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Children’s Picnic at Chelsea Flower Show aims to connect children with nature

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The Royal Horticulturist Society (RHS) have announced plans for the first Children’s Picnic to take place at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2023. iStock The picnic is one of the first initiatives of the new director general, Clare Matterson CBE, who hopes that the event will encourage more children to take an interest in gardening: “I want this to be…
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Peas please me

Peas please me

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KG contributor Steve Neal extols the virtues of his favourite Chelsea garden and being a keen veg grower it had to contain some edibles! The garden that caught my eye at Chelsea this year was The Seedlip Garden, designed by Catherine MacDonald. What is unusual is that all the plants in the garden are members of the pea family. When…
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Good enough to eat!

Good enough to eat!

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As the Chelsea Flower Show gets under way, we reveal one of the top trends from members of the Society of Garden Designers – edible gardens. Evident in gardens large and small this year is a trend for incorporating edibles into floral displays. Tom Massey uses herbs, cleverly displayed on a planted-up building block wall, and exotic fruit trees –…
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Creating a force for good

Creating a force for good

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Horticulture college and military veterans join forces to create an award-winning Chelsea Flower Show exhibit. Sparsholt College continues its RHS Chelsea Flower Show medal-winning run with news of a Gold medal and Best Discovery Exhibit at this year’s show. The college and its 2018 partner Help for Heroes’ The Force for Good garden was designed and created by horticulture students…
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Chelsea Plant of the Year contenders

Chelsea Plant of the Year contenders

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Burncoose Nurseries enters two plants for Plant of the Year at RHS Chelsea Flower Show RHS Chelsea Flower Show regular, Burncoose Nurseries, which is once again supported by Terra Firma, has two plants in the running for Plant of the Year at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The first plant, which is bred by Jos van Meuwen and Arjan…
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Teen art sensation to have a brush with RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Teen art sensation to have a brush with RHS Chelsea Flower Show

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‘Mini Monet’ Kieron is commissioned for limited-edition show paintings Fifteen-year-old art prodigy Kieron Williamson from Norfolk is one of the world’s most sought-after professional young artists with a global waiting list of art enthusiasts who eagerly look forward to his next masterpiece. Kieron’s first painting sold for a phenomenal ÂŁ14,000 when he was just six years old; he has featured…
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Burpee's delight in double RHS gold

Burpee’s delight in double RHS gold

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The East Yorkshire based European division of American seed company W. Atlee Burpee & Co., is celebrating after winning two gold medals  Burpee partnered with award-winning nurserymen, Chris Smith and Mike Milligan from Pennard Plants in Somerset and provided tomato, cucumber and pepper plants for the medal winning exhibits. The gold medal Chelsea exhibit featured a green roofed hobbit hut,…
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Veg at Chelsea Flower Show 2017

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By KG contributor, Steve Neal At the Chelsea Flower Show this year there was a small yet significant presence of vegetables among the blooms. But they punched well above their weight and visitors craned their necks to catch a glimpse of what was on offer. Just off the main drag it was Radio 2’s Chris Evans Taste Garden that pulled…
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Sparsholt College launches garden for RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016

Sparsholt College launches garden for RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016

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Sparsholt College has partnered with Plant Heritage to tell the story of The People’s Plants for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016 The garden will highlight the important work of the charity Plant Heritage, including their Plant Guardian Scheme, National Plant Collection® scheme and Threatened Plants Project and how people across the UK can become actively involved in conservation of…
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Edible Garden for Chelsea’s Great Pavilion

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See the totally edible garden being produced by the Miracle-Gro Company at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show.  According to Vicky Page, the company’s spokesperson, “We are packing the raised beds with an amazing variety of edible flowers, productive fruit trees and a host of different vegetables that will be displayed in tip-top condition.” The Miracle-Gro’wers Urban School Garden will be…
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Chelsea Fringe at Nine Elms on the South Bank

Chelsea Fringe at Nine Elms on the South Bank

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Nine Elms on the South Bank is drawing together a programme of local activities as part of #Chelsea Fringe. The international garden festival that’s now in its fourth year and celebrates everything from guerrilla gardeners to community projects and large-scale installations. The programme at Nine Elms draws inspiration from the area’s horticultural and industrial heritage, celebrates the area’s flourishing green…
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Pennard Plants and Roots and Shoots celebrate Kipling's 150th anniversary

Pennard Plants and Roots and Shoots celebrate Kipling’s 150th anniversary

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“This should really be the goodwill garden,” says Roots and Shoots Director Linda Philips of the Rudyard Kipling inspired garden the London charity is creating in the Grand Pavilion at Chelsea Flower Show with Pennard Plants. #Chelsea #Garden #Horticulture “It’s built on many thousands of pounds of goodwill and generosity and very little money, ÂŁ5,740 to be exact. Not your…
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