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General => The Shed => Topic started by: ACE on June 15, 2011, 08:22:40
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Not many pics ready yet but here's one to get on with. More later or google Gardeners world live and search out 'Remember the dream'
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oh wow that looks fantastic Ace. Well done on the silver gilt.
One day I will get to Chelsea, im so close to it but have never been
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Well done ACE... :)
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Congratulations Ace, looking good!
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That looks really beautiful Ace. I saw photos of it being laid out but it was hard to imagine it would end up looking so lovely. Well done!
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Wow that looks amazing. We have seen a few pics of the garden when it was just getting started. One of the chaps from Walsall Rd who helped you, showed us. He said how much he had learned from the experience.He said how everything had to be measured just so and the planting had to be exactly as planned.It must be a great feeling to see something that has been put down on paper come to life. Thanks for showing us the finished garden Ace
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Simply gorgeous, well done you.
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One of the chaps from Walsall Rd who helped you, showed us. He said how much he had learned from the experience.
I am glad they enjoyed theirselves, we had a good laugh, A bit of an eye opener for them, but the experience has put them in good stead. Now get them organised for next year and get your allotment society on the map with your own garden/allotment scene. Bill and family could not get enough of it they was popping in every spare minute, even helping another exhibitor that had got behind. You are very lucky to have some very nice people on your allotments. Sorry we could not put in an appearance at your site but we were working 12 to 14 hours a day and time just ran out.
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congratulations :)
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Beautiful Ace. Well done everyone ;D.
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Sorry we could not put in an appearance at your site but we were working 12 to 14 hours a day and time just ran out. (quote by Ace)
I think a personal appearance would have been just too much for us brummy wenches Ace. ;D
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Well done, will be there on Sunday to see the garden for real.
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Another cracker, Ace. Really lovely!
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so pretty - congratulations on the silver gilt medal - well deserved.
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Is is really lovely. Totally amazing what you can do in a few days. Would like to go to the show but this was wrong week for me.
Congralutaions on the Silver Gilt. But for me a definite Gold.
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Congatulations, it looks beautiful.
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One of the chaps from Walsall Rd who helped you, showed us. He said how much he had learned from the experience.
I am glad they enjoyed theirselves, we had a good laugh, A bit of an eye opener for them, but the experience has put them in good stead. Now get them organised for next year and get your allotment society on the map with your own garden/allotment scene. Bill and family could not get enough of it they was popping in every spare minute, even helping another exhibitor that had got behind. You are very lucky to have some very nice people on your allotments. Sorry we could not put in an appearance at your site but we were working 12 to 14 hours a day and time just ran out.
Yes Ace, we do have some lovely people on our site. Bill told me that he was going along after work as well as last weekend, he really enjoyed doing it.
We are presenting a cheque to Macmillan this week, I'll tell them about our connection with the show garden.
It's a shame you couldn't get over to see us, I would have sent my Micra to pick you up if you'd said......... ;D
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Brilliant, well done, all :)
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Top banana Ace. ;D
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Lovely, Ace! Looking forward to more photos- congratulations!
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As promised, more piccies including yours truly posing as usual.
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Well done ace .....lovely design!
I see you are wearing the hat but I am a bit disappointed you are not wearing the green Mac! :P
Duke
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Gorgeous! (And the garden's not bad either!)
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Congratulations ....and have congratulated Yvonne as well.
Booked in for the 24/25th so hope the weather is good. And I am packing my sleeping bag .......so no snoring!!!!
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great work Ace, i will be there on sunday may even get a chat if your not busy,like you always seem to be the other times i have been.
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Well done that man. Very nice indeed.
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Fabulous! Lovely 'dreamy' colour scheme.
The mind boggles at the amount of time, work and growing skills it must have taken to get from the drawings to the end result.
Congratulations!
(ACE - I have to ask - did you think the gold medal garden was even better than yours or was you robbed?)
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(ACE - I have to ask - did you think the gold medal garden was even better than yours or was you robbed?)
We knew there were a few mistakes from a judging point of view, so the medal was well recieved. There is very little between gold and silver gilt, but the public will love it and that is our main concern. Watch the telly next friday and you should see it featured quite a bit and tv coverage for macmillan is what it is all about. They do not judge garden against garden everybody could get gold if they were all good enough. Once we lost gold and best in show on one garden because the gate was 2 inches too high, so judging is very tough.
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What a treat, thank you for the extra photos. What a dream :)
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Saw the garden in all its glory yesterday, took a load of photos but there are plenty here already! It looks lovely 'in the flesh', and I am not usually keen on pink flowers either.... ;D I was pleased to see a little bit of mosaic work around the small pond, very 'Ace' ;D
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I was pleased to see a little bit of mosaic work around the small pond, very 'Ace' ;D
Whoops forgot the mosaic. If you could view the garden from above the patterns of planting in the garden follow the design of the mosaic.
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Lot of pink Ace
Pink is very Gay
Not that I am against people being gay of course. Just that it is a surprise to me because you always seemed so, shall we say, HETRO.
If you are coming out then.
Congratulations
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Me! a bit light on the loafers! How very dare you ;) My input is mostly construction, the designer loves pink and I am not one to argue. Mind you I have got in touch with my feminine side and started shaving my armpits ;D
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Me! a bit light on the loafers! How very dare you ;) My input is mostly construction, the designer loves pink and I am not one to argue. Mind you I have got in touch with my feminine side and started shaving my armpits ;D
;D ;D ;D
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Well done Ace.....lovely as always :) :)
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Fantastic. Thank you for sharing. I was able to see some of your work when holidaying on the IOW,
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Ah ..... so who's wearing the pink knickers now? ;D ;D ;D
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Beautiful - they like it on GW too ;D
Alison x
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Love it! Well done!
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Good to see it on the telly, I hope all our helpers got a buzz from seeing their efforts on the small screen. It all comes down tomorrow evening. I hope we sell a lot of plants and props at the sell off.
Busy weekend now after our short sort of rest. We load some of a garden on the lorry for Hampton Court tonight, deliver it tomorrow morning, then on to the NEC to breakdown the Gardeners World garden, back to the nursery for another load for Hampton, then start building 'Loves Last Adieu' on tuesday. with help from Tin Shed. Not such a big garden as this one but very different.
What with travelling, building, and fitting in dressing out a wedding marquee in between jobs, I don't know if I have been 'punched, bored or countersunk'.
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Ace...
I love the pink obelisks......how much would one of those cost? Did you use ordinary emulsion to paint them?
Duke
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Ace...
I love the pink obelisks......how much would one of those cost? Did you use ordinary emulsion to paint them?
Duke
I don't know what they will go for, Go to the show sunday and make me an offer. Painted with satin weathershield.
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good luck with the next shows, will watch iplayer later :)
We used to work on the festival sites (glasto etc) and I kind of understand the turning up, building, selling, breaking down, re-stcking, moving on, and building up. Phew loads of work, but a great life and laugh :) Our best friends were cable ties and gaffer tape ::) At this time of year, I miss it all ;)
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.So what do the judge's know eh??.....it's a gold,....may be you got marked down on the choice of hat for the gnome .. ;)
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Its beautiful, and so so pretty.
Well done .
June.
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I wish I could but my OH laughed when I asked him to drive me to Birmingham to make ACE an offer he couldn't refuse. As I live in Hampshire the obelisks would be an expensive bargain! :P
Duke