The storm before the calm
Post categories: Sam Youd
| 16:23 UK time, Friday, 26 June 2009
The deer are lying peacefully in the sunshine and the sheep slumber in the shade of the great Beech Avenue.
But not for long ... this delightful pastoral scene will soon be shattered by the first signs of the 11th Royal Horticultural Society's Show at Tatton Park - the roar of the great articulated vehicles delivering tracking for the show site. We call it the storm before the calm!
For me it's a part of the month-long experience which can only be described as being 'imprisoned in paradise'. The fact that I only have to walk out of my front door to the show site in less than ten minutes is an added bonus.
I look forward to meeting many of my old friends (getting older by the year) as well as making some new ones.
Before that though, it is back to the hard work of the build up. Show preparation for all involved in the Tatton Show starts around the previous October, when we have to decide what we are going to do. Then there is the inevitable tome of paperwork to be filled in, including the all important Health and Safety risk assessments to comply with all the required legislation. Finally, the client's brief, a document intended to inform the judges why and how you decided to build such a garden, with such a theme. After the plan has been drawn up, you can start to plan how you will make all of the paperwork a reality.
So I have started to build some of the superstructure and selected some of the plants, which will hopefully interpret the theme of our garden, which is ......
Where did that idea spring from? Read on next week
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