At the RHS Chelsea Flower Show – a ‘selfie’ taken as a reflection in the in the polished steel garden arches of the “Positively Stoke-on-Trent” exhibit. To the right is a Moorcroft Pottery sphere featuring images of plants in the show garden. Great exhibit!


Alan worked with another Chelsea Gold medal winner, Kate Gould, to design and implement this gaden that shows the diversity of plants that can be grown in the British Isles. The back of the exhibit is a representation of Alan’s native Ilkley Moor in Yorkshire, complete with a dry-stone wall removed from the Moors and re-installed here at Chelsea. Silver Birch trees dot the grassy areas as the slope falls down to the pool and cabin that represent the more temperate growing area of Alan’s present home on the Isle of Wight.
The garden is a fitting tribute to both Alan’s fifty years in gardening and the half a century of Britain in Bloom.
By the way Alan (and all of the other exhibitors) must be exhausted. I talked to him early this morning when he really wanted a cup of coffee and I have just seen photos of him chatting with the Queen on the Telly (Television- translation) this evening

“From the Moors to the Sea” Alan Titchmarsh and Kate Gould designed this RHS Chelsea Flower Show exhibit.

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