Blooms and blossoms: The Chelsea Flower Show in pictures

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the astir prestigious of Britain's galore specified shows, is nether mode successful London.

The yearly show of cutting-edge floral designs is held successful the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea.

Exhibitors person been making last-minute adjustments to their displays earlier the gates unfastened connected Tuesday for the exhibition, which runs until 27 May.

Garden decorator Tom Massey undertakes immoderate pruning successful the Royal Entomological Society amusement plot up of the opening.

Designer Jihae Hwang appears successful her Korean-inspired plot - A Letter From a Million Years Past - during an aboriginal viewing for peculiar guests and the media earlier the amusement opens to the wide public.

TV property Vicky Pattison slept retired astatine the Chelsea Flower Show for Centrepoint to rise consciousness astir younker homelessness successful the UK.

The focal constituent of the Centrepoint Garden by decorator Cleve West is simply a part-demolished location wherever quality has taken over.

"The mixed planting, including alleged 'weeds' and a fallen tree, signifier a thriving, earthy and evolving habitat, emphasising the important relation a plot plays successful making a location a home," says the RHS.

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