Was watching Chelsea (the flower show ) on the tv chez my mum the other day and heard a piece that I totally recognise but can't for the life of me place.

Wondering if anyone can help me either by recognising the piece or by knowing where the website is that recognises music?

Rhythm best described as "bom bom bom bom bala bala bala bala bala bala bom bom bala baaaaa" the boms being detached notes, say crotchets and the balas being slurred duplet quavers, slurred from the ba to the la (!) so the bow changes with each b.

Strings, very homophonic. Quite a bit of dynamic change, if memory serves.

Gut feeling suggests Haydn or Handel, but no idea really...

Tune in solfa:

fa fa fa fa fa-mi mi-soh soh-fa fa-mi mi-fa fa-la la la la-soh-soh....

That's just the first phrase (rhythm and tune, hope they fit ) the second is similar but I forget how it ends

Delibes -Flower duet (Lakme) ??

On subsequent thinking - most likely not cos it doesn't match anything you described!!
And as I don't watch TV I haven't heard it

Go on, sing it on Youtube and we'll tell you !

I think this is a bit from the middle of Vltava (Moldau) by Smetana. Possibly the part where the river flows past a wedding party ??

YES! That's it, thanks Maggie - I knew as soon as someone said I'd recognise it which is why it was bugging me! THANK YOU!

& major kudos for making sense of what I wrote

actually, I was quite chuffed, as I got it from the rhythm, and only checked the sol-fa as an afterthought
your description must have been pretty good though !

Great minds?? I am even more impressed that you made sense of my rhythm - the rhythmic version of tonic doo-dah?