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National Garden Scheme | RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022

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The National Garden Scheme‘s stand at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show was so beautifully styled by Selina Lake! Her brief was to create a garden party table to promote the NGS Great British Garden Party campaign. I loved Selina’s floral arrangements featuring peonies, lupins, alliums and foxgloves!

Captured on the stand on Press Day are President of the National Garden Scheme Dame Mary Berry, Ambassadors Rachel de Thame and Jo Whiley, plus Trustee Arit Anderson. To find out more about the scheme, simply head over to the National Garden Scheme website.… Read more

Mary Jane Vaughan | RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022

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Mary Jane Vaughan took part in the Floral Gallery competition at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year. And this is her beautiful installation, which won a Silver Medal. It’s called ‘The Tranquillity of the Woodland’.

It was designed to highlight the beauty and fragility of our woodland. And it was made from natural materials including a patchwork of cork bark to make the trunk and branches. It also featured rambling roses, clematis, solomon’s seal and angelica from Mary Jane’s garden for the canopy.… Read more

Phillip Corps | Chelsea in Bloom 2022

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Many congratulations to florist Phillip Corps and his team! They’ve received a Highly Commended Chelsea in Bloom award for this stunning floral installation!

For Jo Malone London, they created “an abundance of purple flowers enveloping the store’s façade, with illustrated corgis hidden among the garden scene, offering the perfect photo opportunity to mark this moment in time.”

If you’d like to see my video featuring the installation together with over 35 other designs for this year’s Chelsea in Bloom in London, simply head over to my YouTube channel.… Read more

Lucy Vail Floristry | RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022 Lucy Vail Floristry Bullring Gate

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Lucy Vail from Lucy Vail Floristry is the mastermind behind the beautiful botanical adornment of the Bull Ring Gate at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year. The 6m tall archway is planted with over 3,500 British plants. It includes clematis, red valerian, foxgloves, alliums, bearded iris and many more varieties of meadowesque flowers.

The installation is sponsored by Annoushka Fine Jewellery. And it was created by Lucy and her team over three days of 21 hour shifts! The three wicker crowns, honouring The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, are modelled on the jeweller’s Crown Collection.… Read more

Veevers Carter | RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022 Natural Perspectives Veevers Carter

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Veevers Carter has created an incredible floral installation at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. It celebrates the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, alongside the key themes of the 2022 show of wildlife and nature.

Over the last few months, Ming and her team have been busy collecting and pressing over 3,000 flowers from previous events. These flowers have been delicately and ingeniously placed in layers to create a portrait of the Queen.

Called ‘Natural Perspectives’, the installation also features a canopy of fresh flowers including delphiniums and dried flowers, like statice.… Read more