We can all glean ideas and inspiration from RHS Chelsea, even if we don’t have a ticket. Jean Vernon highlights five fascinating plots at this year’s show.
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Five great foliage plants
Five great foliage plants to grow to your garden, including hostas, heuchera, begonias, ferns and ivy.
Chelsea Style ways to enhance a balcony, terrace or a small garden
Enhance a small garden, balcony or terrace with a few stylish accessories to add colour, ambience and comfort to your plot.
Past Highlights of Chelsea Flower Show
RHS Chelsea Flower Show is not the centre of the universe, but usually for one week a year it becomes the pinnacle of all that is great in gardening and horticulture. This year the show is online, but here’s a taster of some of the highs from previous RHS Chelsea Flower Shows
Great ideas to take home from Chelsea Flower Show
Flower shows are great places to glean ideas and inspiration for our own gardens. You might not have the budget of a Chelsea Flower Show Garden to spend on your plot, but that doesn’t stop you stealing a few concepts from the shows. Why not spend your (potential) ticket and travel money on some plants and projects for your own garden and create your own take on the Chelsea spectacular at home?
Five ways to decorate a wall
Sometimes we forget about the vertical surfaces in our gardens, and yet in our homes we fill them with art. Why not transform a wall or a fence with something more decorative to create more of a focal point in the garden. You can opt for a decorative screen that makes an ornamental divide or […]
Ideas to take home from RHS Chelsea 2019
There are so many inspirational gems at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, many are unachievable in most gardens, but here are five ideas from this year’s show to take home for your plot
Five new plants at RHS Chelsea 2019
Richard Jackson picks his favourites from this year’s RHS Chelsea Plant of the Year
Five New Products at Chelsea Flower Show 2019
One of the lesser appreciated aspects of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, are the garden products and accessories launched at the show. Fortunately there’s a special award for The RHS Chelsea Garden Product of the Year and this year there’s a shortlist of twelve interesting products. Launched in 2011, the competition sees entries judged on […]
Five Smaller Show Gardens at RHS Chelsea 2019
Here is a sneak preview of some of the smaller gardens at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Jean Vernon picks five that provide a wealth of inspiration and food for thought
Five RHS Chelsea 2019 Show Gardens
Here’s a sneak preview of some of the amazing Show Gardens at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. It’s a tall order, but Jean Vernon picks her five favourites
Five reasons to visit Chelsea Flower Show
There a dozens of reasons to go to RHS Chelsea Flower Show, here are just five; plus Jean’s top tips to make the most of your day.
Five great garden peonies
Whether you are a cut flower fan, or just love the big blousy blooms of peonies, they are fabulous garden plants.
Five new plants at RHS Chelsea 2018
For the nurseries and plant specialists RHS Chelsea is a launch pad for new varieties and plants new to cultivation. Twenty of these plants have been shortlisted for the RHS Chelsea Plant of the Year and one will be picked as overall winner by the judges. This year there is a wonderful variety of fresh […]
Five Shopping Indulgences at RHS Chelsea 2018
If you love shopping and have a stash of cash to spend and you love gardens and gardening, then head on out to RHS Chelsea 2018 where you can create your own trolley-dash around the showground. Exhibitors are cherry picked from within the garden industry to display their wares at the show and if you’ve […]
Five ideas to take home from RHS Chelsea 2018
Ideas are great, especially when you can adapt them to fit your budget, situation and dreams. At this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show there are ideas aplenty wherever you look. Here are five you could take home and recreate in your own way in your garden. Shading We don’t often have a long hot summer […]
Five Chelsea 2018 Show Gardens
As the dawn lifts on this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Main Avenue is liberally seasoned with glorious show gardens to inspire and enthrall the crowds. Once again the garden designers have worked their magic with the plant nurseries and growers and landscapers to create gardens fit for the greatest show on earth. The sun […]
Garden Designer breaking records at RHS Chelsea
RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden designer Sarah Eberle has designed a record four gardens at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018
Popular plants banned from RHS Chelsea
Chelsea Flower Show could look very different in 2018 after organisers of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) show banned nine popular plants
New fruit and veg at Chelsea 2017
Fancy growing something new and different? Jean Vernon picks five new fruit and veg for your garden from RHS Chelsea Flower Sow 2017.
Ideas to take home from Chelsea 2017
One of the reasons to visit RHS Chelsea and indeed other flower shows is to get ideas for your own garden. Here are a few we spotted this year.
Shopping at RHS Chelsea 2017
Many people go to RHS Chelsea Flower Show to window shop and WOW is there a lot on offer. Here are five trade stand that caught Jean Vernon’s eye.
Artisan Gardens at RHS Chelsea 2017
The Artisan gardens at RHS Chelsea are just as fabulous as the larger show gardens and often more relevant to the amateur gardener.
Fresh Gardens at RHS Chelsea 2017
Don’t miss the fresh and thought provoking gardens at this year’s RHS Chelsea.
Five great show gardens at Chelsea 2017
There’s a fabulous mix of gardens at the year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Jean Vernon picks five favourites.
The Chelsea Fringe
Whether you are going to Chelsea Flower Show or not, there’s plenty going on around the area and beyond for the duration of the show.
A blooming star
A new rose named after Dame Judi Dench will launch at Chelsea Flower Show in May, reports Matt Appleby
Chelsea Flower Show goes urban
The RHS Greening Grey Britain garden at the 2017 Chelsea Flower Show features a few slightly radical ideas as part of the vision of the future.
Titchmarsh lays down challenge to Cameron
It’s time to make a stance on the natural world, Alan Titchmarsh tells David Cameron at a ‘Greening Grey Britain’ summit at RHS Chelsea.
A day out at Chelsea Flower Show
Geoff Stonebanks has a day out at the 2016 Chelsea Flower Show. Here are his highlights.
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