Chelsea Flower Show episode 1 2020

Chelsea Flower Show episode 1 2020

Chelsea Flower Show episode 1 2020: Sophie Raworth and Joe Swift kick off a week of programmes from their own back gardens celebrating the very best of RHS Chelsea Flower Show. They look back over the last ten years of the event and feature the magnificent gardens that have won the highest accolade of RHS Best Show Garden.


 

 



Mary Berry celebrates one of the greatest rose growers in the Great Pavilion, Arit Anderson looks at the trendiest houseplants, and we join Rachel De Thame in her garden to revel in the joy of tulips. Toby Buckland and Adam Frost share the best of the small gardens, and we relive some of the glitziest celebrity moments. We also launch the BBC RHS People’s Choice of the Decade vote, where the public get to vote on their favourite People’s Choice-winning garden of the last ten years.

 

Chelsea Flower Show episode 1 2020

 

The first Royal Horticultural Society Great Spring Show was held in 1862, at the RHS garden in Kensington. Before this date the RHS had held flower shows from 1833 in their garden in Chiswick, which themselves had been preceded by fetes. The Kensington Garden was chosen as a site because the flower shows in Chiswick were experiencing falling visitor numbers due to problems such as poor transport links. The Great Spring Show was held at Kensington for twenty-six years but in 1888 the RHS decided to move the show to the heart of London.

The site chosen was the Temple Gardens, situated between the Embankment and Fleet Street, which had a recorded history dating back to 1307 and which were said to date from the time of the Knights Templar. The roses for which these Temple Gardens were famous were alluded to in Shakespeare’s Henry VI Part 1.

Highlights to the Chelsea Flower Show include the avant-garde show gardens designed by leading names with Floral Marquee at the centrepiece. The Show also features smaller gardens such as the Artisan and Urban Gardens.

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, formally known as the Great Spring Show, is a garden show held for five days in May by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in Chelsea, London. Held at Chelsea since 1912, it is the most famous flower and landscape gardens show in the United Kingdom, and perhaps in the world. The show is attended by members of the British Royal Family and attracts visitors from all continents.

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