RHS Chelsea Flower Show: A Centenary Celebration
Author(s): Brent Elliott
Chelsea Flower Show is an annual, world famous and well-loved horticultural and social event. In May 2013 Chelsea celebrates its hundredth birthday. This book will be the essential centenary souvenir, and an enduring look at what makes Chelsea special. A learned but accessible text will explore how the show has evolved, how it is has formed part of the social calendar and how it has reflected and shaped tastes in garden design and planting over the years. Outstanding personalities will be highlighted as well as outstanding gardens. Sprinkled through the book, short pieces by significant nurserymen and nurserywomen, designers, organisers, visitors and patrons will describe what Chelsea means to them. The book will be arranged chronologically, with chapters on the early shows, shows between the wars and decade by decade to the present day. Illustrations will largely be drawn from the extensive Royal Horticultural Society archive and will include photographs in colour and black and white, plans, posters and other ephemera. Many will be published here for the first time.
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BRENT ELLIOTT can reasonably claim to be the world expert on the history of Chelsea Flower Show. He is librarian and archivist to the Royal Horticultural Society and author of numerous articles and books. He has written introductions and captions to the RHS diaries (published by Frances Lincoln) since 1993.
With contributions from: The Lieutenant Governor Major General Peter Currie (Royal Hospital) David Hawes, RHS show facilities assistant Mark Fane, garden builder and nurseryman Andy McIndoe, managing director, Hillier Nurseries Ricky Dorlay, master plantsman, Hillier Nurseries John Sales, RHS judge of show gardens since 1985 Andrew Lawson, photographer Jerry Harpur, photographer Alan Titchmarsh, gardener, writer and broadcaster Mavis Sweetingham, RHS show manager 1986-2003 Beth Chatto, plantswoman Rosy Hardy, partner at Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants Jekka McVicar, nurseryman Stephen Bennett, RHS shows director Bunny Guinness, landscape architect Sarah Eberle, garden designer Alexandra Denman, RHS Chelsea Flower Show manager 2007- Joe Swift, garden designer Ulf Nordfell, garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith, garden designer Cleve West, garden designer
General Fields
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- : Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
- : Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
- : 31 March 2013
- : 275mm X 215mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 April 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : Brent Elliott
- : Hardback
- : 1
- : 635.07442134
- : 200
- : 200 colour and b/w illustrations