A floral wonderland

The Chelsea Flower Show is pure gardening nirvana, and a must for all green-fingered enthusiasts.

I feel that there is a void in the gardening year unless I get to Chelsea Flower Show in May. If you have ever been to the show then you understand the energy that it gives you — like a shot of horticultural speed. Walking around the show in the grounds of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, you can’t hep but be infused with ideas and inspiration, making you itch to get home and stuck into your own garden but at the same time not wanting to leave the gardening nirvana that the show is.

Such a concentration of talent, skill, design, ideas, and of course, flowers. Flowers, flowers and then some more flowers, every shape, size and colour that you can imagine and some that you can’t. Imagine Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory and the awe and wonder that it evoked as a child and transfer that to your gardening self and then you begin to understand what Chelsea is about.