If you love gardening, beautiful flowers or just a great day out then Chelsea Flower Show is the place for you! For one week in late May, the grounds of the Royal Hospital, where the Chelsea Pensioners live, are transformed into a gardening heaven from the incredible show gardens to stalls selling hoses, from the creative artisan gardens to a stand selling tractors!
There is the serious business of competing for awards for the exhibitors and, for the visitors, of getting to see it all without exhausting oneself. So, join me on a leisurely tour around the show gardens, the artisan gardens, the grand pavilion and the stunning flowers:
Arriving 2015
Looks like rather a posher affair back in the day!
Show gardens:
A beautiful garden for Prince Harry’s Sentabale charity
There was an charming Alice in Wonderland theme:
The Artisan gardens:
Celebrating old crafts
Magna Carta
Japanese order and beauty
Marking an incredible wartime escape story
And finally, the stunning plants and flowers themselves:
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- The RHS plant of the year, one of which is now in my garden
You can’t leave Chelsea without a ‘chat’ with a lovely pensioner!
Cheeky chappie
Beautiful place to visit and worth every penny! I was lucky enough to visit the Chelsea Flower Show about 7 years ago. A friend had a relative who made sculptures and had a display there… Nice blog you have btw 🙂
Thanks for your kind comments. I'm glad to read you've been to Chelsea too and with connections!