The Chelsea Flower show and The Gore

So The Chelsea Flower Show....

There were Roses

Miniature fields of lavender

Irises

Irises

and deepest purple Irises

This was an innovative way of re-cycling old plastic bottles

But this was my favourite garden

Silver birch underplanted with white Astrantia, Foxgloves Soloman's seal, 

Ferns, Heuchara, bleeding hearts

Simple and so, so fresh and beautiful.

Reminded me of this painting

The Goose girl by Stanley Royle previously attributed to Lavery

and of course of the ultimate white garden

Sissinghurst
Created by Vita Sackville-West

After a long day discussing all things horticultural we retired to 

The Gore

This was the Headboard of our bed 

The stay at The Gore was a gift from dear friends as I mentioned, 

and it was so generous and kind.

I debated for a long time as to how to write this post not wanting to seem ungrateful

and I had decided when I started HelenJamesDesign to blog about things I loved 

and not too write about things that I didn't....... but in the spirit of transparency 

unfortunately The Gore was disappointing.

The service was terrible, the food was not great, the room was unremarkable

(apart from the headboard)

but it didn't spoil our fun.

Next post is about EGG the inspirational store in Knightsbridge 

owned by Maureen Doherty

EGG was the second highlight of the trip.

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