Go Wild for Colour ; This Year, Chelsea Explodes in a Riot of Dazzling Colour, with Everything From Merlin's Imaginary Garden to Maori Sculpture.
Evening Standard - London › May 20, 2004
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THE RHS maintains that this year's Chelsea Flower Show is going to be predominantly green in colour, but don't be fooled; all that restful foliage is a mere foil for more vibrant colour than a Pucci sundress.
Diarmuid Gavin's show garden, understatedly called A Colourful Suburban Eden, is supposedly influenced by myriad shades of green that make up the Emerald Isle.See the full content of this document
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Go Wild for Colour ; This Year, Chelsea Explodes in a Riot of Dazzling Colour, with Everything From Merlin's Imaginary Garden to Maori Sculpture.
But check those rainbow-coloured metal spheres that punctuate the green and which are influenced, says the naughty Irishman - who has been sharing the yearlong task of creating his garden with TV viewers for the past several weeks - by Damien Hirst spot paintings, the Modernist movement and gosh, the Teletubbies.
Another designer who shares the migraine of creating her show garden - buy the book on...See the full content of this document
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