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Things you shouldn't miss at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2006
The Great Pavilion
The Great Pavilion, the jewel in the crown, is the favourite experience for most visitors at the Chelsea Flower Show. Here, under one roof, more than 100 displays feature thousands of plants at their very best and provide the finest examples of horticultural excellence in the world.
Chelsea veteran, Hillier Nurseries, will be making a return with a bigger display than ever before. Other leading exhibitors, who are set to showcase British plants at their very best, include David Austin Roses, Notcutts and Blooms. Borneo Exotics, from Sri Lanka, the Trinidad and Tobago Horticultural Society and the Barbados Horticultural Society are a just a selection of exhibitors from around the world who will help provide a taste of the exotic and an international gardening experience.
The Chelsea Flower Show is the plant breeders’ favourite place to unveil new plants and the Great Pavilion often provides the first glimpses of the newest horticultural gems.
Details of plants that will be unveiled at the show will be posted here in due course.
RHS Garden Rosemoor - first ever garden at Chelsea: Read the write-up in the May issue of The Garden
Show gardens
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show acts as a showcase for the world’s most talented garden designers, and show gardens at Chelsea are always special. Visitors will be treated to bigger show gardens than ever before. Twenty gardens have been selected and top designers Jinny Blom, Chris Beardshaw, Andy Sturgeon and Tom Stuart Smith will all be at the show.
Tourism New Zealand will make a return with the '100% Pure New Zealand Garden'. This exciting new design has been inspired by the west coast of Auckland and reflects the close relationship between the city and the wild natural coastline. ‘The Laurent Perrier Garden’ will be a romantic contemporary French themed garden and ‘The Jurassic Coast Garden’, designed by Nick Williams-Ellis, will aim to raise awareness of the dramatic Jurassic Coast - England’s first world heritage site. Other gardens that will add to the cosmopolitan feel of the show include the garden commissioned by Saga, which will celebrate the diversity of plants from around the world, and the ‘Gorilla Jungle Garden’, which is set in a West African forest environment.
Small gardens
The smaller gardens provide endless inspiration for visitors to take home. These gardens are split into three different categories - the stylish and bold chic gardens, courtyard gardens, which are for rural or semi-rural settings and city gardens, for urban spaces.
Horticultural sundries
Chelsea Flower Show offers visitors a wide range of horticultural sundries and many new gardening products make their debut at the show.
Details of new horticultural sundries to look out for will be posted here in due course.