Re: News from Chelsea Show
So glad you found time to write, Alessandra! and hope you caught up with the
other member of this list.
Did you find time to see the gold-medal-winning Kings Park, Western Australia,
exhibit???
Beverly
"Vinciguerra, Alessandra" wrote:
> Hello to all of you,
> I am in London and this is the fourth day of the show - tomorrow it will
> finish. It is an incredible experience, absolutely exhausting but
> exhilarating as well. Build up days were labout and labour and labour,
> everything had to be at its best -except for us crew, we were deep in the
> mud all the time. Oh, of course the weather was dreadful, rain and cold -
> really cold I mean, what we would have in February maybe, 11 C when I
> arrived from a 28 C Rome. And it rained almost always. We have a really
> tropical display, rainforest plants mostly, and our plants did not like the
> weather too much -for instance, Victoria amazonica that we are displaying
> for the 1st time ever at Chelsea just refused to bloom. As I may have
> already told the list, the aim of this adventure is to make the general
> public aware that this garden, La Mortella, exists and that it is open for
> visits. I think in this sense we are having quite a success, we see every
> day thousands of people and they all seem interested. We handed out millions
> of leaflets, answered hundreds of questions, smiled billions of times. We
> also received a silver gilt medal, (quite a strange name for anaward, isn't
> it) however it is the second best, so we are rather pleased.
> Today I met David Feix, on his way back from Crete, and we had a nice chat
> about -guess- plants, and he told me about the plants he has mentioned to
> the list recently.
> The strangest coincidence is that at the very next stand behind ours there
> is a woman from this list, whose name I can't remember now because we met in
> a hurry duirng the build up phase, and we promised we would talk later but
> we haven't managed yet. (So, if you are reading this now show up tomorrow,
> just to say hi).
> The stars of our display are four: Victoria of course, a tall composition in
> pink shades towered by a giant Medinilla magnifica, Johannesteismanias palm
> trees from Thailand, and a huge Aechmea maria-reginae. But the real star is
> Lady Walton, an eccentric, good humored, dashing old lady that you'd all
> love; and I' ll explain in the future why I say so.
> And yes, Chas, we have hundreds of bromeliads and I am dutifully taking
> pictures of them for you, and I wrote down a list that I'll send you when I
> have time to tape it.
> What else? It was nice to sit down here and talk to you all, but I am almost
> fainting 'cause I am exhausted. So, more to come, for now
> ARRIVEDERCI
> Alessandra
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