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The Great Ellerslie Sell Off

This was perhaps the most bemusing part of the show for me.   We'd spent the best part of a week dancing around these Show Gardens with kid gloves - not allowed to breath on them let alone touch or walk on them ... and then in the last 2 hours of the show on Sunday evening The Great Sell Off started.    The gardens were literally ripped apart and sold off to show goers ...  how weird.

Our congratulations to the Incredible Edibles Garden and the Good Garden Trust Garden for choosing to donate their gardens to a local childrens home and not take part in what was quite a bizarre spectacle.

The Englishwomens Advance

 

Instead of The Englishmans Retreat Chris Beardshaw's award winning garden turned into the Englishwomens Advance with all ladies wanting a piece of Chris and his perennials.

Chris Beardshaw Takeaway

I've got Chris's Daisies ...

 

Out-a-my-way.. don't mess with the Delphiniums ..

Maybe if I ask that nice Gorilla he'll carry them all home for  me ...

 

Pamphlet Drop

Yesterdays news now ...

Chris Beardshaws Garden the day after ..

An Englishman's Retreat the day after the Sell Off ... looking a little bit like a vacant lot ..

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