As Chelsea Flower Show kicks off, The Resident takes a look at the highlights of the 2019 programme, from the Duchess of Cambridge’s Back to Nature Garden to Facebook’s promise to take us Beyond the Screen and IKEA & Tom Dixon’s hope that Gardening Will Save the World
Lead image: Jazz singer Natalie Rushdie performs as Lady of the Lake at The Savills & David Harber Garden
Flick through the gallery below for further information and some spectacular gardening inspiration…
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- Jazz singer Natalie Rushdie performs as the legendary Lady of the Lake at The Savills and David Harber Garden
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- McQueens Per Oculus Apum Installation
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- A close up of McQueens Per Oculus Apum Installation (photo: Neil Hepworth/RHS)
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- The Duchess of Cambridge shows local school children around the Back to Nature Garden (photo: Luke MacGregor/RHS)
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- The tree house at the Back to Nature Garden designed by the Duchess of Cambridge with Andree Davies and Adam White (photo: Neil Hepworth/RHS)
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- The Wedgewood Garden designed by Jo Thompson (photo: Neil Hepworth/RHS)
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- A model dressed as a living sculpture poses in the Wedgwood garden during press day on 20 May 2019 (photo: Suzanne Plunkett/RHS)
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- Raymond Blanc at Jardin Blanc
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- Canapes at Jardin Blanc
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- The Silent Pool Gin Garden designed by: David Neale (photo: Sarah Cuttle/RHS)
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- Montessori school children exploring the D Day 75 Garden with Chelsea Pensioner Michael Dows
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- The Montessori Centenary Children’s Garden designed by Jody Lidgard and sponsored by Montessori St Nicholas and City Asset Management (photo: Sarah Cuttle/RHS)
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- The Montessori Centenary Children’s Garden designed by Jody Lidgard and sponsored by Montessori St Nicholas and City Asset Management (photo: Sarah Cuttle/RHS)
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- The Art of Viking Garden sponsored by Viking Cruises (photo: Sarah Cuttle/RHS)
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- RHS gold-medallist garden designer Paul Hervey-Brookes shows off his Art of Viking Garden
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- Facebook’s Beyond the Screen Garden designed by Joe Perkins (photo: Sarah Cuttle/RHS)
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- The Trailfinders Undiscovered Latin America Garden designed by Jonathan Snow (photo: Neil Hepworth/RHS)
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- IKEA and Tom Dixon: Gardening Will save the World (photo: Neil Hepworth/RHS)
Watch the young royals playing in the Back to Nature Garden with their parents, the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge:
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