Highlights from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023 in pictures
From a wedding and a meal for the Chelsea Pensioners on a Show Garden, RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023 hasn’t disappointed so far when it comes to spectacle.
A brand new accolade, the Elizabeth Medal of Honour was presented to three recipients on press day by HRH The King. The Princess of Wales visited the show ground too.
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Highlights of Chelsea Flower Show 2023 in pictures
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Manoj Malde, who designed the RHS and Eastern Eye Garden of Unity, married his partner Clive Gillmor, on the garden. The unjudged RHS Feature Garden celebrates the richness in the unity of cultures, traditions and backgrounds as a thriving community space, where gardening brings people together.
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Chelsea pensioners eating at meal in the Savills Garden designed by Mark Gregory.
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Chelsea Pensioners at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023.
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Lucy Vail Floristry: Another Blooming Heatwave. Installation at the entrance to RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
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The Princess of Wales Kate Middleton visits RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023. She is pictured with school children for the first RHS Chelsea Children’s Picnic
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Piet Oudolf and Matthew Pottage in conversation. Piet Oudolf is one of the first recipients of the Elizabeth Medal of Honour presented at Press Day.
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Agapanthus ‘Black Jack’ announced as RHS Plant of the Year winner 2023.
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Geb & Green: Steam. Clean. Plant. Repeat at the House Plant Studios.
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The Monument. Heroines of Horticulture in the Great Pavillion.
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Trinidad & Tobago: This Our Native Land in the Great Pavilion.
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The Princess of Wales Kate Middleton visits RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023. She is pictured on The Royal Entomological Society Garden with designer Tom Massey.
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Wedding of Manoj Malde on the RHS and Eastern Eye Garden of Unity that he designed.
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ILunaria Somerset: Wake the Senses floral Installation.
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Tropical Plants UK: Keep Calm Grow British at the House Plant Studios.
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Carly Rogers: Dreamscape. Floral Art.
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Rosa Dannahue was in RHS Plant of the Year Competition 2023 and was launched at the show.