Field Day

Horticulture is big news this week, as it's the Chelsea Flower Show.

I'm not patient enough to make a good gardener - but I do like looking at nice gardens when somebody else has done all the graft.

I last went to Chelsea three years ago (the Flower Show, that is, not to see the football team - it was about six years ago when I last did that) and loved it - although it seemed as much about design and architecture as gardening and, like everything else these days, it was rather hijacked by celebrities.

Anyway, if you're interested, there's lots of coverage around today about the Show, which opens to the public tomorrow.

The Times has a variety here, while if you want to see a short clip of designer Arabella Lennox-Boyd have a look here (she sounds like a female Prince Charles!) and for the official show site, have a gander here.

Meanwhile my battle with the slugs in my small and rather unimpressive garden continues...