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Post by MyAdia on May 23, 2011 14:42:07 GMT -5
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Post by hibou on May 23, 2011 14:50:11 GMT -5
A tribute to Charlene? A very expensive pool? The photos leave me unimpressed. Sorry, this exhibit would not make me want to visit Monaco. It looks more like a Holiday Inn. The Queen looks lovely as usual but in the second photo, she is not amused. I wonder what Albert is saying. I wonder if he made amends for being late to her party? I hope he was on time for this one.
I see he left his princess home. I guess he doesn't want to take the chance she'll say something really inappropriate to the Queen. JMO
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Post by countess on May 23, 2011 14:51:58 GMT -5
"The show garden illustrates the interaction between architecture and landscape that characterises Monaco's spectacular scenery." ? REALLy, i guess i don't get it, looks like a wooden plank over a sterile, unimaginitive pool (shrug) sorry, i have to vote PR FAIL, considering all the talk about the millions being spent on showing off at the Chelsea garden show. at least he was smart enough to leave trashlene at home.......i thought gardening was her forte ROFL
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Post by MyAdia on May 23, 2011 14:54:31 GMT -5
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Post by countess on May 23, 2011 14:58:15 GMT -5
thanks for a photo of the whole thing.....i'm still not impressed YAWN like the non dynamic couple it leaves no lasting impression JMO
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Post by MyAdia on May 23, 2011 15:51:53 GMT -5
Ok good, I thought it was just me - I am alwys so critical - but that exhibit is NOT worth the $1,611,700 (1 million pound) that Albert paid for it. It may have cost even more than that amount because I read in an article that a fourth of the flowers grown for the exhibit had died (I'll post). This man really believes that money can buy any and every thing. Here's the original article I had posted on RoyalDish about the exhibit. From the Daily Mail:
Prince Albert’s flower show quest 1st October 2010 by Richard Kay
The Chelsea Flower Show is accustomed to spectacular gardens from the cash-rich eager to catch the Queen’s eye and win best in show. But nobody will have lavished as much money in an effort to win the top prize as Monaco’s ruler will do next year.
Prince Albert is set to splash out more than £1million on a model of his tax-free principality designed by award- winning British horticulturist Sarah Eberle.
He has told his team he wants to win at all costs. ‘Albert sees the garden as a way to convince top earners Monaco is not just a casino town and a place for the super-rich to shelter money,’ I am told.
But he also covets the prize so it can be accepted by his statuesque fiancee, South African swimmer Charlene Wittstock, whom he marries days after next June’s show.
Roger Shine, one of Prince Albert’s closest friends, says: ‘The garden will be grown in Italy and France and shipped to England. Our plan was approved by the Royal Horticultural Society in 2009 but we have needed all this time to execute it.’
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Post by MyAdia on May 23, 2011 16:30:30 GMT -5
Here are some of the other exhibits in the show U.S. actress Gwyneth Paltrow holding a copy of her recipes book 'Notes From My Kitchen Table' poses in the B&Q Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 23, 2011. The show garden, the tallest-ever garden at the show, showcases the notion that we should be planting and producing food wherever we can since it is estimated that food in London would run out in four days if supplies ceased.Gardeners are seen in the Irish Sky Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 23, 2011. The show garden is inspired by Dublin animator Richie Baneham who created the visual effects work in Avatar and by the concept of Restaurant in the Sky where people dine sitting around a table hanging from the arm of a crane. The annual Chelsea Flower Show attracts many thousands of visitors every year who are interested in the inspirational horticultural event.An artisan garden, Hae-woo-so (Emptying One's Mind) is seen at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 23, 2011. Hae-woo-so is the Korean word for the traditional Korean toilet which was located in the backyard far from the house, and this garden design is inspired by the Korean belief that going to the toilet is part of a natural cycle which has its place in a garden.A gardener works in the British Heart Foundation Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 23, 2011. The show garden inspired by the human heart in a pop art style highlights the healing properties of plants. The annual Chelsea Flower Show attracts many thousands of visitors every year who are interested in the inspirational horticultural event.
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Post by hibou on May 23, 2011 16:36:33 GMT -5
I think most of the cost of this was in the teak decking for the fountain and the little tiles they used in the pool. I'm still trying to figure out why this thing cost so much. It's so ordinary. The designer is not creative nor imaginative. I've seen spectacular work at the Philadelphia Flower Show that could put this to shame, and for half the cost at least. If I had been the designer, I would have re-created one of Monaco's most romantic spots, or chosen horticultural vignettes that display the elegance and "paradise" of Monaco to entice the viewer to visual being there and then want to come visit. I will find it interesting if Albert doesn't win and what repercussions the designer will face. JMO
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Post by MyAdia on May 23, 2011 16:46:16 GMT -5
Monaco's exhibit is more commercial - like an advertisement to come to one of Monaco's expensive spas, whereas the others have a natural or environmental theme. Albert really missed out on this one. I love the HESCO Garden below, beautiful and environmental. Visitors look at the HESCO Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 23, 2011. The show garden has been designed to draw attention to the importance of water power in the industrial evolution of the city of Leeds, England. The annual Chelsea Flower Show attracts many thousands of visitors every year who are interested in the inspirational horticultural event.
