Photo By TheOrator.Press (TO.P Photograpy): Entrance To The Royal Chelsea Flower Show 2023
@poppysturleyflowers Specializes In Stunning & Stylish Yet Simple Floral Designs And Runs Workshops To Help People Develop Their Own Floral Design Skills. Her RHS Chelsea Flower Show Installation For This Very British Event Was Sponsored By French Macaroon Makers @maisonladuree.
Danny Clarke Has The Dannahue Rose Named After Him By Rose Connoisseurs David Austin
Photo By TheOrator.Press (TO.P Photograpy): We Were Thrilled To Meet Danny Clarke aka The Black Gardener @theblackgardener Who Has Had A Rose Named After Him By Rose Experts ‘David Austin’. During Our Chat He Told Us How Happy He Is To Have Previously Met The Queen At The Royal Chelsea Flower Show And Now Be Subsequently Meeting The King At The Show This Year. It Just Shows That This South Londoner Has Done So Well With His Gardening Green Fingers, Good Manners And Confident Yet Affable & Approachable Personality.
(Photo: davidaustinroses.co.uk) The Dannahue Rose Is Described By Creator David Austin As Having An Apricot Hue With A Natural Ability To Thrive In Containers And Shaded Areas And Sit Happily Against Walls or Fences, Making It Perfect For City Spaces (As Well As Cottage Gardens). The Regal Rose Experts Have Pledged To Donate £10,000 To ‘Grow2Know’ The Not For Profit Social Enterprise Which Operates To Develop Outdoor Community Spaces In London.
In Collaboration With @Grow2Know Danny Also Presented The Smallest Garen At The Chelsea Flower Show This Year, Highlighting The Gap Between The Rich And The Poor And The Lack of Green Spaces In Certain Areas Compared To Others.
Photo By TheOrator.Press (TO.P Photograpy): Mr Clarke @TheBlackGardener Conceived The Idea of Commissioning A Garden Installation To Be Shown At The RHS Royal Chelsea Flower Show Called ‘Closing The Gap’ To Advocate More Investment In More Green Spaces In Urban Areas To Give More People Access To Nature Which Is Great For Improving Community Well-Being, Mental Health And Longevity of Life. It Received A Visit From The King On Press Day (Monday May 22 2023) And Ultimately Won A Chelsea Flower Show 2023 Silver Gilt Medal.
King Charles III Liked The Idea So Much That He Promised To Take A Look At The History Making Smallest Chelsea Flower Show Garden Installation On His Tour of The Show And He Did Just That. Video Courtesy @TheBlackGardener
Danny’s Friend, Fellow Garden Designer, Vegan Advocate, And Author of The Garden of Vegan, Cleve West, Won Gold For His Show Garden In The Construction Catergory With The ‘Centre Point Garden’. Designing Since 1990 Cleve Has Won Six RHS Gold Medals Over The Years As A Garden Design Expert.
@Centrepoint UK @cleve_west Author of The Garden of Vegan
Photo By TheOrator.Press (TO.P Photograpy): Sadlers Wells The Famous Dance Company Will Be Opening The Sadlers Wells Hip Hop Academy In Stratford East In 2024 (At The Former Site of The Olympic Stadium). In The Meantime They Have Submitted A Garden @the_rhs Chelsea Flower Show 2023 In The ‘All About Flowers’ Category. It Is Simply Called The Sadlers Wells East Garden And Was Designed By @alexaryanmills. Happily It Won A Silver Gilt Medal.
In Our Interview With Alexa She Spoke Very Eloquently About The Flowers Dancing, Moving And Creating Shapes And About How Much of The Garden Infrastructure Was Either Recycled or Repurposed, As Climate Change Was Taken Into Consideration. We Look Forward To Sharing Our Full Interview With Her Later. @sadlerswells #sadlerswellseast @alexryanmills
This Lovely Lady (Who Was In Attendance With A Girl Friend On A Girls’ Days Out) Likes To Garden And Is One of The Many Members of The Public Who Visit The RHS Chelsea Flower Show Each Year Simply To Enjoy The Flowers, Pick up A Few Tips And Soak Up The Atmosphere. It Really Is A Great Day Out For Friends, Family, Amateurs, Professionals And Celebrities. @the_rhs rhs.org.uk/Shows-Events Photo: TO.P Photograpy
Every Year A Great Day Out!
