The 2024 Chelsea Flower Show - Garden Furniture & Décor

27 May

My Experience and Key Highlights

The Chelsea Flower Show in London is not only a place to find brilliant garden designers or hunt for beautiful, rare plants and flowers, but it's also an event where you can discover true garden furniture gems. You'll find greenhouses, garden sculptures, and artistic fountains that elevate any outdoor space.

The Chelsea Flower Show is an annual event held in London, showcasing the work of England's best garden designers. These designers create what are called show gardens, which display their skills in garden design. They carefully prepare plants, borrow trees, and build sculptures and huts to demonstrate their abilities. Each designer has a unique style, often featuring rare plants or new breedings. It truly is the garden event of the year. The first day of the show is exclusively open to the Royal Family. After that, experts are allowed in, and finally, the general public can enjoy these fantastic installations.

My first visit at the Chelsea Flower Show

In 2024, I visited the Chelsea Flower Show for the first time. I went with my mum, who is a passionate gardener and has taught me a lot about plants—their names, origins, healing powers, and special looks. Since I could walk, she took my sister and me by the hand into her garden. It's because of her that I know a few things about gardening. For example, I know that she loves English gardens, not just because they are huge and lush, but also because they blend seamlessly with the nature beyond the garden.

The English garden imitates nature, so if you stand at the beginning of the garden, you would see grass, bushes, larger shrubs, trees, and they would blend into a forest in the distance, as if it were a painting. I've always loved this principle—getting inspired by nature and working on a garden that looks almost accidental or chaotic but is, in fact, a carefully composed arrangement of colors and shapes.

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With this knowledge in mind, I wandered through the gardens of the world. Entering the 2024 Chelsea Flower Show, I instantly recognized one thing: flower meadows were everywhere. If you didn’t know that everything here was just set up for three days, you might be fooled into thinking that someone simply scattered some flower seeds and left the place to grow naturally.

Understanding the trends

As a designer with a Masters Degree in Multi Media Art I am quiet good at reading trends and discovering patterns. So with an open I, I discovered some massive trends at the Chelsea Flower Show defining what we will see more in the future.

It was apparent that the traditional English green grass had been replaced by flower meadows. Many garden designers addressed global warming and the decline of insects. The gardens looked even more "natural" than I expected. The trend clearly says "back to nature." My mum told me that when she attended a few years ago, the focus was on vertical, urban gardening. Now, as I walk through the streets of Vienna, I can see that this trend of creating "nature-like" meadows has reached city gardens as well.

But the event is not only a happy place for gardeners; it was also inspiring to discover the most beautiful garden greenhouses and sculptures.