Chelsea Flowers

The annual Chelsea Flower show is underway this week in London. The famed show, considered by most to be the creme de la creme of floral exhibition, gives awesome insight into the biggest trends for gardening and arranging.

So when I read this Trend from the show- I thought I should share:

“Chelsea goes green”

“The RHS Chelsea Flower Show has gone green. Not just in the sense of recycling and reusing, but also in planting schemes. While blue and purple flowers have dominated the Show Gardens the past few years, this year the Main Avenue is awash with shades of green.

Designers this year have made lush foliage a feature, with strong lines of hedges, tall palms and sculptured Buxus.

Tom Stuart-Smith’s Laurent-Perrier Garden is dominated by nine 30 year old hornbeams, under-planted with rodgersias, epimediums, hostas and astrantias. Next door to him is Andy Sturgeon’s Cancer Research UK Garden, again making a feature out of foliage with a woodland themed garden with tree ferns, beech trees, euphorbia and astelias.

Crowd favourite, Diarmuid Gavin, has created a green haven for The Oceanico Group with giant white metal and mesh daisies hovering over a mass planting of ferns, sculptured box, bamboos, grasses, rosemary and thyme.”

A real crowd pleaser this year is bound to be the colourful George Harrison inspired garden: From Life to Life, A Garden for George. A psychedelic mosaic path leads through the colourful herbaceous planting up to marbled terrace. Damon Hill is driving Ringo Starr in George Harrison’s mini to the garden on Monday for the ‘official’ opening. “

Gardening is a real passion of my mine and I vow one day I will experience this show in person, if you’re a fan as well- check out all of the trends showcased at this year’s show, and let me know which ones will be colorfully influencing your landscape this summer.