Photo By TheOrator.Press (TO.P Photograpy): Entrance To The Royal Chelsea Flower Show 2023
This Year At The RHS Chelsea Flower Show The Chelsea Embankment Entrance (aka The Bullring Gate) There Was A Stunning Floral Installation By Poppy Sturley @poppysturleyflowers Which Encouraged Vistors To Take Time & Smell The Roses. It Seems To Have Encouraged Natural Wildlife To Do The Same As Emplified By This Butterfly’ Flying Visit. The Installation Really Set The Scene On Entering This Floral Fantasy Land. And It Sealed In The Sense of Fabulous Flower Power On Exit Too. It Was Stunning.
Comedian & Strictly Champion Bill Bailey Quick Steps Through The Roses & Kindly Poses
Photo By TheOrator.Press (TO.P Photograpy): We Bumped Into Bill Bailey @billbailey Who Was Taking A Turn Through The David Austin Rose Display Studio. We Had To Congratulate Him On Winning Strictly 2020 With Oti Mabuse @otimabuse Who Was Recently Still Buzzing About Meeting The King A Few Days Earlier Having Presented An Award @princestrust. Bailey Was Most Gracious And It Was A Joy To See Him Quick Stepping His Way Through The Show And Being Photographed (Including By Us). He Promised Us An Interview So We Look Forward To Chatting To Him On Our Comedy Page In Due Course.
Photo By TheOrator.Press (TO.P Photograpy): davidaustinroses
Evergreen Pop Star Rick Astley Stays Looking Good By ‘Never Giving Up’ The Simple Pleasures of Life
Photo By TheOrator.Press (TO.P Photograpy): The Evergreen & Naturally Soulful Rick Astley @officialrickastley Was Also In The House (Well, The Gardens Actually) And Kindly Spoke To TheOrator.Press on Press Day. He Was Full of Pride For His Daughter Emilie @emilie.bausager.landscapes She Was Showing A Garden Along With Horticultural Colleague Ameilia @ameliabouquetgardendesign Later That Week Emilie & Amelia Did Infact Win A Chelsea Flower Show 2023 Silver Gilt Medal For Their Energy Garden.
We Are Glad To See That Their @energygardenldn Project Included Sprucing Up Brockley Station, South East London, An Area We Know Very Well. The Project Helps Communities To Build And Maintain Gardens & Solar projects on London’s Railways. Such A Simple But Fantastic Idea As We All Naturally Gaze Out of The Window When We Travel On Trains. Rick Posted That He Was Pleased To See That The Mayor of London Was On Board @officialrickastley
We Were Pleased To See Rick Looking So Well And Simply Had To Ask How He Keeps So Youthful, Spruced Up And Well Maintained Himself. He Tells Us He Is A Man Who Loves A Simple Life, His Music. His Wife. And His Daughter. What A Beautiful Answer!
We Shared With Rick (As We Do With Some Great Looking Celebrities, Including Anthea Turner) The Open Secret of Caribbean Beauty And Youthful Looks That ‘Black Don’t Crack’ Due To Being Blessed With High Quanities of The Extra Protective Molecule ‘Melanin’ A Fundamental Component of Darker Skin. Being of A Jamaican Background We Know This To Be True As It Is Evident Amongst So Many Members of Our Community. And We Pointed Out That DNA Tests Are Very Popular & Readily Available These Days, Especially Since The Success of The BBC Geneology Series Who Do You Think You Are? So A DNA Test Can Easily Confirm How Much Black Ancestry There Is In One’s Personal DNA. Happily Rick And Co. Have A Sense of Humour.
Nonetheless Many Caucasion People Do Infact Have Black Ancestry, Actress And Co. Football Club Owner Along With Serena, Natalie Portman Famously Being One of Them @natalieportman. Oh How We’d Love To Meet And Have A Deep Chat With Julia Roberts @juliaroberts And Sir Tom Jones @realsirtomjones. The One Drop Rule Was Effectively Overturned By The 1967 Supreme Court Case of Loving v Virginia But Had Decreed That Even ‘One Drop’ of Black Ancestry Meant A White Person Was A Black Person And Would Be Subject To America’s Racial Caste System. Sometimes It Worked The Other Way Too, Where A Mixed Race Person Could Pass As White. At The End Of The Day Their Is Only One Race. The Human Race.
