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Viewing RHS Chelsea Flower Show

The Wick Culture - Anne, Princess Royal visits the Great Pavilion during a private view of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021, Monday September 20, 2021. . The show is being held, for the first time ever during autumn, in the wake of the COVID pandemic. Limited tickets are available for this one-off RHS show, which opens to the public Tuesday...Photograph by Suzanne Plunkett/RHS

Above Anne, Princess Royal visits the Great Pavilion during a private view of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021, Monday September 20, 2021. . The show is being held, for the first time ever during autumn, in the wake of the COVID pandemic. Limited tickets are available for this one-off RHS show, which opens to the public Tuesday…Photograph by Suzanne Plunkett/RHS

The Wick Culture - Designers Sarah Mead and Tom Massey pose with their gold award for The Yeo Valley Organic Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021, Tuesday September 21, 2021. The show is being held, for the first time ever during autumn, in the wake of the COVID pandemic. Limited tickets are available for this one-off RHS show, which opens to the public Tuesday..RHS / Luke MacGregor

Above Designers Sarah Mead and Tom Massey pose with their gold award for The Yeo Valley Organic Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021, Tuesday September 21, 2021. The show is being held, for the first time ever during autumn, in the wake of the COVID pandemic. Limited tickets are available for this one-off RHS show, which opens to the public Tuesday..RHS / Luke MacGregor

The Wick Culture - Viewing RHS Chelsea Flower Show

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RHS Chelsea Flower Show
21—26 September
Royal Hospital Chelsea in London
https://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhs-chelsea-flower-show

Listen up, green-fingered friends: after cancellation and postponement, the Chelsea Flower Show is back in town, and with it exciting satellite events including Chelsea in Bloom (20—25 Sept) and Belgravia in Bloom (20—26 Sept). Coinciding with the Chelsea Flower Show, these smaller floral festivals transform the city’s streets, restaurants and hotels into outdoor galleries brimming with blooming installations and displays that will make you stop, stare and snap — and then post straight to Insta, of course.

It’s the first time ever the Chelsea Flower Show has been held in autumn, so the line-up is a little different this year. Taking centre stage are late-season flowers including asters and dahlias, foliage, shrubs, topiary and ornamental grasses. You’ll also see bolder tones, edibles, seedheads and seasonal vegetables including pumpkins and squashes.

New categories this year include Sanctuary Gardens, which reflects the importance of gardening, nature and the outdoors on mental health and wellbeing; and Balcony Gardens, which pays homage to small space gardening in towns and cities. Other notable highlights include the Florence Nightingale Show Garden, the first ever NHS tribute garden and the first fully organic garden. Then, of course, there’s the star of the show: the Great Pavilion.

This week-long celebration of all things floral is sure to put a spring in your step and a smile on your face. Swing by Chelsea this weekend to soak it all up.