RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW 2024 // Cottoverdi

Welcome to my vlog from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024 Press Day. A truly enchanting day full of garden delights and stunning show gardens with some spellbinding plant and flower combinations.
Let me know, in the comments, which is your favourite garden and whether you spotted any trends.
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024 ‘Gardens’ Webpage: www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/r...
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[@veronicadeeang6599]

I loved all the gardens at The Royal Chelsea Flower Show

[@cottoverdi]

yes, I loved so many of them this year 😊

[@veronicadeeang6599]

Thank you so much for presenting the beautiful Royal Chelsea Flower Show. I will truly remember all my past experiences at The Royal Chelsea Flower show.

[@cottoverdi]

Thanks Veronica. So glad you enjoyed it 🌸🌸🌸

[@penelopehammerton2907]

Thank you Annette, really delighted to see your take on the Chelsea Flower Show. Weren't the Roses fantastic. Gardens seemed so much more relaxed with planting in that fashion too. Richly deserved ticket to Chelsea 👏🌺🌼🌸

[@cottoverdi]

Wow, thanks Penelope. Yes, I loved every minute and I feel so lucky to have been able to visit on Press day; it was really special. Glad you enjoyed the video. 🌸🌸😊

[@oas1224]

Thanks for sharing this experience with us. The planing schemes are getting more and more relaxed, loving that. Have a nice day Anette.

[@cottoverdi]

Glad you enjoyed it 😊 Thanks for watching.

[@jimmydemetriou7847]

Hi Annette. Wow, you did a wonderful job with your video work. In just 20 minutes you captured so much and then did the editing. The Chelsea people should be paying you for making a great video to show off all that beauty and yet you could have just taken it all in for yourself and not bothered. Thank you. XX

[@cottoverdi]

Thank you so much Jimmy. Wow, what lovely words of encouragement. Thank you, thank you. 😊😊

[@sc3pt1c4L]

Outstanding! When you gave the warning about the music, I was dreading it, but what a beautiful accompaniment and reminder of my childhood. Excellent footage too. Thank you!

[@cottoverdi]

Glad you enjoyed it! and, Phew, so happy to hear that the music was bearable - it's a tricky thing to select music because everyone has varied tastes...! 😊

[@susanmeek4947]

What a wonderful presentation! It was nice to see the description before each garden was shown.

[@cottoverdi]

Glad you liked it. Thanks Susan. 🌸😊

[@janekozlovsky9383]

What an amazing job you did on this video! That was absolutely beautiful. Thank you for bringing us along. It's one of my dreams to actually attend one day and see it all in person. Loved the music and very tastefully done Annette. ❤

[@cottoverdi]

Thank you so much Jane. That means a lot to me - quite a bit of effort goes into the editing! It really is a spectacular show and definitely worth a visit if you can make it. 😊

[@wendybartlett6717]

Annette, that was so enjoyable. I'm going to watch it again! Favourites were the N.G.S. garden and the Bridgerton garden. Thank you for taking us along and well done on receiving your well deserved invitation.

[@cottoverdi]

Gosh, thanks Wendy. I'm so glad you enjoyed it. the NGS garden was my favourite too. I wonder whether it will win the 'Peoples Choice award'?

[@sallykaylevison715]

Annette, I loved your Chelsea Flower show. The music and your videos were so beautful!After watching you Chelsea Flower show, I found the BBC utube. Thank you so much. I would have never looked. You are my favorite Utube garden show to watch. Cosmos and the tiger cat are sweet.

[@cottoverdi]

oh Wow, Sally, Thank you so much! I hope we can bring you many more hours of fun and frolics in the garden 😁🌸🌱

[@studiorootsjmb7098]

Love all the bearded irissis specialy the Rajah, the purple poppy's are stunning and the sweet columbine in all colors. And so many colors of Geum, I sew today that my cosmos atrosangunius was 2e place at the RHS. I love this plant so much, it smells like cocolade, and with the flowers I dye my own wool. Thanks for your video Annet, and kind regards from Joke (The Netherlands).

[@cottoverdi]

Thanks, yes, the colours were so vibrant in some of the gardens, in contrast to other gardens where the tones were so much more subdued. Both beautiful. And 'hi' to you in the Netherlands! 👋🏼🌸🌸

[@tracybromage-spencer1882]

What a treat. I am particularly impressed by the garden at 18:40. I love the stillness of oriental gardens but this had pops of colour. I am also becoming a lover of moss! Moss on stone and creative ways of filling space and also the use of white in a garden. Thanks Annette.

[@cottoverdi]

Glad you enjoyed it Tracy, yes, the Japanese gardens are always something special. 😊

[@user-hp9ml8pv8h]

Thank you, Annette for taking me along to the Chelsea Flower Show. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you, my dear.😊

[@cottoverdi]

Glad you enjoyed it Jenny. Thanks for watching 😊🌸🌸

[@eanmackay4009]

Ean all the way from Adventure Farm and Nature Reserve in Tobago 🇹🇹 in the Caribbean. Its may dream to visit The Chelsea Flower Show.. Thanks for sharing these highlights for all those who could not be there.

