Photo: Dmitry LivshitsAll in the garden! Chelsea. This event is noted in the diary of the Queen of England herself, not to mention her loyal subjects. Tickets for the exhibition must be bought in a few months, and it's better to come here with a huge cart, so that later you can take out what you like. On the last day, participants sell their riches, digging them out (right in the pots) from the ground: the plants here cost a penny, or rather, pence, but we do not need to buy them: the flowers are strictly forbidden by the customs to import into Russia. Those who did not get a cart, use any improvised means. Before our very eyes, the girl lost her wheelchair to flower pots. Here it is, the life-giving force of art! 
Exhibition garden
Competition program There is a big difference betweenwhat the people choose, and what the jury chooses. The English people love benches, fountains, flowers and colors, in other words, traditions. However, folk favorites rarely receive gold or are recognized as the best in their nominations. The jury gives awards for originality and fresh ideas. Designers try to sit on two chairs, although it is noticeable that the “popular” chair has lured them more lately - after all, commerce should not be forgotten either! This is probably why there are many classic gardens like never before. Lovely, brooding, with ivy-covered walls and ponds surrounded by flowers. Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë would be happy here, but how can that convince the jury? 
The idea of recycling The oldest members of Chelsea founda loophole and serve the old design in a new beautiful package called recycling (waste disposal, speaking in Russian). This is a win-win ticket. Designers promoting the idea of recycling, become winners of Chelsea as often as films with social context winners of the Oscar. Jeffrey White was able to do it: in the garden of the old peasant he invented, there is a pond overgrown with mildew, a lopsided cart, semiclasses, half-crops, on which everything grows ... What does waste recycling mean? "Well, did our ancestors ever throw something out? No! Answers Jeffrey. "It was used until it was scattered before their eyes, without any noticeable damage to nature." Result? Visitors were touched and sighed, remembering the summer holidays spent at the grandmother's and grandfather's in the village, and on the plate in gold and white it is written that the garden was awarded a silver medal. Flowers and colors Flowers and colors are now in vogue bright and diverse. Isabelle Van Groningen and Gabriela Pape from the garden of the Daily Telegraph argue that the roots of this trend should be sought literally in German soil: the Germans like to have a brighter in the garden and do not hesitate to plant roses and mimosas next to them, even if their island neighbors from such a combination shivers. We will recover: threw until recently. The definition of "gray-brown-raspberry" can now be fully applied to English gardens, replacing it with a discount for natural restrictions, gray to orange, or yellow or blue, or better for all these colors together. And the problem of combinations no longer cares. What was previously considered bad taste today is regarded as boldness. Why is that? This question I asked Gabriela and received a worthy rebuff: "This is not bad taste, and the tradition, however, is German, and we tried to revive it." All explain the traditions, their own or others' - this is the English in blood. After wandering around the exhibition, I came to a simpler conclusion: the participants of Chelsea decided to be closer to the people. On bright colors people flew like bees to honey.
Weed grass This is another trend from the category of "andour and yours. " Having become famous for the whole world neatly trimmed with lawns, which now are not otherwise called English, the inhabitants of the United Kingdom decided to try something new. This is new - all the same grass, only not more sheared and not smoothed-neat, but such as it was created by nature (or gardeners who learned to imitate it badly). The grass is waving around the paths, reminding of the thoughtful foliage in Antonioni's Photo Magnification, tries to climb into the flower garden to the garden flowers - from where it would be immediately exorcised with indignation and fill all the more or less open spaces. The last case could be considered the most uninteresting - glades like glades, if not for one curious detail. Where there was a bell in the nature, or chamomile, or poppy, which are named for this property by wild flowers, the designers suddenly have a foundling iris, or rose, or some other flower, accustomed to a more aristocratic than the grass , the neighborhood. Long live English democracy! The struggle for economy The struggle for economy is gaining momentum. This year the waterfalls have completely disappeared. They say it's too expensive. Water, the one that is, runs a thin trickle through a narrow aqueduct, carefully assembles at the very ground and without losses is again delivered to the upper point of the structure or pours from a device vaguely reminiscent of the lower part of the gutter. Flies not just so, but in the pool - in it, by the way, and you can swim on a sunny day. On the money earned, designers build a stone edging for the pools, and to it stone paths and stone seats - there was never so much stone in Chelsea. Really the cheapest material? It turned out, no. Not only expensive, but also doubtful. In England, they treat him the same way as in Germany to natural fur. The Party for the Defense of Human Rights claims: it is impossible, the stone is brought to England from third world countries, where children work in the quarries; party admirers of the beautiful says: you can, because it's beautiful, do not want to buy in other countries - support the domestic manufacturer. I saw the quotations of this producer: natural stone and gold in almost the same price. So I would vote for the Democrats.www.rhs.org.uk 
