The Chelsea Flower Show, London’s legendary celebration of gardening, gets under way today, continuing a tradition that started in 1913, interrupted only by wartime. The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show is bigger, but Chelsea is still the most prestigious. The weather is forecast to be cloudy this year, with the odd rain shower, But sometimes, the vagaries of the English climate really does get in the way. Another wet year an exhibitor named it “The Chelsea Shower Flow.”Whatever the weather, you can be pretty sure there will be 157,000 visitors, which is a limit imposed since 1988 by the capacity of the site at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. In 1932 the rain at the show was so severe that a summer house display fell to pieces.

Source: thestar May 24, 2016 09:41 UTC