Property News · September 5, 2021

Chelsea Flower Show is late this year…


But that means it may be better than everI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Chelsea Flower Show is my favourite time of year. To someone who loves both plants and design, it’s like Christmas and my birthday rolled into one. Except in 2021, for the first time in more than a century, the Chelsea “time of year” will be at the close of summer rather than the beginning. But here’s why that is likely to make it the best yet.Normally coinciding with the first truly warm days of the season at the end of May, due to lockdown restrictions the show has been moved to the end of this month – it runs from 21 to 26 September – after being forced to cancel last year for the first time since the Second World War. Sure, this dramatic seasonal shift will mean challenges. For starters, all the classic “Chelsea” plants will have to be abandoned and that fresh, spring vigour many species have at the peak of the growing season will be a distant memory. But to my mind that is a good – perhaps even desperately needed – thing. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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