More rhubarb

We like our rhubarb at the Green Valley Grocer.

We also like the Rhubarb Crumble and Custard garden - http://www.bbc.co.uk/chelsea/small-gardens/rhubarb-custard.shtml - exhibited at Chelsea Flower Show this week. This garden was awarded an RHS Silver Floral medal. It's a Yorkshire-themed garden celebrating the recently-granted protected name status of forced rhubarb from the Yorkshire Rhubarb Triangle (see our earlier blogs in February). Perhaps the publicity from this will activate the 'Delia effect' and the larger suppliers and retailers may struggle to meet demand for rhubarb - not here in the Colne Valley, thanks to our plentiful supply coming in now from gardeners and allotment holders within just a few miles, or hundred yards, of the shop.

We think the Leeds City Council Canal Garden  - http://www.leedsatchelsea.com/about - is pretty impressive too, despite no edible content! The 'Leeds Win at Chelsea' strapline that has been attached to reports is perhaps less convincing?