Chelsea 2014

Fabulous pictures Kristen,thanks for sharing Loved the Hilliers white garden

 

Here's one of my Heliconia (H.pendula) photos showing the flowers hanging down through the lower leaves................

 

Thanks

Growing them for the first time this year - got a bit of root cheap in Himalyan Gardens spring sale Had no idea what to expect it to look like though!

Got a bit of a Costus Barbatus last year (Sal asked me to get him a plant in the Jungle Plants close-down-sale as he was abroad, and he insisted I have a Pup from it ) I thought the spiral foliage was nice, but was interested to see the flowers on it at Chelsea

 

They come in many shapes and sizes. H.pendula and rostrata are two of the larger ones. One of the common names is False Bird Of Paradise which is a fair description of the flower bracts on some of the smaller ones.

 

I expect each plant is separately - with its own "training grid".

The limes (Tilia I mean, not G&T ones!) are clearly fan-trained, to give "cube heads", rather than Pleached - I took some upward-facing photos to figure out "how". I think its a clever idea. There was an aerial shot, on Beeb, which showed how really wide and flat the top was, so rather different to pleach, and I think it would look fantastic from an upstairs window. Sorry, didn;t have my tall ladder with me to duplicate that shot

"Flat top Pleach" (at far end) note that not very much "depth-height"


and shot of equivalent one (near end) from underneath:

 

@"M"
Wibble - The word used by Rowan Atkinson in "blackadder goes forth" to denote a state of
insanity. In the scene he puts pencils up his nose and repeats "wibble wibble"

 

Urban usage:

The act of being so overcome with emotion that
1. The eyebrows come together and curve up at the inside.
2. The eyes become big and childlike
3. The lips and sometimes the chin shake (this is what actually constitutes wibbling)

Dictionary usage:

1. Wobble; quiver.
2. Speak or write, especially at great length. <----- THIS!

 

I've now remembered that, I think, that is more correctly called "Roof trained"

Screen-grab from iPlayer coverage of Chelsea 2014 by the Beeb, but my recollection is of a better shot, taken from a higher vantage point.

 

Thanks for all your feedback, I figured you lot might like one from Chelsea 2013 too?

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