This yr , the RHS Chelsea Flower Show exhibit from Raymond Evison Clematis will not only showcase a mountain chain of clematis cultivar that were bred by Evison ® and Poulsen ® during the latter part of the twentieth century and the other part of the twenty-first 100 , but also six Modern cultivars that have emerged from the 2014 Raymond J. Evison Ltd. breeding political program . These were also cover in Raymond ’s state - of - the - art , modern , and environmentally favorable Guernsey Clematis Nursery .
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The setting for this twelvemonth ’s showing will be an imaginary Guernsey seashore scene with 2,500 clematis in full salad days , some coming ashore in imitation wooden boats . Each boat will carry a cargo of bright colored clematis on a sea and shoreline write of dark blue , mauve , and light disconsolate flowering clematis , with white clematis flowers representing the crest of the waves or the breakers .
Show visitant will have the opportunity to take the air through the exhibit on a wooden serpentine walkway where the sauceboat are moored or beach on Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin , which will be litter with Guernsey seaweed , pebble , driftwood , and the periodic scallop , ormer , or oyster casing , and of course , mermaids ' purses .
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The display will boast a fisherman ’s hut , traditionally and locally made Guernsey willow fishing baskets , crab and lobster toilet , along with a vraic pannier that was used by donkeys in the yesteryear to enchant vraic ( seaweed ) to the discipline of the island .
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These baskets are being loaned for the exposition by Max and Claire Gaudion from ' Guernsey Willow Baskets , ' who still make these inheritance trade items , some of which are on the Heritage Craft Red List of endangered heritage trade .
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