Chelsea is the RHS's biggest brand, the most important garden event of the year, and a six-day showcase of the best of garden design, planting, innovation, flair, extravagance and ingenuity The book will benefit from the acres of print and hours of TV coverage the show receives With a foreword by Alan Titchmarsh, there is a natural link with the nightly BBC TV coverage viewed by an average of 3.2m gardeners and garden fans nightly during the show's run. Packed with garden design, celebrity designers and decorative details, with masterclasses on such subjects as topiary, recycling and other hot topics Reflects an increasing interest in celebrity garden design and decoration Essential purchase for gardeners who want to be stylish and contemporary. Chelsea is seen as the ground-breaking show for new ideas and plants.

Chris Young is a design graduate and is currently Deputy Editor of the Royal Horticultural Society's magazine, The Garden. He is an expert in design and planting and is ideally placed to analyse the annual offering of the Chelsea showcase. Britain's favourite gardener, Alan Titchmarsh, is the main presenter of the BBC's television coverage of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. He is known worldwide for his expertise in gardening and for his many internationally bestselling books. Photographer Steven Wooster is an award-winning photographer who is also a garden designer and writer. He is the author/photographer of the Complete Planting Design Course and Garden Lighting, both Mitchell Beazley titles.

Foreword from Alan Titchmarsh Introduction: The extraordinary examples set by Chelsea Flower Show designers and how to borrow, adapt and recreate their ideas Chelsea styles: what are the types of gardens you will see, from romantic to classic to Mediterranean to Arabic. Chapter one: Water Gardening Chapter two :Productive Gardens Chapter three: Entrances, paths and boundaries Chapter four: Sustainable Gardening Chapter five: Art in the Garden Chapter six: Planting Chapter seven: Lighting Chapter eight: Material magic Chapter nine: Outdoor Living Chelsea sourcebook: a guide to the designers, the designs, the suppliers and the websites. Index Acknowledgements