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Death comes to the Chelsea Flower Show

17 May 2025

9:00 AM

17 May 2025

9:00 AM

It’s a matter of life and death at the Chelsea Flower Show this year. No murders are planned as far as we know, but there will be gravestones and even a coffin. This is to be a celebration of death.

The Royal Horticultural Society’s annual Flower Show will include funeral flowers in the Grand Pavilion for the first time since it moved to Chelsea in 1913.

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