Thankfully, I wasn't walking into this experience blind; my mum has religiously attended for the past decade and so she had a pretty good idea about how best to manoeuvre through the show and soak up some of the 'best bits'! This began with advising me to park us over at Battersea Park's car park and arrange to catch one of the coaches travelling between the park and the show - such a time saver and easily arranged. So, one coach journey and a quick queue later, and I found myself immersed in both flowers and people... can you think of a more extreme word for busy? That said, the crowds somehow add to the show's charm by showing just how rightly popular it is!
Before anything, a snack break was on the cards. And yes, I realise how ridiculous that sounds considering we'd only just arrived! Seriously though, I can't be the only one who likes to acclimatise by sitting down for a muffin? Anyway, after chatting away to a fascinating Scottish couple, we began exploring some of which I'd seen tweets about earlier this week. This included some of the most popular of artisan gardens including The Viking Cruises Mekong Garden and a garden aimed at the classic car enthusiasts, The Garage Garden designed by Kazuyuki Ishihara. The latter (shown further above) featured a two-tier structure designed to complement the vehicle and well, mission accomplished!
Something I discovered that I surprisingly hadn't been aware of beforehand, was the fantastic Orchid Tunnel by Love Orchids UK. It was impossible to walk through the pretty in pink tunnel without feeling the urge to whip out your camera and capture the beauty - truly, it was breathtakingly beautiful!
Fast forward to the early hours of the evening and we came across an incredible display of floral headdresses, each designed and arranged by floristry college students on a Brazilian theme in honour of the Rio Olympics. Immediately, my eye was drawn to the flamboyant mohican design by Emily Smith of Bath College, along with the stunning headdress shown directly above. Featuring fluffy pampas grass, this design by April Bennett of Bluebells of Henley was never without a small crowd. Seriously, have you ever seen anything like it in your life? Amazing!
With love,
Gabrielle x
Gabrielle, what a wonderful post! I can imagine it was such a beautiful one to attend. I have never been myself but would love to go next year as you know how much I like the flowers! I love your photos. Have a great evening. Gemma x
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Stunning and breathtaking! I can see why it's so popular! Your photos are spectacular and captured all the rich colors. I particularly loved the impressive headdresses. Amazing post!
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So beautiful!!!
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Omigosh so much floral gorgeousness! It must've been just sights if beauty any which way you turned. Those headresses in particular look stupendous! Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us Gabrielle!
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Oh wow. Though the crowd looks alarming, everything else looks incredible! Your (wonderful) photos make this look like such a fascinating experience!
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This is such a beautiful place! I love to botanical exhibition style, but prefer not too many people lol I went to the botanical garden in Manchester once, and it looked horrible..Google lied to me!
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WOW!!! These pictures are amazing!!! The red carpet one is my favorite!!! I hope there's something like this in my place. Thanks for sharing this :)
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So beautiful ! I just love flowers :-)
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Aw, that place is more than adorable! Looks so beautiful and romantic! Thanks for the walk Gabrielle and for the beautiful photos! Have an amazing day and weekend!
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Lovely post hun! I like this so much.
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Love those colours! TGIF, my dear! xoxo
ReplyDeleteThat looks amazing! I think I wouldn't mind the people as long as there are still more flowers than human beings around.
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These flowers are breathtaking! Hope your weekend is filled with love and happiness!
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never been to Chelsea and been dying to visit there sometime, the photos and the flower show looked amazing!
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This was enchanting to follow along, and lucky for you that your mum had been, I'd wonder where to start first. I love flowers so I want to go there. I've only been to a tulip garden show, but this seems much more fascinating. <3 Thanks for sharing. Have a lovely weekend Gabrielle. x/Madison
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I would absolutely love to go to the Chelsea Flower show and it looks like you had an amazing day. The poppies look absolutely gorgeous and so striking! Maybe I'll have to visit next time :) x
ReplyDeleteOh my, I want to go here. Everything is so lovely :D Nice post Gabrielle! -Fiona
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed this post so much! :) I love flowers, and that orchid tunnel is absolutely stunning... as is everything else.. But busy is a bit of an understatement for the amount of people that can be seen on the photo :D I am going to a flower festiva with my mom soon, so I can't wait to walk among the flowers myself :) xx
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WOW! I am SO jealous! That looks incredible, and you live in such and incredible country to just pop over to mansions and old historical sites. The best part for me were those headdresses. That was insane, can I wear it? But where would I wear it. Doesn't matter. I want.
