Chris is bright and early with the minibus, into which we load all the essential kit we need for the first few days of staging (including a few crates of very essential beer for the evening refreshment).
The team involved in the main tasks of staging all the 3,000+ plants assemble at 10am for a briefing - ready for their 6am start tomorrow morning. No easy task - from Wednesday to Sunday I need them to work 12 hour days, and whilst ive given them all areas of responsibility on the exhibit, I'm bound to change things as we go along. The Chelsea "old hands" know how things are done and smile as I describe the planting plans and layout...
So whats happening tomorrow? The first 3 lorries of plants arrive, and the team have to unload and stow away all the plants; in sensible places, all stock of the same type located together, and above all, intact and undamaged. A mistakes at this stage will cost us dearly as we cannot afford to keep shipping replacement stock to London.
I said yesterday that all the trees were in place - no so, theres one to move, which will take 4 of us, so ive saved that for the lads tomorrow. We also need to get all the large plant material into place, ready for thursday when more and more lorries of plants will arrive and the detailed work of staging the smaller plants begins.
The team involved in the main tasks of staging all the 3,000+ plants assemble at 10am for a briefing - ready for their 6am start tomorrow morning. No easy task - from Wednesday to Sunday I need them to work 12 hour days, and whilst ive given them all areas of responsibility on the exhibit, I'm bound to change things as we go along. The Chelsea "old hands" know how things are done and smile as I describe the planting plans and layout...
So whats happening tomorrow? The first 3 lorries of plants arrive, and the team have to unload and stow away all the plants; in sensible places, all stock of the same type located together, and above all, intact and undamaged. A mistakes at this stage will cost us dearly as we cannot afford to keep shipping replacement stock to London.
I said yesterday that all the trees were in place - no so, theres one to move, which will take 4 of us, so ive saved that for the lads tomorrow. We also need to get all the large plant material into place, ready for thursday when more and more lorries of plants will arrive and the detailed work of staging the smaller plants begins. None of the smaller plants have planned positions - we do this by eye as the stock arrives, working to a theme and my colour and texture ideas. Good job ive got a great team of people with me; we'll publish profiles on some of them on the website so check that out as the week progresses (http://www.hillier.co.uk/)
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