Hello and welcome to On the Ledge podcast. I'm your host, Jane Perrone, and this is episode 266. In this week's show,

I am going back to basics telling you about the Chelsea Flower Show, and I answer a question

about three plant killers. And in Meet the Listener,

we hear from Angela. I've been going to the Chelsea Flower Show. Gosh, I think the first year I went

must have been 2009. So that's gosh, how many years? That is 14 years, I guess.

I remember going heavily pregnant with my son when I was literally about to give birth.

Fortunately did not give birth in the showground. But safe to say, I've been going to the Chelsea Flower Show a long time.

But it occurred to me that a lot of the time when I'm talking about the Chelsea Flower Show on this podcast, I haven't really done a very

good job in the past of explaining much about what this show is and what it's all about, because I'm

sure many of you only have a peripheral

understanding of what the Chelsea Flower Show is. So in this episode, I want to give you a bit

of a potted guide, excuse the pun, to the Chelsea Flower Show, tell you a little bit about my

thoughts about this year's show, and also reflect on

where house plants currently sit and where they should be in the future when it comes to

the world's best-known flower show. First up, a bit of history about the show. The Chelsea

flower show happens in the very she-she neighbourhood of Chelsea in London. It's on

the site of the Chelsea Hospital, more formally known as the Royal Hospital Chelsea, the home of

the Chelsea pensioners who are veterans at the British Army, who are recognisable for their

bright red coats that they wear.

And every year it's held in the same place, it's been going for over 100 years and is the

best known flower show in the world and the flagship of the RHS shows.

It's kind of a unique as a flower show in a way because unlike other

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