The Start of Summer – July 2011

The enterprising Irish Sky Garden by Diarmuid Gavin

FOR ME, the Chelsea Flower Show always signals the start of summer although this year, with the exceptionally dry warm spell of weather in south-east England, you could be forgiven for thinking it has already been with us for some weeks now. In fact, the warm spring had forced designers to revise their planting plans even up to the last minute. Chelsea is one of the UK’s comfortingly traditional events that mean fantastic garden displays.