Referaat "Chelsea Flower Show"
In 1929 Chelsea reflected garden styles that would be seen more than 50 years later:
great set pieces in which hardware and design were as important as the planting itself.
Although there were two more Shows before war was declared in September 1939,
the 1937 one was the last great Show before the Chelsea Flower Show closed from
1940 to 1946.
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After the Second World War, the RHS President Lord Aberconway told a gathering of
former exhibitors in October 1946, "Whatever else we go without, we should not go
without Chelsea Flower Show next year".
The problems of organizing the show in only seven months were immense: gardeners
had gone to war; glass was needed for blitzed buildings rather than greenhouses; and
Britain was gripped with austerity and rationing. During the war Britain had been
seriously bombed for the first time, so exhibits addressed the problems of what could
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