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Chelsea : The Greatest Flower Show on Earth
21 days, over 590 tons of soil, 157,000 visitors; all these make up the Chelsea Flower Show, the greatest flower show on earth. Each colourful page shows the painstaking planning needed to stage this unique and spectacular celebration of plants, plus the latest horticultural and design trends provide inspirational ideas for your own garden. This book includes behind-the-scenes views, with a special feature on the 2005 prize-winning gardens. Featuring photographs from past to present, revel in the glory of the most prestigious flower show in the world.
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First published March 3, 2005
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November 10, 2024
A very good history and guide of this annual gardening event. From the early shows, the history of the first traders, to the changes to the garden displays and descriptions of what the traders experience to get to the show.
April 13, 2017
One of my all-time favourite books is Chelsea Gold, so inspiring, I've looked at it over and over again (I live in Vancouver, BC, and have never made it to England for the gardens show in person). I was hoping this volume would help slate my thirst for all things Chelsea, but it was a rather dreary, uninspiring, repetitive tome about the process of putting Chelsea together ... so rather than the gardens, we would get a discussion of the drains, so to speak. Plumbing and electrical woes, the construction of the marquee, catering, etc., and while a good backstager can be fascinating, this was not that. Rather dull, and disappointing.
(Note: 5 stars = rare and amazing, 4 = quite good book, 3 = a decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. There are a lot of 4s and 3s in the world!)
(Note: 5 stars = rare and amazing, 4 = quite good book, 3 = a decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. There are a lot of 4s and 3s in the world!)
January 5, 2008
Wonderful insight into "the greatest flower show on earth". And Leslie Geddes-Brown wrote it in such a lighthearted way, I can't wait for the next train ride to the flower show.
It traces the past of Chelsea flower show, its beginnings, up to the present, and gives great promises of the future.
It traces the past of Chelsea flower show, its beginnings, up to the present, and gives great promises of the future.
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