Chelsea flower show 2011 – in pictures

Visitors blend in whilst viewing a floral display Photograph: Ian Nicholson/PA

A garden designed by South Korea's Jihae Hwang entitled Hae-woo-so (Emptying one's mind), which features a toilet as its centre piece Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA

A visitor walks through the gold award-winning Leeds City Council HESCO Garden Photograph: Ian Nicholson/PA

Dame Helen Mirren is presented with a nepenthes cultivar (a new variety of the carnivorous pitcher plant), Nepenthes 'Helen' – named in her honour. Doesn't she look pleased? Photograph: Sang Tan/AP

A living statue poses as a display Photograph: Emma Peios/WireImage

The Art of Yorkshire garden Photograph: Sang Tan/AP

A guardian lion made from flowers pictured in the Thailand Garden Photograph: Ian Nicholson/PA

An exhibitor poses with clematis and delphiniums Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters

Can you guess what the theme is here? Created by the Plant Nursery Guide Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/Rex Features

A 'William and Catherine' Rose on the David Austen stand Photograph: Chris Jackson/Getty Images

Diarmuid Gavin's sky garden Photograph: Emma Peios/WireImage

A businessman poses in his floral hat Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters

The Times's Eureka Garden Photograph: Chris Jackson/Getty Images