Malvern Memories: The Show Gardens

Here's the first post taking a nostalgic view of last year's Malvern Show, designed to give you a taster of what to expect in May. Last year's blogging visitors have been absolutely fantastic and have willingly agreed to let me re-publish their posts in full, without too much in the way of arm twisting from me. The result is so much better than just giving you a few links to go off and look at. Thanks guys :)

First up is Happy Mouffetard aka The Inelegant Gardener [shorely shome mishtake - Ed], who takes us on a walk around some of last year's show gardens:

Several people have already put up photos of the show gardens at Malvern, including Patient Gardener, VP and Arabella Sock. I have to say that, to my untutored eye, the gardens seemed of better quality than I have seen in previous years. And there were more, too. Having the creative imagination of a gnat, I can only admire the way that the designers can think up a concept and then bring it to life with living material.


Debs at Beholder's Eye won a silver medal with her imaginative and romantic Lola

Having forgotten which other gardens are which by now, these photos hopefully show some of the exuberance of spring.

Sarracenia surrounding a circular pool were eye-catching.

Beyond here be dragons...

Alliums featured in a lot of the gardens, which is A Good Thing as far as I'm concerned.

Sorry Joe Swift - there weren't many gardens which concentrated on the colour green.

And just for Arabella, who missed out on a hug...

NB Content and pictures are courtesy and copyright of Happy Mouffetard.