The Queen graces Chelsea Flower Show 2022 and other highlights
Hurrah! Queen Elizabeth II made it to this year's Chelsea Flower Show. Looking vibrant in bright pink, The Queen was ferried around aboard a buggy. She was joined by her son Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, Countess of Wessex, her granddaughter Princess Beatrice and Beatrice's husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, The Duchess of Gloucester, The Duke of Kent, Princess Alexandra, and Princess Michael of Kent.
This year's flower show features "wild plants and naturalistic spaces will take centre stage," according to Country & Town House. Garden designers used plants that "promote biodiversity, including wildlife-friendly hawthorn, hazel and woodland trees such as crab apple and sweet chestnut."
To commemorate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, several decorative floral and plant displays, including a sculptural portrait of Her Majesty made from flowers were among the highlights of this year's flower show.
Other garden highlights include Andy Sturgeon’s Mind Garden, designed to highlight the importance of connecting with each other through nature, featuring calm seating areas with a drifted plants backdrop. Elsewhere, the Meta Garden explores the connection between plants and fungi in our woodland ecosystems, while The New Blue Peter Garden aims to stress the importance of soil in mitigating the effects of climate change.
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, formally known as the Great Spring Show, is a garden show held for five days in May by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in Chelsea, London. Held at Chelsea since 1912, the show is attended by members of the British Royal Family. It was first called the RHS Great Spring Show in 1862 after launching in a large tent at the now-vanished RHS garden in Kensington. Between 1888 and 1911 it was held in the Temple Gardens on the banks of the Thames before moving to its current site at Royal Hospital Chelsea in 1913.
🌸 The Queen, Patron of @The_RHS, visits the annual Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea.
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) May 23, 2022
Established in 1913, the show is one of the world’s greatest showcases for horticultural excellence, attracting visitors and exhibitors from across the globe.#RHSChelsea pic.twitter.com/XjHoYUz9qo
At #RHSChelsea, The Earl and Countess of Wessex are shown the John Ystumllyn rose.
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) May 23, 2022
Earlier today, one of these roses was planted at Buckingham Palace in honour of the 18th century horticulturist, who was one of Britain’s first black gardeners. pic.twitter.com/O3slybvzEC
The golf buggy by Danish firm Daria has a top speed of 43mph, a 50 mile range on its lithium battery, plus brown leather seats, a 10.1inch screen with weather updates and 'weather enclosures' to be driven all year round. Costs around £62k. pic.twitter.com/XMxmXXZV8u
— Matt Wilkinson (@MattSunRoyal) May 23, 2022
The Queen, in pink, is touring the Chelsea Flower Show in a motorised buggy. Her Majesty is visiting the show ahead of its official opening tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/kc3feFwLhI
— Platinum Jubilee News (@Platinum2022) May 23, 2022
The Queen at the Chelsea Flower Show which this year pays tribute to her in her #PlatinumJubilee year pic.twitter.com/EeDfxfgnSE
— Platinum Jubilee News (@Platinum2022) May 23, 2022
And this is what I was hinting at…. First time we have seen the Queen undertaking an engagement by buggy. Perfect understandable - Chelsea isn’t terribly easy to walk about. I joked to someone earlier that I hoped it would have a silver corgi on the front like a Rolls Royce! https://t.co/NyctuUtq69
— Rebecca English (@RE_DailyMail) May 23, 2022
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