The RHS Chelsea Experience
Chelsea is not just about the medals it is about what you create. Starting with only an empty patch of grass in the Royal Chelsea Hospital grounds, human creativity and ingenuity creates the show in all its glory. Gardens and life literally spring out of the ground and the wildlife moves in to create an oasis of fauna, unusual objects, colour and movement which stimulates the senses and the soul.
The first Chelsea Flower Show in 1913 took place in a single tent, cost £3,365 to stage and made a profit of £88. The last 100 years have seen many changes, but it still seems incredible that such an amazing show can be built from scratch in 19 days and dismantled in five; there is no doubt that any returning Edwardians wouldn’t fail to recognise that the passion and the ‘flower power’ lives on!
Chelsea in Norfolk!?
Visit our New Juniper Sky Show Garden – Bringing Chelsea To Norfolk!
Address
Foras Ltd
West Head Road
Stow Bridge
Kings Lynn
Norfolk
PE34 3NJ
Chelsea 2006
Our Debut Garden
Outstanding Presentation award
We built a garden and won an Outstanding Presentation award, Our Founder and Director Claire Brutnall also met Carol Thatcher!
Chelsea 2012
Foras Sculpture Garden
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
Gold Medal
We were tasked to create a show garden in the Grand Marquee. This is a god send if it is raining but if it is hot the flowers can erupt too far, too early. Everything must be spot on for the judging.
The Foras Sculpture Garden was born… 25 square meters of planting and sculptures. It showcased 6 sculptures and one water feature within the design, creating varying heights and sound, surrounded by 500 plants to join everything together seamlessly.
This is evidenced in the cobbled path which makes its way through the garden and the meadow.
The great ‘Say it how it is no nonsense gardener’ Christine Walkden came to see the garden and said that in her view it was a gold award winner and indeed it was.
Chelsea 2013
The Secret Garden of 100 years
Gold Medal
After the Gold medal winning performance the year before, we were asked back again together with the same horticulturalist team we worked with on the sculpture garden. We clearly had a winning formula. Mark and Lynn Riches would take on a bigger project this time, working with other specialists and sponsors to create a garden of two halves. The garden was divided into 2 by a drystone folly.
The garden’s objective was to take you back to horticulture of 100 years ago, when the RHS Chelsea Flower Show first began, with plants and materials that made you feel like you had stepped back in time. In contrast, as you looked round the corner or open the magical wooden door there was something different to see.
In the traditional side of the garden were the classic Chelsea planting favourites of foxgloves, lupins delphiniums, salvias, alliums and agapanthus; seated in the middle was our Bliss Matrix Water feature. The ball appeared to float on the heightened legs and could be seen above the higher plants, the open water reservoir bellow created a pond. Moving along from the traditional section, a giant angelica lead the way to the hydroponics dome (technology for growing), modern plants and materials.
Through the door and there was a traditional vegetable patch and shed with the largest leeks you have ever seen!
2021 Juniper Sky Show Garden
This year we have put Chelsea into Norfolk
. View our New Show garden, Juniper Sky, Here!