The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, The Princess Royal and The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester separately toured the show on Monday evening.<\/p>\n
This is gardening on an epic scale, with vast stalls showing every type of flowers, interspersed with gardening equipment and pit-stops of champagne every few yards.<\/p>\n
In a back to the fuschia moment, there was a tower of more than 20 different types of red, pink, white and purple fuschia, tumbling down.<\/p>\n
The show, smelling of flowers and money, also tried to show it has a sense of humour.<\/p>\n
For the first time this year there was a display from the “erotic gifts company”, Lovehoney, called “Aphrodite’s hothouse”.<\/p>\n
In this sneak preview, I was able to go through a “Gods only” entrance to see this scarlet-coloured display of vaguely suggestive-shaped flowers.<\/p>\n
It was designed by James Whiting who said that it was intended as a “tongue in cheek” and humourous presentation.<\/p>\n
He said there was something inherently romantic, and sometimes erotic, about flowers that wasn’t always acknowledged.<\/p>\n
Thousands more flower lovers will be arriving in Chelsea in the days ahead. There will be a sense of togetherness for all the gardeners gathered, after all, gnome man is an island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, The Princess Royal and The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester separately toured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-591223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}