[@cottoverdi]

Oh hi! 👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼 So glad you enjoyed the video. Chelsea Flower Show is just incredible - by far the best flower show in the whole world! 😁

[@nicholasryan5401]

Greeting's from Ireland, Great video and thank you for showing us some of the garden's which were beautiful. We have a flower garden show called bloom in Dublin on the June bank holiday every year which is the biggest flower show in Ireland.

[@cottoverdi]

Thanks Nicholas - glad you enjoyed the tour. Bloom sounds wonderful - gardens are so pretty in June, especially with all the roses! 😊

[@myhealing1004]

Flower show, that's great.

[@cottoverdi]

Thank you 😊

[@eliev7844]

What an amazing day you must’ve had Annette! Thanks for taking us along ❤

[@cottoverdi]

Thanks for watching Elie, yes, it was incredible - I feel so lucky and some of those gardens were just stunning!

[@Ruby_Cook]

Suberb thank you really enjoyed watching

[@cottoverdi]

Thanks Ruby! 🌸🪴😊

[@diannasmith1313]

Thank you for this beautiful video!

[@cottoverdi]

Glad you enjoyed it Dianna! 😊

[@richbishop7896]

Thanks for taking me along Annette. This is the only opportunity for me to see these gardens. I loved all the gardens and would find it difficult to choose one. I do like gardens that include water. Bonny zone 5b Canada

[@cottoverdi]

Hi Bonny, I'm so happy to be able to bring a flavour of RHS Chelsea to everyone who cannot make it to this show. It really is the best and most incredible display imaginable. Glad you enjoyed the video. 😊🌸🌸

[@AJsGreenThumbLLC]

I fell in love all over again with the rose exhibit!! Wowza! THANK YOU ANNETTE!

[@cottoverdi]

Thanks AJ. Yes, David Austin always delivers and so I just had to include his wonderful display. 🌹🌹🌹

[@user-kn2mo2oo7r]

Can you go back and film more. I have always wanted to see Chelsea Fower Show. Thanks!

[@cottoverdi]

So sorry - I have more footage but I’m only allowed to upload 20mins max. I have other videos from previous years on my channel. Every year is different but all are stunning and beautiful.

[@youlamatou]

23.58 The roses look impeccable. We will have 32C today and on Wednesday it will reach 34C. I walk to the sea though and swim. I think my pansies will die.

[@cottoverdi]

Thank you so much. Gosh, that sounds like very warm weather for June!

[@youlamatou]

@cottoverdi 37C next week, oh my God!!!! You are very eloquent in your videos and I really admire you for that. Not many people have this talent. One little secret, I used to correspond with Prince Philip. In his first letter he wrote "Dear Mrs Mougiou" by hand. The rest of his letters were written by his equerries. I used to live in Corfu and the year 2007 he visited Mon Repos , the ex palace which was his birthplace. I was working there as an antiquity guard, it is a museum now. Unfortunately I missed him as my supervisor changed my shift and I went to work 3 hours after Prince Philip had been to the palace.

[@cottoverdi]

Thank you! What a lovely compliment. Sounds like you have lead a very interesting life! 😁

[@VivSimmons]

Thank you for a lovely view of Chelsea without the chatter. I think you must have put a lot of work into that video.

[@cottoverdi]

Thanks Viv, yes, it was tricky but I really wanted to share the enjoyment. 😊🌸

[@cgj3888]

For me the Best in Show was Octavia Hills Garden and Gold for ST James;s others I found to be bland and uninspiring More a case of walking pass rather than walking thro. Where was the joy and excitement of old . Need Your Help😀

[@cottoverdi]

I loved the NGS garden - right up my street, although I don't grow any azaleas (yet!). I also loved Wateraid for the plantings along the water and the Octavia Hills garden for all those colours!

[@jomeyer13]

I subscribed because you named some bushes and plants used. i so wanted to know the names of the plants. even rhs one has to search for awhile to find plant lists.

[@cottoverdi]

Thanks Jo. I try to name most of my plants in my garden tours and when I plant out my beds so hopefully you will find that useful. 😊

[@user-wn7fr2wy6o]

Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful experience. One day I would like to go myself. What kind of grass is planted next to the geranium at 7:28? Greetings from Munich

[@cottoverdi]

Hi Anne, glad you enjoyed the video. That looks like Briza Maxima to me but the plant lists can be found online for most of the gardens. and 'hi' to you in Munch! We went to the Christmas Market there many years ago and had the BEST time! 😊

[@margaridamaia9187]

You have a space with so much potential Anette!! I like you a lot but I think you should give more prominence and space to wildlife! Not so many Dahlias or.....obelisks...... Do you know Knepp? And It would be divine a wildlife pond !!!!!!

[@cottoverdi]

Thanks. That means a lot to me. Just to reassure you that our garden is dedicated to wildlife. We have creatures in abundance and plan to re-home some hedgehogs in the near future. We have also been planning a stream for many years but these things take time when it's just Richard and I doing all the work. 😊