Chelsea Garden Show is truly a sight to behold
The show only runs for five days, but manages to pack in 157,000 visitors over that time, all determined to see the latest plants and the very best of garden designs. The Queen was there, too, and is going to be here in town next month, and occasional queen look-alike Helen Mirren, in Cambridge for a movie this spring, was also at the show. Oh, and for the shopper, there’s the latest garden stuff in abundance, including both sublime and unusual sculptures — a three-metre snail cast in bronze going for a mere $30,000 — I know people who’d pay that much to get the real ones out of... The star of the show in design was the Daily Telegraph-sponsored garden by Andy Sturgeon. It did get politely squishy at times, but no more than any large show, and when it means seeing garden design morphed into fine art, rare plants to drool over and unsurpassed floral arrangements, it’s worth every moment. It won a gold medal and Best in Show award, a remarkable and no doubt restorative triumph for a young designer, whose wife died suddenly last summer, leaving him with three young children.
Waterloo Record on 11.06.10 | File Under Garden Show | CommentsGarden Variety: Wake up, it's a Chelsea morning - A blog for the ...
The Royal Horticultural Society Spring Flower Show is underway in London this week on the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, and it is arguably the most famous flower show in the world and as much a part of the London social season as the... Queen Elizabeth was there to visit the show gardens, and you can have one, too, by visiting the RHS Chelsea web site for a copy of the plans. Garden Variety has put together a slideshow of photos from Chelsea , so you can visit the show without a plane ticket. The RHS presented its first spring flower show in 1862 and moved to the grounds of Chelsea hospital in 1905. We have our Philadelphia Flower Show, and the Brits have Chelsea. The area of land devoted to show gardens has increased steadily since 1970, and the show has become an important venue for watching trends. You are not required to use your full name when posting, but you should use a real e-mail address. New plants are often launched at the show and the popularity of older varieties often revives....
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Diarmuid Gavin pulls out of RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Fellow designer Roger Platts, who is designing the show sponsor M&G Investments show garden at Chelsea said last week that Gavin was to be opposite him at
Horticulture Week on Feb 09, 2010No garden for Diarmuid Gavin at Chelsea Flower Show
TV gardener Diarmuid Gavin will not design a garden for this year's Chelsea Flower Show, it has been reported. The celebrity gardener was expected to show
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Step into a new season of living color and scented blossoms this month, when the 8th annual New Jersey Flower and Garden Show offers a sneak peek at spring
NorthJersey.com on Feb 06, 2010Andy Sturgeon to design The Daily Telegraph garden for Chelsea Flower Show 2010
His 2008 gold-winning Chelsea garden for Cancer Research involved a wall of metal thought-bubbles. And this year? "I've got a model," he says,
Telegraph.co.uk on Feb 05, 2010Telegraph Chelsea gardener: "For my sons to lose their mother so young seems ...
Andy Sturgeon, the designer responsible for this year's Telegraph garden at the Chelsea Flower Show, returned late home to Brighton
Telegraph.co.uk on Feb 06, 2010
