RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

It’s that time of year again!

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show Press Day.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

A gift for every sense.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

BBC Radio 2 had a series of gardens based on the senses.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

The Jeremy Vine Texture Garden:

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

Soft, elegant planting juxtaposed against striking structural materials make it a feast for the eyes and the fingertips.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

With fragrance designer Jo Malone on board, visitors to Jo Whiley’s Scent garden can walk down scent-memory lane. The smell of fresh rain fall, just-turned earth and crisp cut flowers harmonise before our noses!

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

The Taste Garden shows how succulent a successful vegetable garden can be…

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

The Zoe Ball Listening Garden aims to recreate the feeling of sound reverberating at a concert. It’s a very creative concept and one that my photographs struggle to convey. The joy of this garden was all in the viewing: a soft bvvvvb bvvvvb bvvvvb emanated from the 23 square foot space.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

The Morgan Stanley garden was glorious:

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

It is inspired by and explores fractal geometry and patterns found in nature, music, art and communities.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Did you know Covent Garden used to be an orchard?

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

For the ‘500 Years of Covent Garden’ retired apple trees were employed to reference its history.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

While I was there we saw a group of young, aspiring actresses re-enacting the roles of flower sellers!

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

One of the most eye-catching gardens is the Silk Road garden.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

The garden is designed around the Silk Road, the historic East-West route and its cultural, social and trade links, that are explored in the central plaza.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

I was so lucky with the weather today, it was absolutely boiling!

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

I followed my nose while cooling down inside the Great Pavilion.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

Alice Dunn

^ Me, busy photographing roses!

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

This is the City Garden.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

It explores the exciting relationship between building and garden…

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

And the space in between.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

It is an imagined urban apartment block providing the occupants with beautiful and functional gardens set across three levels.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

The M&G Garden is a dramatic garden that will make you look twice.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

It explores the different ecologies and native plants of Malta’s arid climate, set in the extreme man-made space of a Maltese stone quarry.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

The Artisan gardens were something truly spectacular to behold.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

In what felt like a world away from the busy thoroughfare of Main Avenue at Chelsea, tucked away in the shadows…

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017

Absolutely spectacular!

I’ll put Part Two of my wonderful day at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show up on the blog tomorrow!

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