Chelsea Flower Show 2019 - In pictures
Chelsea Flower Show 2019 - In pictures
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The Camfed Garden: Giving Girls in Africa A Space to Grow
Clarah Zinyama and Sinikiwe Makove from Camfed celebrate
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The charity is supported by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex
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The CAMFED garden, recreating a rural Zimbabwean classroom surrounded by crops such as beans and sweet potatoes in a landscape of red soil, was awarded a coveted gold medal in the "Space to Grow” category by judges from the Royal Horticultural Society.
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Singer/songwriter Joan Armatrading in the Space to Grow CAMFED Garden
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The M&G Garden by Brighton-based designer Andy Sturgeon scooped the top prize.
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Planting detail from M&G Investments Garden designed by Andy Sturgeon including yellow hardy orchids
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Designing at Chelsea can take its toll. Andy Sturgeon, designer of the dramatic M&G Investments Garden is just happy to be standing up, balancing on a pair of crutches he picked up from Argos after injuring his foot.
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The Morgan Stanley Garden
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The Resilience Garden
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Welcome to Yorkshire Garden
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Two Chelsea Pensioners pose with (left to right) Facebook gardening group admins Kevin Fortey, Sara Latimer, Rachel Hammond and Alex Thurley-Ratcliffe, in 'The Facebook Garden: Beyond The Screen'.
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Designer Joe Perkins
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The Montessori Centenary Children's Garden
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Viking Cruises: The Art of Viking Garden
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Designer Paul Hervey-Brookes doing some last minute watering in his Viking Cruises Garden.
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The Dubai Majlis Garden
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IKEA: Gardening will save the World Garden
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The Savills and David Harber Garden
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The Queen during her visit to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London
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The D-Day 75 Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London
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Anton du Beke and wife Hannah Summers during the press day for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London
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The Queen and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge during their visit to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London
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Finishing touches are applied to begonias and delphiniums during preparations for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London
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Mary Berry at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London.
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Finishing touches are applied to a display during preparations for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London
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Chrysanthemum Archie Harrison, named to celebrate the birth of the the Duke and Duchess of Sussex first child, on display at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London
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Joe Sugg and Dianne Buswell at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London
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Princess Beatrice of York with her friend Alice Naylor-Leyland as they look at a display during their visit to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London
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The Queen around the 'Back to Nature' by the designer, The Duchess of Cambridge during their visit to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London
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The Queen around the 'Back to Nature' by the designer, The Duchess of Cambridge during their visit to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge during their visit to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London
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Kate greets children at the Chelsea Flower Show
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The Duchess of Cambridge, is pictured with Adam White during a visit to her garden
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The Duchess of Cambridge joined celebrity guests at the event today
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Kate spoke to children in the treehouse of the garden she helped design
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Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is pictured with Andree Davies and Adam White during a visit to her garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
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The Duchess of Cambridge looks at a display during her visit
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Her garden is designed to help encourage young people to explore nature
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The Duchess of Cambridge, visits her garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
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The Duchess of Cambridge, and Sir Nicholas Bacon, Chairman of the Royal Horticultural Society
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Kate arrived looking casual in culottes and a white blouse
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Mel Giedroyc attends the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
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The Duchess of Cambridge, waves to admirers during her visit at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
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The Duchess admires a display at this year's show
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The show opens to the public tomorrow
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Mary Berry at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
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Dame Judi Dench attends the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
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The Duchess of Cambridge leaves after visiting her "Back to Nature" show garden at the RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) Chelsea Flower Show
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The Duchess of Cambridge greeted fans on her visit to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea
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The Duchess of Cambridge visits her garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis in the Adam White and Andree Davies co-designed garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London
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The Duchess of Cambridge with Prince Louis in the Adam White and Andree Davies co-designed 'Back to Nature' garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London
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Princess Charlotte on a family visit to The Duchess of Cambridge Back to Nature; Garden co-designed with Adam White and Andree Davies at of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis in the Adam White and Andree Davies co-designed garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London
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The Duke of Cambridge with Prince Louis in the Adam White and Andree Davies co-designed garden at he RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London
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tHE Duchess of Cambridge in the Adam White and Andree Davies co-designed 'Back to Nature' garden during build week at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
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A garden from an African women’s education charity “passionately” supported by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex has won gold at the Chelsea Flower Show.
The CAMFED garden, recreating a rural Zimbabwean classroom surrounded by crops such as beans and sweet potatoes in a landscape of red soil, was awarded a coveted gold medal in the “Space to Grow” category by judges from the Royal Horticultural Society.
Former telecoms executive Miranda Curtis, who chairs Camfed’s board of trustees, said she was “over the moon”.
“I didn’t think in a million years we would get gold with such a small budget and a first-time designer at Chelsea,” she said.
Harry and Meghan were not directly involved in the design of the garden by London-based landscaper Jilayne Rickards but Ms Curtis, who personally underwrote the £150,000 cost of the garden, said the royal couple were “very supportive and very engaged” with the charity.
She said the duchess had recorded a video message for a gala fundraising event in New York a fortnight ago “despite being just about to have her baby”.
The overall top award for a show garden went for the third time to Brighton-based designer Andy Sturgeon, who also has an office in Soho.
His “Best in Show” garden for financial group M&G Investments, which is the lead sponsor of the event, celebrates nature’s ability to recover after environmental devastation.
It includes 15 tonnes of burnt oak timber sculptures representing a ravaged landscape gradually being reclaimed by plants such as orchids and ferns.
Meanwhile on the showground’s main avenue, huge queues built up to view the garden that Meghan's sister-in-law the Duchess of Cambridge helped design.
Within minutes of the opening at 8am, hundreds of members of the RHS began lining up to view the Back to Nature garden which was the show’s “feature garden” and not assessed by judges.
Dawn Ray, 55, who lives near Reading and is a regular visitor to the annual show, said: “I’ve never seen a queue like this here before, it must be because of who it is.
“I’ve been waiting for 10 minutes already but I thought I had better queue now before it gets worse later on. I was really interested to see what all the hype was about.”
News of the duchess’s involvement in the garden, inspired by childhood memories of playing in a woodland glade, sent ticket sales surging.
A set of images of her visiting the garden with Prince William and their children Prince George, five, Princess Charlotte, four, and one-year-old Prince Louis were released by Kensington Palace earlier this week.
