{"id":55923,"date":"2017-05-25T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/10-things-we-learned-from-the-chelsea-flower-show-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-05-25T15:09:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T08:09:35","slug":"10-things-we-learned-from-the-chelsea-flower-show-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/10-things-we-learned-from-the-chelsea-flower-show-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"10 things we learned from the Chelsea flower show 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFrom lupins to moss, crazy paving to oranges and reds, these were the trends that stood out at the 2017 showChelsea\u2019s purple patch \u2013 dominated by alliums, irises and salvias \u2013 seems to be in a slow decline, with this year\u2019s emergent colour scheme one of deep wine reds, burgundies and magentas, with patches of bronze. The Silk Road garden by Laurie Chetwood and Patrick Collins was the most dramatic example of the trend, but it threaded more subtly through many of this year\u2019s designs. Key plants for this trend are the plume thistle (Cirsium rivulare \u2018Atropurpureum\u2019), Lysimachia \u2018Beaujolais\u2019, bronze fennel (Foeniculum vulgare \u2018Purpureum\u2019) and red lupins. There were surprising splashes of orange, yellow and pink, too, from the bright orange giant Anglepoise lamp in Kate Gould\u2019s urban garden to the orange and pink walls in Manoj Malde\u2019s garden, inspired by the Mexican modernist architect Luis Barrag\u00e1n. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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