It Is Foreseeable That Alot of Different People Will Be Making Alot of Interesting Discoveries Over The Coming Years Given The Increasing Ubiquity of Modern Day Advances In Technology And DNA Testing. Practical Terms It Means Previously Hidden Truths Are Increasingly Coming Out Into The Open In Different Areas of Contemporary Society. Including Policing & Detective Work. Science Is So Important In So Many Areas From Family, To Popular Technology, To Dectective Work & Policing. That’s Why TO.P (TheOrator.Press) Supports STEM Learning.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama Supports Stem Learning
@stemlearninguk Is Using The Garden And Nature To Help With Teaching Maths & Computers
The Power of Maths And Science And The Joys of Gardening Have Long Since Gone Together And Informed The Design of Many Historical Gardens. The Wonders of Any Era’s Modern Day Technologies Have Always Been Fascinating And Applied To Different Areas of Life. Hydrolic Engineering, Irrigation Systems, Spectacular Fountains In Oranate Gardens, And Symbolic Systematic Waterways For Instance. (A Great Example of This Is The UNESCO Protected Outstanding Garden Villa d’Este In Tivoli, Italy).
Historically However This Field of Engineering, Construction And Development Has Been Dominated By Men. Now, After A Long Time Coming, Greater Diversity In This Area Is Ever Increasing.
This Is Something Former First Lady Michelle Obama @MichelleObama Is Very Passionate About. In A Very Insightful 2017 Appearance On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert @StephenAtHome She Discusses Domestic And International Efforts In STEM (Science, Technology Engineering And Maths) Education. Including Efforts Made By America With Britian And Japan.
@MichelleObama44 Pointed Out That Meeting Communities On The Ground ‘Where They Are & When They Are’ Is Important And Having Peace Corp Volunteers Is Very Important In Helping To Make That Happen.
Let Girls Learn (Now Archived) Was An Obama Administration ‘USAid Education’ Initiative Which Established An Anglo-American Partnership With Mulberry School For Girls In Tower Hamlets, Supported By The Global Partnership For Education. The Initiative Established Lifelong Educational Relationships. www.stem.org.uk And Learning About Fundamental Elements of Plants & Gardens Is Part of That.
The Study of Bees & Their Activities Is A Popular Way To Study Sciences
Photo By TheOrator.Press (TO.P Photograpy): Entrance To The Royal Chelsea Flower Show 2023
Miss Tina Turner From Nutbush, Tennessee Joins The Rock Gods & Goddesses In The Sky As Her Passing Is Announced Mid-Week of The Chelsea Flower Show 2023. She Previously Received Roses From Gateshead Flower Festival Whilst In Tyne & Wear For A Concert At Gateshead International Stadium.
The Sad News That Tina Turner Has Passed Away Was Announced On Her Instagram Account @tinaturner On The Evening of Wednesday May 24th 2023, Mid Week During The RHS Chelsea Flower Show Week @the_rhs. Tributes Came Flooding In And News Coverage Was Dedicated To “The Queen of Rock n’ Roll” Transcending To A Sweet Symphony In The Sky.
Amongst The Coverage Was A Reminder That In 1990 The National Garden Festival, Gateshead, Tyneside, Dedicated A Rose To Her Which She Received When In Town Touring Her (1989) Foreign Affair Album And Due To Perform At Gateshead International Stadium. She Promised To Cultivate The Rose In Her New Garden In The South of France. The Peach Rose Was Reportedly Grown By One of The Late Queen’s Favourite Rose Growers.
There Were 5 National Garden Festivals Over The Decade From The Early 80s To The Early 90s, As Part of A Regeneration Programme Under The Then Conservative Environment Secretary Sir Michael Hestletine. They Focused On Repurposing Former Industrial Sites, One Every Two Years; Liverpool (1984), Stoke-On-Trent (86), Glasgow (88), Gateshead (90) And Ebbw Vale (92).
We Spotted The Tory Grandee At Chelsea This Year In The Area of The Rose Garden. Apparently He Based The UK National Garden Festival Idea On The German Post War Bundesgartenschau Rebuilding Programme. It Saw Germany’s Reconstruction Drive Include Bi-annual Garden Festivals Hosted By Different German Towns Since 1951 To The Present Day. Interesting. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/schedules/bbc_radio_newcastle#on-air
Is Romance Down The Plughole?
