We only had evening tickets so we couldn't get in before 17:30, but it turned out to be just the right amount of time to spend there for a couple of people who like flowers enough, but not too much. It took us about 2 hours to walk round the entire site and look at all the show gardens - much less time than it would have taken if we were there in the middle of the day, as the crowds had thinned considerably by the time we arrived - then we went to a reception at the Cancer Research UK Garden (who we'd got the invitation from). We didn't take any pictures of that garden as it was full of people by the time we got there, but it won a Gold Award and you can see pictures here.
Below are a couple of the other gardens:
Lights and Colours of the Alps
The Global Stone Bee Friendly Plants Garden
The Waterless Water Garden (I'm not making these names up, I promise)
The Ace of Diamonds Garden.This garden was in the media a lot because it featured a ridiculously large and expensive diamond, and whilst it wasn't on display all the time, when it was there were security guards all over the place. When we got there, there were no security guards, so I guess we just had to make do with the plastic replica in the middle of the picture...
And finally, an indication of the lengths to which some people will go to indulge their gardening obsession...A lovely way to spend an evening. I'm not sure I would pay to go in future, but if you're really into gardening I can see the attraction :).
