Chelsea Flower Show 2009

The 2009 Chelsea Flower Show is just about to explode into bloom - have you got your tickets yet?!

Chelsea Flower Show Cocktail

Gustavo Bertolucci, head mixologist at Pearl Restuarant and Bar has created an extravagant and delicious cocktail especially for the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show! 

Follow the recipe below to make your own, which should be garnished with a Singapore Orchid and presented in a Martini glass! Alternatively, you can just visit Pearl and buy one for £13.75. But be quick! It's only available from the 1st May 2009 for 6 weeks!

Chelsea Flower Show Cocktail ingredients:

Ruinart Rosé champagne

Dash of orange bitters

25ml of cranberry juice

10ml of cranberry syrup

25ml of Tanqueray gin

25ml of Kwai Feh lychee liqueur

Method:

Shake the gin, cranberry juice and syrup, orange bitters, and lychee liqueur; ideally in a Boston Shaker. Then double strain the mixture into a Martini glass. Top up with Ruinart Rosé champagne and garnish with a beautiful Singapore orchid!

If you fancy treating yourself to the real thing, visit the Pearl website.

Getting ready for Chelsea!

I was taking a taxi ride through Chelsea on Tuesday morning - and saw plenty of signs of the Chelsea Flower Show getting ready to bloom!

Unfortunately I couldn't peer in! They had big green sheets covering the railings so there were no sneak peeks of what's instore!

RSS Feed of flower shows

Want to keep up to date with your flower shows? Use an RSS reader? 

Then hop over to FlowerShowTickets and subscribe to our RSS feed! Simply click on the orange RSS icon or the RSS link, and copy and paste the URL of the page you'll then see into your feed burner/reader.

New calendar Widget

We've now made our great little flower show calendar into a widget, so you can copy and paste a little bit of code and show our calendar on your website. And whenever another show is added to our site, it will automatically appear on the calendar!

To get your widget, simply visit our flower shows page and copy and paste the few lines of code. You can even resize the calendar to suit your site.

New flower show tickets site launches.

Yey! It's launch night! The new flowershowtickets.org.uk site has gone live this evening, and we love the new look.

It features flower show news from all over the country, a gardening directory if you're looking for a hand, and of course - listings of all the flower shows we can get our hands on!

If you're arranging a flower show, don't forget to add it to the site - as all listings are free of charge.