{"id":13928,"date":"2016-05-22T06:05:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T23:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/changing-chelsea-modernising-the-chelsea-flower-show\/"},"modified":"2016-05-22T06:15:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T23:15:33","slug":"changing-chelsea-modernising-the-chelsea-flower-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/changing-chelsea-modernising-the-chelsea-flower-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Chelsea: modernising the Chelsea flower show"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe 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\u2019s show brilliant female designers will be out in forceLast year\u2019s 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. \u201cWe found that the number of female designers was actually decreasing,\u201d says Matthew Appleby, deputy editor of Horticulture Week, \u201cbut 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\u2019t putting female designers on their shortlist.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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