silver gilt medal

[ACE]

As promised, more piccies including yours truly posing as usual.

[ACE]

[Duke Ellington]

Well done ace .....lovely design!
I see you are wearing the hat but I am a bit disappointed you are not wearing the green Mac! :P

Duke

[caroline7758]

Gorgeous! (And the garden's not bad either!)

[Tin Shed]

Congratulations ....and have congratulated Yvonne as well. 

Booked in for the 24/25th so hope the weather is good. And I am packing my sleeping bag .......so no snoring!!!!

[hippydave]

great work Ace, i will be there on sunday may even get a chat if your not busy,like you always seem to be the other times i have been.

[rosebud]

 Well done that man.  Very nice indeed.

[Grandma]

Fabulous! Lovely 'dreamy' colour scheme.

The mind boggles at the amount of time, work and growing skills it must have taken to get  from the drawings to the end result.

Congratulations! 

(ACE - I have to ask - did you think the gold medal garden was even better than yours or was you robbed?)

[ACE]

(ACE - I have to ask - did you think the gold medal garden was even better than yours or was you robbed?)

We knew there were a few mistakes from a judging point of view, so the medal was well recieved. There is very little between gold and silver gilt, but the public will love it and that is our main concern. Watch the telly next friday and you should see it featured quite a bit and tv coverage for macmillan is what it is all about. They do not judge garden against garden everybody could get gold if they were all good enough. Once we lost gold and best in show on one garden because the gate was 2 inches too high, so judging is very tough.

[Jayb]

What a treat, thank you for the extra photos. What a dream  :)

[Deb P]

Saw the garden in all its glory yesterday, took a load of photos but there are plenty here already! It looks lovely 'in the flesh', and I am not usually keen on pink flowers either.... ;D I was pleased to see a little bit of mosaic work around the small pond, very 'Ace'  ;D

[ACE]

I was pleased to see a little bit of mosaic work around the small pond, very 'Ace'  ;D

Whoops forgot the mosaic. If you could view the garden from above the patterns of planting in the garden follow the design of the mosaic.

[PurpleHeather]

Lot of pink Ace

Pink is very Gay

Not that I am against people being gay of course. Just that it is a surprise to me because you always seemed so, shall we say, HETRO.

If you are coming out then.

Congratulations

[ACE]

Me! a bit light on the loafers! How very dare you ;) My input is mostly construction, the designer loves pink and I am not one to argue.  Mind you I have got in touch with my feminine  side and started shaving my armpits ;D

[Squash64]

Me! a bit light on the loafers! How very dare you ;) My input is mostly construction, the designer loves pink and I am not one to argue.  Mind you I have got in touch with my feminine  side and started shaving my armpits ;D

;D  ;D  ;D

[betula]

Well done Ace.....lovely as always  :) :)

[lorna]

Fantastic. Thank you for sharing. I was able to see some of your work when holidaying on the IOW,

[grawrc]

Ah ..... so who's wearing the pink knickers now? ;D ;D ;D

[Alimo]

Beautiful - they like it on GW too  ;D

Alison x

[gwynnethmary]

Love it!  Well done!

[ACE]

Good to see it on the telly, I hope all our helpers got a buzz from seeing their efforts on the small screen. It all comes down tomorrow evening. I hope we sell a lot of plants and props at the sell off.

Busy weekend now after our short sort of rest.  We load some of a garden on the lorry for Hampton Court tonight, deliver it tomorrow morning, then on to the NEC to breakdown the Gardeners World garden, back to the nursery for another load for Hampton, then start building 'Loves Last Adieu' on tuesday. with help from Tin Shed. Not such a big garden as this one but very different.

What with travelling,  building, and fitting in dressing out a wedding marquee in between jobs, I don't know if I have been 'punched, bored or countersunk'.