Watch Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show 2017 Video | Behind the Scenes

“The 48 hours before the world’s greatest annual flower show opens its gates to the celebrities and press and general public (from Tuesday to Sunday), the designers, landscapers and planting teams are putting the finishing touches to their creations that they have been planning for the best part of a year.

“Intrepid horticultural whizz Pattie Barron donned the compulsory hi-vis jacket, passed on the optional metal-capped boots and ventured forth down the bark-chipped paths of the forthcoming RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017, dodging the plant vans, pulleys and TV crews in order to see how the exhibits – and the exhibitors – were progressing.”

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