EVERY year in May, Chelsea fever hits the gardening world, filling the TV schedule with coverage of incredible gardens and numerous celebrities. But Chelsea is not all about glamour: at the heart of the event are some truly show-stopping plants that anyone can use to transform their gardens.
It’s easy to think of Chelsea as being several steps away from normal life. There have certainly been some dramatic show gardens: Diarmuid Gavin’s Irish Sky Garden, the first airborne garden with a pod flying high above the showground, or a recent Best in Show, A Rewilding Britain Landscape featuring a beaver dam, to name just two. Even the less outlandish options, with their streams, waterfalls and stone sculptures, are hard to imagine be recreated, albeit on a smaller scale, outside our own back doors.
