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Floral exhibitors in the Great Pavilion
Images: Martin Mulchinock
Campania Region, Italy
Mediterranean plants. This display celebrates food from the Campania region of Italy.
Cayeux Iris
This year the Cayeux stand brings a touch of France to Chelsea, with 41 tall bearded irises, 24 of them Cayeux creations. This exhibit creates a mass of colour around a central pigeonnier or dovecote - a familiar sight throughout much of France. The tiered staging creates an effect of massed planting - a situation which displays irises at their best and is reminiscent of the banks of irises one often sees lining French roadsides.
Irises can be used in many different combinations and to suit all kinds of garden. Cayeux has divided the stand into four planting beds to reflect the enormous potential of irises in the garden:
City Chic: This bed reflects the growing popularity of dramatic black and very dark purple or blue irises, which combined with whites, lavenders and silver-mauves create an eye-catching modern effect, especially suitable for a city garden. Cultivars include: ‘Mer du Sud’, ‘Mystérieux’ and ‘Ré la Blanche’ by Cayeux , as well as ‘Ghost Train’ and ‘Paint It Black’.
Hot and Spicy: These irises have been chosen for their warm tones: yellows, oranges, dark reds and chocolate browns. They include ‘Marcel Turbat’, ‘Rouge Gorge’, the award-winning ‘Feu du Ciel’, and the striking new cultivar ‘Torero’, launched in 2005.
Romantic Evenings: Nothing is more restful than pale pastels on a summer's evening. The irises in this bed have been selected for their gentle hues: pinks, soft blues, whites. Cayeux's popular ‘Buisson de Roses’ is included along with ‘Succès-Fou’, ‘Alizés’ AGM, ‘Neige de Mai’.
The Line of Cayeux: This bed illustrates some of the Cayeux family's most skilful creations in hybridisation and shows what can be achieved within the genus Iris, particularly with plicatas, amoenas and other bi-colours. Alongside the new cultivar ‘Réussite’, you will find the very popular ‘Provençal’ (created by Jean Cayeux in 1978), as well as ‘Château d'Auvers sur Oise’, ‘French Can Can’, ‘Haut les Voiles’ and ‘Fabuleux’ - all created by Richard Cayeux in the past five years.
For 2006, Cayeux tackles gardeners' worries about climate change and reminds us how tall bearded irises provide a drought-resistant, low-maintenance solution to hosepipe bans and dry conditions. Gardeners are increasingly turning to plants that will withstand hot summers or lack of watering. Bearded irises fit the bill perfectly and offer such a palette of colours that everyone can find cultivars to suit their taste.
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Choice Landscapes
Conifers
City of Edinburgh Council
A glimpse of the Himalaya
Claire Austin Hardy Plants
Bearded irises
Craig House Cacti
Cacti, euphorbias and succulents
Crawford's Seeds in conjunction with Owl's Acre Sweet Peas
This display explores the Cherub Series sweet peas and looks at new developments in dwarf sweet peas for patio pots and hanging baskets. This exhibit uses patio pots to produce a pyramid of sweet peas, which are white, pink, salmon, pink bicolour, cherry, crimson, lavender, light purple and mauve.
D'Arcy & Everest
Alpines & rock garden plants
David Austin Roses
The inspiration for this exhibit is the Renaissance garden at the nursery in Shropshire, which contains 700 different cultivars of rose. The exhibit is a large rectangular garden with a long central path, which is planted on either side with a mixture of English roses, climbing roses and other shrub roses. Up the middle of the bed is a long line of climbing roses, ramblers and English roses. The key plants in the garden are English roses that have a wide colour range.
David Austin Roses start to think about the garden design at the previous year’s Chelsea. The nursery re-pots and prunes all the roses at around Christmas time. The climbers are David Austin’s biggest challenge as they are so big - 2-3m tall. The greenhouse at the nursery is split into four different temperature areas so that they can force the roses to be perfect for the day.
Devine Nurseries
Alliums and eremurus
Dibleys Nurseries - Streptocarpus
Downderry Nursery
Lavender