Photo By TheOrator.Press (TO.P Photograpy): The Evergreen Presenter Anthea Turner Was In Town On The Chelsea Flower Show Press Day As She Does Love Her Flowers And Has Been A Regular Attendee of The Floral Event For Years (As We Discovered When We Interviewed Her Last Summer At The Hampton Court Flower Show). Again She Was With Her Enigmatic Fiance Mark. But It Seems As Though Their Engagement (Which We Reported ON Last Year) Has Been Extended As Their Wedding Has Now Been Postponed “Until The Kitchen Gets Done” She Rather Unromatically Updated Us, As She Paradoxically Carried The Most Romantic Flower In The World. These Ones Here Look Outstanding And Are From Peter Beales classicroses.co.uk @AntheaTurner
She Tells Us That She Was Rcently Back From A Birthday Bash Abroad Celebrating The 60th Birthday of The Evergreen Liz Earle Who Loves Natuaral Plant Based Beauty Products @lizearleme.
A Few Days After The Chelsea Flower Show Anthea Had A Birthday Bash of Her Own With The Help of Italian Chef Aldo Zilli & His Restaurant @Lucarelli’s Harvey Nichols Knightsbridge.
French Chef Raymond Blanc Delivers Gold Star Charm With Va Va Voom
(Photo: @rockoystermedia): Meantime French Chef @RaymondBlanc & Owner of belmondlemanoir Was Looking Good In The Flesh After We At TheOrator.Press (TO.P) Spent Recent Weeks Watching Him On ITV In His Simply Raymond Blanc Saturday Morning Cooking Series
We Bumped Into Him At The Wedding Garden Where People, Including Us, Were Congratulating The Newly Weds On Their Horticultuaral Nuptials.
Happily Amongst The Merriment He Kindly Agreed To Grant Us An Interview Which We Very Much Look Forward To Bringing To You Soon. Enchante Monsieur. Merci.
The Happy Couple We Had Come Along To See Were Garden Designer @manoj_malde And His Long Term Partner @CliveGillmor. Manoj Is The RHS Diversity & Inclusivity Ambassador. It Was The First Time There Has Been A Wedding At The Show And It Took Place In His Very Own Garden Design Triumph ‘The Eastern Eye Garden of Unity’. Stunning Wedding Outfits @Steellifestyle (Based In India). Stunning Garden Installations By Sculptor @nicolasmoreton. Photo By TheOrator.Press (TO.P Photograpy):
Japanese Chelsea Flower Show Star Green Fingered ‘Mr Moss’ Has The Golden Touch With His Award-Winning Japanese Garden Designs And Reveals To Us That He Enjoys The Floral Style of A Certain British Designer, As We Conduct Our First Interview Through An Interpretor.
Photo By TheOrator.Press (TO.P): Mr Kazuyuki Ishihara Chelsea Flower Show 2023
On Press Day Monday May 22 2023 We Were Very Fortunate To Interview Mr Kazuyuki Ishihara, The Japanese Garden Designer Who Had Already Won An Impressive 11 Gold Medals At The Chelsea Flower Show Over The Years. By The End of This Year’s Event He Had Won 12 (www.kaza-hana.jp).
It Was Our First Time Interviewing Through An Interpreter, Which Was A Very Interesting Experience. Mr Ishihara Was Just As Charming And Animated As He Appears On TV And Was Even Beaming As We Spoke With Him Through His Interpreter. That Was Fellow Company Director, Junko Hara, Who Explained To Us What This Year’s Garden, The Biophilic Garden (Otsu Hanare) Is All About. At The Heart of It Is The Natural Flow & Connection of Energy And Its Connection To The Elements As Well As People. Mr Ishihara Is Also Known As Mr Moss Because He Uses So Much Moss In His Famous Garden Designs. We Look Forward To Sharing The Full Interview With You Later On.
Photo By TheOrator.Press (TO.P Photograpy): (www.kaza-hana.jp) Japanese/English Interpreter Junko Hara
Meantime His Love of Gardening Seems To Be Reflected In His Bold, Colourful, Bespoke Style And Fashion, So We Asked Him About It. And On Asking Him Where He Gets His Sylish Outfits From He Reveals That He Is An Admiring Fan And Patron of British Designer Paul Smith. Smith Himself Is A Big Fan of The Famous Flower Show And In 2006 Even Had The Paul Smith Rose Showcased At The Royal Event @paulsmithdesign @paulsmithjapan
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