Moorcroft Ranelagh Gardens Plaque

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the world's greatest flower show, will be held for the first time ever in September this year. To celebrate its welcome return, Rachel Bishop presents a sumptuous autumnal design for everyone to enjoy.

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Designer: Rachel Bishop

With the usual cutting-edge garden design and fabulous floral displays, Moorcroft are delighted to see the long-awaited return of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Its new position in the autumn calendar provided Moorcroft with a plethora of garden inspiration never seen before at Chelsea. Autumn is usually associated with the maturing of the calendar year, but for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show it comes as a refreshing and revitalising opportunity. Autumn is the new spring!

Rachel's design features Dahlia 'Bishop's Children' - dahlias of burgundy and gold nestled amongst lagoon-blue salvia. The bouquet culminates with wild grasses and beautyberries, Callicarpa bodinieri, dashing to and fro in the excitement. The design's namesake stems from Ranelagh Gardens, the public pleasure gardens located in Chelsea in the 18th century, now part of the grounds of Chelsea Hospital and the site of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, a part of London that is now synonymous with floral excellence, in both botanical and pottery forms, around the world.