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I've always wanted to go to an RHS flower show and watch the week long coverage of Chelsea every year.  Tatton Park in Cheshire is only about an hour from here in Chapel en le Frith and where I used to live in Hadfield (another Derbyshire village)  So again every year I've wanted to go. But as it's usually the weekend schools break up I've been too knackered after a year of teaching or I've been  taking the children on holiday and the places they wanted to go to never included walking round garden shows!! But this year time is my own...(still revelling in this) so I went with a friend who shares the same passion for gardening that I do.  We chose to go on a Friday  not a Saturday as neither of us are limited by the working week anymore!!  Loved every minute  even the tickets were really pretty. as I walked from stand to stand, admired new plants and viewed show gardens it was a feast for the senses Here are some of my photos (I could have taken more,

It's a year since we moved into our bungalow.  At the moment the garden is our long term project.  Long term because we don't have a couple of thousand in our backpockets as you see in all the TV programmes. For example 'Big Dreams Small spaces' with Monty Don. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04mqp0 The programme is really good and gives loads of ideas...but generally the people engaging on their garden projects have money to put their plans into action. Another fabulous programme I've enjoyed recently is the Autistic gardener. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-autistic-gardener  Really quirky with a different way of looking at planning and designing gardens.  But again the clients have plenty to spend. At most we probably have about £20 month that we can allocate... but we have time. So instead of employing landscapers etc. most of the back breaking work will be done by yours truly!! But the first biggie removal of hedge and replacemen