{"id":16155,"date":"2024-05-28T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T07:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=16155"},"modified":"2024-05-26T09:26:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T08:26:35","slug":"chelsea-flower-show-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=16155","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Flower Show &#8211; 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chelsea Flower Show: I have never had any desire to go to the Chelsea Flower Show and still have never been, but in 2005 I was persuaded by friends to go with them to photograph people on the streets taking flowers home at the end of the show. I&#8217;d previously largely and deliberately avoided this and other events that were part of London&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_season_(United_Kingdom)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Social Season<\/a> and I&#8217;ve not been since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2005\/05\/28\/050528_n155.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea Flower Show\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t known that this happened, but here is what I wrote back in 2005 (with the usual minor corrections):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>Chelsea Flower Show is the biggest event of the gardening season, and the crowds are huge. This year an extra day was added to cut down on the jams, though i don&#8217;t know how effective it was. Unless you are a gardening photographer, the most interesting part of the whole event is the end, when many of the plants on show are sold off and proudly carried home by their purchasers. As you can see from the pictures, they carry them along the streets to the bus stop or car park or coach, providing a rather unusual spectacle<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking through the work now, here are some of the pictures that caught my eye. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2005\/05\/28\/050528_n157.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea Flower Show\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2005\/05\/28\/050528_n169.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea Flower Show\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2005\/05\/28\/050528_n216.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea Flower Show\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2005\/05\/28\/050528_n254.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2005\/05\/28\/050528_n273.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2005\/05\/28\/050528_n284.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2005\/05\/28\/050528_n299.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2005\/05\/28\/050528_n410.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2005\/05\/28\/050528_n450.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I put rather a lot of pictures on-line and you can see many more<a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2005\/05\/may28-02.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> here on My London Diary<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" id=\"block-21592268-6698-4884-b8d2-0c04276c63b5\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" id=\"block-1347990f-e0e8-4f40-a8b0-aa6582de51ac\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/69163004@N00\/albums\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Flickr<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/peter.marshall.712\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">My London Diary<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hullphotos.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hull Photos<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/river-lea.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lea Valley<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/peter-marshall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paris<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petermarshallphotos.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">London&#8217;s Industrial Heritage<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buildingsoflondon.co.uk\/\">London Photos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" id=\"block-8dc66be1-c5ae-47e2-b405-4b303d7ef4e1\">All photographs on this page are copyright \u00a9 Peter Marshall. <br>Contact me to buy prints or licence to reproduce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" id=\"block-1ffbd6e4-34ed-4464-9d11-8ce09bf8d01e\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea Flower Show: I have never had any desire to go to the Chelsea Flower Show and still have never been, but in 2005 I was persuaded by friends to go with them to photograph people on the streets taking flowers home at the end of the show. I&#8217;d previously largely and deliberately avoided this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=16155\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chelsea Flower Show &#8211; 2005<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[16801,16802,3854,16800,17,1343,16803,83],"class_list":["post-16155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-londonphotos","category-my-own-work","tag-chelsea-flower-show","tag-flower-sale","tag-flowers","tag-helse","tag-london","tag-london-photos","tag-people-carrying-flowers","tag-peter-marshall"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16158,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16155\/revisions\/16158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}