It's RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024!

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Welcome to RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024! We’re diving headfirst into all of the trends and highlights this hotly anticipated show has to offer; from the growers filling the Great Pavilion with their dazzling botanical displays, to the striking RHS Plant of the Year Prunus ‘Starlight’, and of course the legendary garden designers lining main avenue with some truly spectacular show gardens. This year is all about celebrating the young gardeners of tomorrow, so join us for a peak inside The RHS No Adults Allowed Garden designed by Harry Holding in collaboration with local schoolchildren, as well as Ula Maria’s Best Show Garden-winning Muscular Dystropy UK - Forest Bathing Garden showstopper, Tom Massey and Je Ahn’s Gold medal-winning WaterAid Garden, Tom Stuart-Smith’s luscious Gold-winning The National Garden Scheme Garden, Ann-Marie Powell’s RHS Children Choice Award-winning garden, and much, much more… Presenters: Jenny Laville, Gareth Richards, Guy Barter Contributors: Tom Massey, Je Ahn, Ula Maria, James Armitage, Ann-Marie Powell Contact: [email protected] Other links: RHS Chelsea Flower Show Website SheGrowsVeg Urban Organic Pure Grenada

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0:00.0	It's one of the most anticipated weeks of the horticultural calendar.
0:05.0	The great and good of the gardening world who descended upon Royal Hospital Chelsea
0:09.0	for a world-renowned festival of cutting-edge garden design, gorgeous floral displays,
0:14.0	brilliant growers, exhibitors and so much knowledge.
0:18.0	Welcome to the one and only RHS Chelsea Flower Show
0:22.5	2024, sponsored by the Newt in Somerset.
0:28.1	I'm Jenny Laville, and in this special podcast episode,
0:31.2	we're going to be exploring some of the themes and delights
0:33.4	Chelsea has to offer, including the show gardens on Main Avenue
0:36.7	and speaking with the growers
0:37.8	in the Great Pavilion. But we'll also be looking out for their trends and tips we can translate
0:42.2	back into our own gardens. So I've been here all week behind the scenes, seeing the dramas and the
0:49.6	excitement build, the tensions as the designers nervously watch the judges go around. I've seen the
0:55.5	artists, floral artists in the great pavilion weaving their magic for these incredible
0:59.7	creations. It's been such a brilliant week already and we haven't even started and now the gates
1:04.4	are just about to open. Chelsea's only ever going to get better from here.
1:16.6	This year, Chelsea was all about the young gardeners of tomorrow. And for the first time ever, the RHS will be awarding the Children's Choice Award,
1:21.6	decided to buy some very green-finger judges.
1:24.6	In another Chelsea first, we also have the No Adults Allowed Garden, designed
1:29.1	by Harry Holding in collaboration with local school children. We'll be sliding into that in just a bit,
1:34.7	along with several of the other spectacular main avenue show gardens, designed by the likes of
1:39.5	Tom Massey and Jay Arne, Anne, Anne- Powell, Oula Maria and Tom Stewart-Smith.
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