It's always interesting to earwig on conversations at a flower show, you can't really help it when there are so many visitors, and everyone's got their own ideas as to what makes a great show garden or exhibit. One comment I hear time and time again is how inspiring the gardens are and how they're going to try to copy 'that' colour scheme or 'this' style of planting. The thing that I'm going to take away and copy from this years show is not plants but paths.
The back to back gardens are very good for hard landscaping ideas and I spotted a brick edged path in-filled with pebbles stuck into concrete, much like a mosaic. Or, there's a stone path with grass instead of mortar and something more contemporary, a metal grid suspended over a bog garden - almost like a bridge. However, the one that I'm going to copy at home is the path in 'The Garden for Bees'. It's a gravel path planted with an informal drift of thyme, which smells as good as it looks. The good news for me is that I've already got a gravel path, all I have to do is add the 'thyme' and once the flower show is over, I'll have the 'time' to do it. Robert Nyman
Like, flowers
Beautiful tropical flowers decorating the streets and villages of Cambodia. During earlier decades - war and prewar - there were many more flowers and blossoming bushes. During my last visit to Cambodia in 1995 there were almost no flowers left from the destructive post war era of Cambodia.
Now slowly the people of Cambodia is recovering from war / post war damage and reviving the old Khmer tradition of having abundant flowers all around houses, villages and along streets.
In album Kingdom of Cambodia: Photos Cambodia scenery, eCards Cambodia nature
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