), gorgeous gardens and powerful statements made by the stunning plants. It will come as no shock to hear that as designers we have been planning our Tatton gardens for months, and now I can't believe how near the show really is!
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Part of me is envious of the Show Gardens starting to build this weekend, as I am normally there, first in the queue to get in! Yet the other part is quite happy that we have another week to just finalise any last minute details and get prepared to take the garden to Tatton
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Today was the first time we actually stood on our plot. Looking around the site, there is already lots of activity and I got the feeling it is going to be a fantastic show. There are lots of familiar faces looking very fresh and raring to go. We have scraped the surface layer off our plot and marked out ready for tomorrow. Today has mostly been putting the finishing touches together on certain parts of the scheme ready for loading the vehicles for tomorrow. I have just finished putting the wood into the van and packed the pick up with tools ready for a very early start tomorrow. I am constantly keeping an eye on the plants and Cathrine (my supplier) is doing her normal, fantastic job of sending me photos of all the plants so I really can keep tabs on everything whilst at the show
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The start of the build always feels like you can't really do much, or that you are not really going as fast as you would like - but in fact you are getting all the really important and necessary things done. The things that you won't even see, but they have to be there
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