1. Lily Allen has had a lily named after her. A vivid orange hybrid with a stroke of black, it's officially registered as Popstar, but you'll be able to ask for Lily Allen at your local garden centre. "It reminded her of a mug her grandmother gave her," said Liz Hyde of Twyford growers WH Hyde & Son.
2. Welcome to Yorkshire is promoting the region with a rhubarb crumble and custard garden. The nutritious emblem of the north is planted in a bowl amid swirling, overflowing yellow sedums. A drystone wall represents the topping, while an oak seat is shaped like a huge spoon. It will further confuse people who aren't even sure if rhubarb is a vegetable or fruit.
3. Trunk size matters: the Kebony - Naturally Norway garden boasts a 60-year-old pine, but L'Occitane reckons the olive tree in its Provençal landscape could be up to 400 years old.
4. The fridges in the spectacular £300,000 Trailfinders Australian garden, which features a pool with swim-up wetbar, are stocked entirely with cans of Fosters.
5. It is a vintage year for celery. Medwyn Williams, 10 times gold medallist at Chelsea and chairman of the National Vegetable Society, says his magnificent specimens wouldn't usually be ready until August. The hard winter hasn't been so good for Brussels sprouts and sweetcorn.
6. James Wong based his minimalist pavilion for the Tourism Malaysia garden on a traditional tropical village hall. The visiting WIs are
going to spit with envy.
7. Although gnomes are banned, there are stands exhibiting dog statues and Che Guevara outdoor beanbags.
8. The paperback beside the pool in the Children's Society "garden for the modern family" is You've Been Warned by James Patterson. Is designer Mark Gregory revealing his holiday reading or his dark humour? The 2007 thriller is about a nanny who suffers violent nightmares but enjoys an affair with the father of her young charges.
9. Piers Morgan reckons he could have judged the new Plant of the Year competition. "I know a small plant when I see one," he said, pointing to a tiny slipper orchid among the finalists. "It's not exactly Britain's Got Talent, is it? They need to put it out to a phone vote."
10. People really do swoon when Alan Titchmarsh stops to talk to them.
