Chelsea Flower Show Milana Kovalenko School №5 Form 5 ‘V'
Every year in late May, the historic district of London called Chelsea for five days turns into a huge flowerbed where you can find almost any flower - from the ordinary wild flower to the most extraordinary exotic and unusual one.
The Chelsea Flower Show or the Great Spring Show, is held since 1922. And all the time it is protected and patronized by the British royal family.
Here you can learn about new types of flowers, a variety of colors and ideas for the garden, trends of landscape design development. You can also buy high-quality planting material there. This festival sets the direction for the floral fashion to the next flower season.
Flower Festival brought together more than hundreds of different flower shows from all over the the world. And its history dates back almost 150 years ago . At first, it was named as the Great Spring Show Royal Horticultural Society and was placed in Kensington Gardens .
This is the most prestigious and popular show in the world in the field of landscape design. It is part of the so-called " secular spring season.“
The five-day show is taken place in the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) every year in May. The first exhibition was organized by the British Royal Horticultural Society in 1862 on the territory of the garden society in Kensington and was called "Spring show of the Royal Horticultural Society .“ After a few years the show has been given a prestigious permanent address at the Royal Hospital in London's Chelsea
Gardens, presented at the legendary exhibition for all the years of its existence , are full of a variety of styles and ideas of designers and florists.
designers’ gardens, front gardens , fragments of landscape design, ornamental plants , floral fruit composition. During the Chelsea Flower Show there is a contest among professionals. The jury evaluates:
In the exhibition there are such sections as: garden sculpture, furniture, tools and accessories. And everyone can buy everything he wants there.
The main avenue of the exhibition called Show gardens is the exhibition gardens, the most glamorous and inspirational exhibits of the event.
Other exhibits are grouped into four areas: - Chic gardens - graceful, elegant and stylish ones ; Courtyard Gardens - Gardens in the courtyards for rural and suburban estates ; City gardens - urban gardens , an oasis of relaxation for the inhabitants of large cities ; Roof gardens - gardens on roofs (first this nomination appeared at the festival in 2007) .
In England, they say that the summer will not come until the traditional festival of flowers stars. The last days of May are a kind of prevailing English ritual calling long-awaited summer , and thousands of participants and visitors take an active part in it , bowing to the exuberance of spring flowers and inexhaustible imagination of gardeners .