I’ve always wanted to visit the RHS Malvern Spring show and this year I actually remembered to book tickets and off we went a couple of weeks ago on a sunny Saturday!
I watched Gardeners World the Friday beforehand as I thought they would be filming there and I was not disappointed. I loved the look of the show gardens and the floral marquee and couldn’t wait to visit the Three Counties Showground in Malvern the next day. I was crossing my fingers that the weather would improve too after a deluge of rain a few days before.
The big day arrived and the sun came out. We arrived mid morning, along with thousands of other people too! First stop coffee and a 10 minute wait for the ladies’ loo’s! (Generally speaking there are more women at shows like this so why not provide extra toilets?!).
Second stop was the show gardens. Unfortunately due to the previous days rain, these were in a muddy field! From watching GW I was really looking forward to seeing the show gardens and they didn’t disappoint. On the down side, it was so busy you had to queue In order to get a look in. It’s always disappointing at these things as there are so many people like me wanting to get a look. On TV they obviously film when no ones around. A false sense of reality!
Anyway after I managed a quick peak, I really liked this garden. It was so bright and colourful. Lots of fun in the garden. It really appealed to me as my garden is also full of bright, fun colours and eye catching planting.
The schools gardens were excellent too. Lots of hard work went into them and I loved the bright happy colours and the planting.
My absolute favourite garden was “the bra garden” though! I saw Carol Klein talking about the bras and couldn’t find a record of it anywhere in the programme. My husband came up with the idea of re running the GW episode to find out what the garden was called I was getting obsessed with finding this garden at one point. We managed to locate the garden due to the placement of some giant tepees in the end! It was great fun and unbeknown to me it was made by a local school in Birmingham.
All in all, a good day out was had by everyone. My husband and son enjoyed their burger and pizza respectively and I enjoyed looking around the gardens, actually in the sunshine!
Im thinking about a return visit to BBC Gardeners World Live next month, but I may be going on a solo trip, unless there is some street food there to tempt the family!
Lizzy's Homemade 