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Post by countess on May 23, 2011 16:53:58 GMT -5
par for the game PR FAIL!!! everything he's involved with turns to ca-ca JMO but it shows the whole shallow, artificial veneer of moronaco, so in that respect it's perfect, not a million plus perfect but reflects their character anyway
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Post by hibou on May 23, 2011 16:56:23 GMT -5
Monaco's exhibit is more commercial - like an advertisement to come to one of Monaco's expensive spas, whereas the others have a natural or environmental theme. Albert really missed out on this one. I love the HESCO Garden below, beautiful and environmental. Visitors look at the HESCO Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 23, 2011. The show garden has been designed to draw attention to the importance of water power in the industrial evolution of the city of Leeds, England. The annual Chelsea Flower Show attracts many thousands of visitors every year who are interested in the inspirational horticultural event.This is exactly what I mean, about romantic. I love this one!! I like the sky one too, and the heart one was very original. Albert's looks like something from someone's backyard. It's boring. JMO
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Post by smt on May 23, 2011 17:06:18 GMT -5
We can only hope that Fat Al asked HM for some advice on how to get rid of Trampolina. Here's my advice ... dump her into the middle of the ocean and let's see how well she can really swim! I have a feeling the sharks would say "... what's going on? First they dump Osama and now a human hanger!"
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Post by paca on May 23, 2011 17:56:10 GMT -5
LOL I wonder who in Monaco would have enough space for a pool and garden apart from the blob. this is so nothing to do with Monaco. There is no lavender in Monaco, unless someone has some on their balcony....
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Post by hibou on May 23, 2011 19:04:18 GMT -5
LOL I wonder who in Monaco would have enough space for a pool and garden apart from the blob. this is so nothing to do with Monaco. There is no lavender in Monaco, unless someone has some on their balcony.... paca is there anything about this display that relates to Monaco?
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Post by paca on May 23, 2011 19:07:39 GMT -5
em....nope....looking at the pic nothing triggers Monaco....there is a reminder of the Pierre et vacances in Cap d'ail though, but that's one of the uglier ones of their venues....
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Post by cm7007 on May 23, 2011 22:14:24 GMT -5
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At the risk of sounding snooty - It looks like a typical Beverly Hills, CA backyard lap pool. $1.6 million?! If it should win - $600,000 went to the "garden pool" $1,000,000 to bribe the judges!
Is there any end to the insults and stupidity this group of idiots will continue to hurl on the world!?
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Post by hibou on May 24, 2011 6:58:20 GMT -5
At the risk of sounding snooty - It looks like a typical Beverly Hills, CA backyard lap pool. $1.6 million?! If it should win - $600,000 went to the "garden pool" $1,000,000 to bribe the judges! Is there any end to the insults and stupidity this group of idiots will continue to hurl on the world!?[/quote] You were far more generous than I was. I thought it looked like a pool at an upscale Holiday Inn. For a horticultural show, the landscaping left me unimpressed. There was no originality to it. If they were going for a sleek "modern" effect, the designer failed. It's not even good "1950's" retro which is may be what they were aiming for - you know a hint a Rainier and Grace again? This is a misguided hommage to Charlene with the pool. If this is the new Monaco, the hotels will really end up down-graded to a Holiday Inn status. JMO
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Post by paca on May 24, 2011 7:22:16 GMT -5
I saw some pics of another garden, which was done by I think the Malaysian tourist board. I haveto say it was much more inviting for a holiday then ALberts. Btw it seems that Camilla, Andrew and Beatice were there too, plus heaps of other celebs...Albert was only mentioned as being there too...guess another PR fail for Monaco as well as Albert as well as there tasteless wedding spectacle...
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Post by paca on May 24, 2011 7:31:40 GMT -5
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Post by paca on May 24, 2011 7:49:05 GMT -5
www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23953041-these-chelsea-gardens-are-defying-natures-way.doAbout the Monaco garden: "A Monaco Garden" proves to be a luxuriously appointed swimming pool with sun-loungers. ("I listen to money singing," Philip Larkin wrote: "It is intensely sad.") Even those gardens with appealingly practical planting (increasingly adapted to dry conditions this year, with lots of valerian, alliums, verbascums, acanthus and tulbaghias) must boast whopping great columns too, or a shed lavishly adapted from a shipping container. Rills of water bubble up everywhere, inexplicably.
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