If you love flowers, there's no better place to be than the Chelsea Flower Show.
Take a look at some of our favourite show gardens and floristry displays from this year's show.
Show Gardens
The Chelsea Flower Show prides itself on showcasing the very best in garden design and this year was no exception. Take a look at some our favourites from this year's show.
Bridgerton Garden
A must-see for any fans of the hit period drama, the Bridgerton Garden was inspired by the character Penelope Featherington's character arc during the third season. The garden was designed as a safe haven and sanctuary; a trees and hedges are planted around a sunken seating area to provide privacy and seclusion. However, the garden also represents Penelope's growth, so the unshaded parts of the garden are full of brightly coloured blooms to symbolise her growing confidence, and an eye-catching moon gate acts as a visual metaphor for her personal journey.
MOROTO no IE Garden
Designed by Kazuyuki Ishihara, this sanctuary garden blends together family life and the natural world to create a 'garden of happiness'. Lush greenery and blooms surround a central pool and waterfall, to create a colourful yet serene space, with buildings and manmade features artfully camouflaged by moss and greenery. Set in Japan, the garden includes a variety of native plants. Acers and pines in a variety of natural shades create a beautifully vibrant and varied backdrop, whilst bold purple irises add a delightful pop of colour.
RHS Britain in Bloom 60th Anniversary: The Friendship Garden
Britain in Bloom is the RHS initiative which encourages communities to garden together and create green spaces. This garden celebrates Britain in Bloom's 60th anniversary, and is designed to be a sustainable and accessible garden. It features a colourful wildflower meadow designed to encourage biodiversity, along with beehives and sustainably sourced materials.
Floristry
The RHS have introduced new categories and formats for floristry exhibits, allowing florists more options and creative freedom. 'Floral Creations' is a judged category for smaller designs, and this year florists have been challenged to create an exhibit around the theme of colour.
Alongside this was the unthemed 'Creative Spaces' category for larger installations, with florists given total freedom in their designs - allowing for some truly unique and innovative creations!
Take a look at some of the showstopping designs on display:
Spectrum of Fire - Lara Thorpe
Lara Thorpe earned the Florist of the Year award with this fiery creation. Red, orange, and yellow flowers were artfully arranged on a willow frame to mimic flames, with dark burgundy and purple flowers creating a charred look at the tips. The design captures fire's inherent duality as something both destructive and beautiful, and draws attention to the crucial issue of climate change, where wildfires are becoming more common.
Opera Splendour: A Floral Ode – Bonnie Chu
Inspired by the vibrant costumes of the Peking opera, this design uses cleverly arranged red and blue paper strips as the base, for a unique and dynamic look. We loved the use of tiny echinops flowers to mimic the appearance of the headpieces worn in the opera.
Nature’s Spectrum - Allison Hood
This beautiful tiered design won a silver medal, and was inspired by the circle of life and nature. All the blooms are seasonal British flowers, including alliums, foxgloves, ranunculus, and anemones, and the mixed textures create a free-flowing meadow-like look.
Seed to Ceiling: ‘As above, so below’ - Kitten Grayson
This breathtaking installation was designed to capture the lifecycle of flowers and plants, with vibrant greenery at the base shifting into dried flowers and garlands higher up in the dome.
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