ReplyDeleteI've been seeing the photos of this flower show and I adore how beautiful everything looks. As long as I can enjoy the beauties of the flowers, I don't mind having many people around as long as they don't push me so they can get better view :) x
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This is unbelievably beautiful! It really looks like you were transported into another world!
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Such beautiful photos! It looks like heaven ☺
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You lucky thing, I've always wanted to visit the Chelsea Flower Show
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It's great comparing our experiences, I see we were both drawn to the headdresses but I never saw the wicker boxing gloves!
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WOW!!! I love flowers and these pics are wonders for me! *-*
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And that flower red carpet!!! O.o
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The flowers look amazing! You are so lucky to have seen this for real. Hope that I can go as well one day.
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The Chelsea Flower Show is truly a must see for anyone who can. I'm not surprised to see it is so popular, because from what I see in your post, it is simply spectacular. It would really be a shame to miss a flower show that has so much to offer.
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Wonderful show, thank you for showing us around...I was particularly impressed by that red carpet made of flowers....how gorgeous is that!!!
I'm so glad you shared these photos, they are so stunning! It sounds like it is definitely worth visiting; and perfect that you had someone who knew the best parts. I love it!
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Oh wow, that is a stunning flower show, Gabrielle! And good for you that your mum is familiar with the show, can you imagine trying to manoeuvre in that crowd? Crazy!
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my jaw is still dropping! WOW! just... wow. that looks absolutely amazing! what a great opportunity for you :) gorgeous pictures, as per usual xX
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Those poppies! I died! How gorgeous is that?! It's really such a stunning way to end the show. I hope I get to see something like that one day.
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What a beautiful event. I love flowers! This must have been awesome. :)
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This looks like a flower fairyland! I would have loved to attend the show, it seems so out of the world. And such creativity! I love your pictures. They made an amazing story.
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So amazing! The photos are stunning! I would love to go here one year, I love flowers so much!
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I'm dying to visit the Chelsea Flower Show but the crowds have always put me off, it looks absolutely gorgeous though <3 so many pretty colours!
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I've always wanted to go to the Chelsea flower show with my mum, she and I would love to go together! It looks absolutely incredible :)
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This looks so lovely! And that poppy red carpet is amazzzzzing!! Great photos. :)
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Hi Gabrielle, I can imagine it was hard to resist not to capture every single beautiful flower with your camera! its pretty amazing how much crowd came to see the exhibition, but as you said, it was rightly so from what I can see of your pictures. I love flowers and love therefore any thing related with them, my dream is to go visit the flower tunnels in Japan ;) although that orchid tunnel is stunningly beautiful as well!
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Che bello!! Eri immersa tra i fiori...
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it must have been fun, all those flower arrangements around...loved the patio, I want one in my garden...
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These pictures are actually gorgeous Gabrielle! I have wanted to visit the Chelsea Flower Show for ages :)
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This is so pretty! Thank you for sharing this :)
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Amazing! I am stunned by how gorgeous this is! You really captured the beauty of this event so well Gabrielle, this was quite a refreshing read for me on a Sunday afternoon.
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This place is so amazing and pretty !
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This is so stunning, what beautiful flowers!
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Oh my, this is such a beautiful place. It is just breathtaking and your photos are spectacular and just captured all the rich colors. Just amazing and sounds like a very popular event. x
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Beautifully documented Gabrielle! Your photographs are stunning. I haven't visited The Chelsea Flower show before, however I would like to visit next year especially after reading this post and seeing so many beautiful photographs on Twitter during the show.
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Photos are stunning !
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Absolutely stunning, sweetie!
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She's a superb gardener! Sent me hundreds of photos as well - everything looks soooo beautiful!
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I wouldn't know where to look first! Everything looks amazing! I'm in love with that orchid tunnel though, I want to go buy some more flowers now haha! :) xx
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