Welcome to Yorkshire to showcase Chelsea Flower Show Garden

God’s Own County – A Garden for Yorkshire has been designed by Matthew Wilson Credit: Welcome to Yorkshire

Welcome to Yorkshire will showcase a garden at the Chelsea Flower Show for the seventh consecutive year today.

160,000 visitors are expected to attend the show, including The Queen.

  • The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is organised by the Royal Horticultural Society which was founded in 1804.

  • In 1927 there was a campaign to get the RHS to ban foreign exhibits from RHS Chelsea to reduce competition with British firms. The RHS refused saying, ‘horticulture knows nothing of nationality.’

  • In 1932 the rain at the Show was so severe that a summer house display fell to pieces. One very wet year an exhibitor named it ‘The Chelsea Shower Flow’.

  • The Great Pavilion is roughly 11,775 square metres or 2.90 acres, enough room to park 500 London buses.

  • Of the firms that exhibited at the first Show in 1913, three can still be seen at the Show today: McBean’s Orchids, Blackmore & Langdon and Kelways Plants.