It's Chelsea, Baby!

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023 is finally upon us! And this week, we’ve brought you an episode recorded amongst the hustle and bustle of designer gardens, best in class floral displays, traders, talks and exhibitions, and more. We’ll catch up with a few of the big designers – including Tom Massey, Cleve West, Charlotte Harris & Hugo Bugg – explore the RHS Chelsea Plant of the Year Competition, and get a behind-the-scenes look at what goes on at the show. Links: The RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023 The Royal Entomological Society Garden The Centrepoint Garden Horatio’s Garden Project Giving Back

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:06.4	Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance to delight your senses.
0:13.2	Inspire your gardening adventures and entertain your own little stars.
0:17.4	Race you, let's go.
0:19.5	Catch Springs finest scenes while you can at an RHS garden near you. Let's go. Catch Springs, finest scenes while you can,
0:22.1	at an RHS garden near you.
0:24.0	Book tickets online for discounts,
0:26.0	plus under fives go free
0:27.1	and under 16s of five pounds.
0:34.1	Listen, what excites me about Chelsea
0:35.7	is literally coming through those great garlanded gates,
0:38.3	just even to step in. It doesn't matter whether it's bright, hot sun, teeming rain, or today
0:43.3	just quiet and still and grey. Perfect, thrilling, uplifting, exciting.
0:51.3	It's an exciting day.
0:54.7	We're here amongst the hustle and bustle of designer gardens,
0:57.5	best in class, floral displays, traders, talks and exhibitions
1:00.8	for a celebration of gardening at its very finest.
1:04.4	Of course, I could only be talking about the RHS Chelsea Flower Show,
1:08.0	2023, sponsored by the Newton Somerset.
1:13.8	Everything about it shows human nature, how people have devised gardens,
1:18.1	but best of all, it shows nature.
1:19.8	It shows all the beauty and splendour of nature, and that is what I love.
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