Chelsea Flower show pictures

Here's a pictorial preview of the Chelsea Flower show from the Guardian. It doesn't do the show justice, but it does give you a taste of the floral extravagance that will be on display. Logistically it seems quite impossible to have so many perfectly flowering specimens of so many different plants all at once and for the entire week of the show. The displays are always quite beautiful, and even the potatoes are beautiful. Was it worth attending?  Yes, although they limit the number for each day of the show, the crowd was a bit dismaying. Rather hard to stand and just admire a garden at times even if they do forbid that bane of street fairs, farmers' markets, and garden shows, the stroller (or is it a pram?). And also no dogs. What ever makes you think your dog enjoys going to such events with you? Sorry.  You also get an idea here just how creative some of the garden designs are.  Enjoy.

Erotic garden in northern Thailand

Sorry TPP missed this erotic garden on his last visit to Thailand, but it's newly opened. Not sure this is quite TPP's cup of tea, but it does have a tea house. To be sure, this is not the first place featuring numerous phalli that TPP has visited; one temple in southern India had thousands. That the owner of the garden looks like a very nice lady only demonstrates how differently different cultures perceive such imagery. In the USA you'd probably get arrested for pornography or lewdness for constructing mammaries in your garden. But were they botanically true to the theme? Will they have Amorphophallus and Phallus growing? There are other plants that might be appropriate too, e.g., Clitoria, Mammillaria. Why things may get out of hand and require some Euphoribia antisyphilletica. Here's one of the milder images for this family-oriented blog, quite an idea for a fountain really (a phallic phoutain?) but suddenly TPP feels a strong urge to urinate!  Must be the tea.  Wonder what the ladies over at Garden Rant will think of this garden design. Ladies?