Referaat "Chelsea Flower Show"
morning.)
Judging on the Monday follows a well-tested routine: each panel meets at a set time,
with its own chairman and secretary, to visit, examine and discuss each exhibit.
Gala Preview on the Monday evening drinks Homeric amounts of champagne. The
Council meets at 9pm for a session that goes on for three hours.
No one except the RHS Council and the administration is allowed to know the award
winners until the Thursday morning. The Council members therefore totter wearly to
bed, while the Show Department take over. Even thought it is now very late, each
medal card about 300 in all is neatly written out and delivered to the correct
exhibit.
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Facts about Chelsea Flower Show
Putting on the Show
· Each show is planned 18 months in advance by Royal Horticultural Society
staff, exhibitors and contractors