Property News · May 22, 2016

Changing Chelsea: modernising the Chelsea flower show


The Chelsea flower show is one of the most traditional events in the English calendar. And the prizes have often been dominated by men. But at next week’s show brilliant female designers will be out in forceLast year’s Chelsea flower show represented the high point of a certain kind of traditional English horticultural charm. Returning to Chelsea for the first time in a decade, Dan Pearson won best in show for the Chatsworth Garden, inspired by the stately home and, in fact, including huge stones brought down from the garden on enormous lorries. A trout stream ran through moss and willow.It was a joy, but Chelsea as a whole met with criticism that it was growing tired, with a lack of fresh voices in design. “We found that the number of female designers was actually decreasing,” says Matthew Appleby, deputy editor of Horticulture Week, “but the membership of the Guild of Landscape Designers is more than half women. The RHS [Royal Horticultural Society] wondered why it was happening, and it was because they weren’t putting female designers on their shortlist.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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