chelsea 2009

Trends:
Veg growing, raised beds and once again, low maintenance or could be fairly/low maintenance as more clients wish to spend time in the garden. In the real world, gardens on a budget.

Plants:
This year so far have been asked for deer, rabbit, horse and... HEDGEHOG resistant plants. Perhaps people are actually noticing the wildlife visiting their gardens and wish to limit the damage.

As ever though it will be the usual suspects, alliums, verbena bonariensis etc and anything which is 'low maintenance'. Think though there will be a blend of edible and ornamental planting to beds and borders.

Colours: Cool pallet to suit the mood.
Saying that, could be hot colours as a rebellion against the economic situation. (covering all bases here).

Designers/Peoples Award: No idea. Are there any names that spring to mind?

anything got's to be better than shades of different greens - beautiful but still nice to see flowers and colour. I think they're going to take after gardeners world and go more sustainable living. Veg & fruit I bet will dominate this year. Hopefully, with the way things are at the moment with the news, designers will really go for lots of colour to cheer everybody up.

By the way, I hope the RHS sort out the pricing structures to let mere mortals in and not just the well off. Actually, just been on their website and the tickets are £43 for Chelsea for the day. Maybe they could reduce their prices to help us with our sustainable living because the money saved could be bought for a bottle of wine thus helping out the vineyard growers, we could buy vegetables to grow on our vegetable patches, we could also buy fruit trees to help us offset our carbon footprints. We could maybe make it the RHS sustainable circle.

I hope no one picked up on the sarcasm in this reply - it really is the lowest form of wit!!!

Replies

Kerrie John-The garden design Co May 15, 2009 at 9:04pm

Trends:
Veg growing, raised beds and once again, low maintenance or could be fairly/low maintenance as more clients wish to spend time in the garden. In the real world, gardens on a budget.

Plants:
This year so far have been asked for deer, rabbit, horse and... HEDGEHOG resistant plants. Perhaps people are actually noticing the wildlife visiting their gardens and wish to limit the damage.

As ever though it will be the usual suspects, alliums, verbena bonariensis etc and anything which is 'low maintenance'. Think though there will be a blend of edible and ornamental planting to beds and borders.

Colours: Cool pallet to suit the mood.
Saying that, could be hot colours as a rebellion against the economic situation. (covering all bases here).

Designers/Peoples Award: No idea. Are there any names that spring to mind?
Graeme @ BGS May 16, 2009 at 10:08am

Look out for artificial lawns gaining more ground. Not too sure how the Lazy Lawn products will be received by the die hards but they did very well at Hampton Court last year and it generated an amazing amount of interest.
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Phil Voice May 16, 2009 at 10:17am

I bet grass lawns don't feature.
Graeme @ BGS May 16, 2009 at 10:43am

Very true - it always amazes me how lawns are over looked - Nice to see Mike having a go at them about it.
Lisa Valentine May 16, 2009 at 1:56pm

anything got's to be better than shades of different greens - beautiful but still nice to see flowers and colour. I think they're going to take after gardeners world and go more sustainable living. Veg & fruit I bet will dominate this year. Hopefully, with the way things are at the moment with the news, designers will really go for lots of colour to cheer everybody up.

By the way, I hope the RHS sort out the pricing structures to let mere mortals in and not just the well off. Actually, just been on their website and the tickets are £43 for Chelsea for the day. Maybe they could reduce their prices to help us with our sustainable living because the money saved could be bought for a bottle of wine thus helping out the vineyard growers, we could buy vegetables to grow on our vegetable patches, we could also buy fruit trees to help us offset our carbon footprints. We could maybe make it the RHS sustainable circle.

I hope no one picked up on the sarcasm in this reply - it really is the lowest form of wit!!!
chris nangle May 16, 2009 at 2:09pm

the key trends will be lisa at quercus, top class oak fencing and my burnt oak seating both of which can be seen at this years show sorry i could not help myself
claudia de yong May 16, 2009 at 10:35pm

Hope yow saw the article I wrote under the Source Section where I mention you and your site! I will be going to Chelsea this Sunday to do a show report before it opens.Will look out for your stand.
chris nangle said:
the key trends will be lisa at quercus, top class oak fencing and my burnt oak seating both of which can be seen at this years show sorry i could not help myself
chris nangle May 17, 2009 at 3:11pm

thanks for that claudia my work is on the quercus stand i am off down tomorow
let me know if you need any high res images of my work i would be more than happy too send some over
regards chris
chris nangle May 18, 2009 at 9:43pm

vertical planted walls are very big this year, saw lots of em today