Welcome to the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show 2015.
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| Entrance to the Flower Show |
I’m glad this Chelsea Pensioner elephant found it’s rightful home, I blogged about the Elephant Parade back in 2010.
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| Chelsea Pensioner Elephant at the entrance to Chelsea Hospital Grounds |
Chelsea Flower Show isn’t all flowers and plants there are stalls selling everything from treehouses to greeting cards. The Chelsea way, it would seem, is to offset your wares with planting, especially for the larger products.
Harrod Horticutural sign offset with lovely planting of purple Heuchera, Sweet Woodruff and white Umbellifers.
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| Chelsea planter |
Garden sculptures in front of The Pavillion.
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| Air head? |
How about a garden sculpture painstakingly made from shells? The main attractions were the larger than life Stag made from tiny cowries with conch and a towering Medusa fountain. Yes really.
These amazing sculpture are made from pieces of driftwood by
James Doran and towered over passers-by. I could see that dragon right at home on the Belle Mere’s pergola.
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| Driftwood horse by James Doran |
Cantering horses in the Bull Ring at Chelsea Hospital.
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| Amazing driftwood horse by James Doran at RHS Chelsea 2015 |
Another horse, this giant bronze Anadalusia Stallion sculpture is by Hamish Mackie and was commissioned by Berkley Homes to gallop through their new development at Goodman’s Fields.
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| Hamish Mackie |
Alice in Wonderland was a familiar theme this year.
Robert James featured an impressive collection of brass garden statues and water features.
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| Brass Caterpillar sculpture by Robert James RHS Chelsea 2015 |
A fox and a tiger.
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| RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2015 |
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| RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2015 |
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I rather liked this ceramic conker by
Penkridge Ceramics who produce all sorts of amazing plant forms in clay, from pears to cherries to acorns. Lovely!
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| Penkridge Ceramics Still Life Studies in Clay |
Yellow gardening gloves are the way forward.
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Yellow gardening gloves
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Every garden needs a champagne and glass holder.
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| RHS Chelsea 2015 |
Emma Bridgewater has made a delightful Chelsea Flower Show mug for the RHS which you can buy along with other merchandise
here.
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Emma Bridgewater Chelsea Flower Show Mug 2015
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Many men wear lightly creased linen jackets.
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| RHS Chelsea 2015 |
Or paisley trousers...
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| RHS Chelsea 2015 |
A rotating treehouse...
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| RHS Chelsea 2015 |
A Pimms stall a little too early in the day for Pimms o’clock.
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| RHS Chelsea 2015 |
A novel way to keep things cool on a Summer’s day?
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| RHS Chelsea 2015 |
There were lots of stalls for eating and drinking and even some full blown restaurants set up for the occasion including the The Laurent Perrier Orangery.
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| RHS Chelsea 2015 |
Chelsea empties.
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| RHS Chelsea 2015 |
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| RHS Chelsea 2015 |
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| RHS Chelsea 2015 |
An Avenue lined with stalls.
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| RHS Chelsea 2015 |
And so to the flowers... There were lots of lupins and iris in the planting, along with cultivated varieties of lacy white cow parlsey. Purple and white was a popular colour-way, one of my faves at the moment.
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| Lupins and Iris |
Purple and white again in the many named: Aquilegia, Columbine or Granny’s Bonnets.
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Aquilegia
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And foliage can be just as eye-catching.
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| RHS Chelsea 2015 |
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| RHS Chelsea 2015 |
A carpet of wild campion.
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| RHS Chelsea 2015 |
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| RHS Chelsea 2015 |
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| The BBC stand |
These pictures were all taken outside at Chelsea, a Pavillion post will follow. I’m off swimming with Erbie now as it’s the bank holiday.
NB: All photos by ©SaraHodgkinson. All opinions are my own. No products mentioned in this post are sponsored.
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