{"id":15502,"date":"2013-05-25T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=15502"},"modified":"2013-07-11T10:33:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T18:33:54","slug":"chelsea-flower-show-turns-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/25\/chelsea-flower-show-turns-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Flower Show Turns 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chelsea Flower Show has celebrated its 100th birthday. London&#8217;s biggest gardening event welcomed its next century with typical pomp and floral beauty, and an added element: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/21\/world\/europe\/gnomes-pop-up-at-chelsea-flower-show-to-horror-of-many.html?_r=1&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">gnomes<\/a>. As always, orchids were a big part of the show. Word spread early that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/chelsea-flower-show-britains-rarest-1890897\" target=\"_blank\">one of Britain&#8217;s rarest orchids had its own team of bodyguards<\/a>. The extraordinary Lady Slipper on display, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/getty\/article\/ALeqM5imnYrIGkUh0xgBv7rnf33Hmm2wlg?docId=169102092\" target=\"_blank\">Cypripedium calceolus<\/a>, almost became extinct in Britain, and sadly, some orchid lovers just can&#8217;t be trusted. The plant is small enough for a thief to pocket, unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/london\/chelsea-flower-show-marc-quinn-unveils-mighty-bronze-orchid-8624080.html?action=gallery&amp;ino=1\" target=\"_blank\">a large, bronze Moth Orchid statue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Orchid award winners included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelonline.tv\/channelonline_guernseynews\/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=505309\" target=\"_blank\">this gold-winning exhibit from the Eric Young Orchid Foundation, featuring orchids varieties from 100 years ago<\/a>. More impressive exhibits from McBean&#8217;s Orchids and Akerne Orchids come courtesy of these two short videos from Jose Santos:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RHS London Orchid Show 2013 - I\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6gFcISJr6pQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RHS London Orchid Show 2013 II\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Is9GUeOX9z0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While you&#8217;d be forgiven for thinking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-2327391\/Chelsea-Flower-Show-2013-Zara-Phillips-the-royals-arrive.html\" target=\"_blank\">the show is more about celebrity and fashion than plants<\/a>, controversy has long been part of the event. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\/from-the-archive-blog\/2013\/may\/21\/chelsea-flower-show-100-years-century-archive\" target=\"_blank\">News coverage from the past century shows plenty of thorny commentary among the praise<\/a>. No matter your stand, any orchid lover can enjoy the video below showing the Queen admiring an orchid display. She even smiles a few times at the end. That&#8217;s Chelsea Flower Show gold.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ORCHID SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN STRIKES CHELSEA GOLD IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SRI LANKAL\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_zYFRAPKW6Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chelsea Flower Show has celebrated its 100th birthday. London&#8217;s biggest gardening event welcomed its next century with typical pomp and floral beauty, and an added element: gnomes. As always, orchids were a big part of the show. Word spread early that one of Britain&#8217;s rarest orchids had its own team of bodyguards. The extraordinary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-general-gardening","category-in-the-news","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15502"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15531,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502\/revisions\/15531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}