Property News · May 24, 2016

Bringing Tamil Nadu to the Chelsea flower show


How do you create an authentic Tamil Nadu dwelling at London’s famous flower show?Garden designer Tom Hoblyn took up the challenge Snake gourd, bitter gourd, ash gourd, I can barely write these names without grimacing. For the past few days I have been unraveling their jungly tendrils to attach them to a Tamil Nadu dwelling. They have most reluctant; homesick for their heated glasshouse in the heart of the Fens, being ably tended by Delfland Nurseries’ owner John Overvoorde.They are finally “planted” in our Chelsea flower show exhibit, but boy, have they been trouble. They arrived all carefully trained onto a bamboo trellis and needed to appear to be colonising our building. The chillies, aubergine, tomatoes, amaranthus went in without a fuss, and as for the 7m tall palm tree: it was a piece of cake. But as I ran out of time, arranging the gourd vines was rather like trying to untangle a kite on a windy beach. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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