The bees are buzzing, the Chelsea Pensioners are posing in their finest red coat tails and horticulture legend Monty Don is brushing shoulders with the Princess of Wales, Dame Judi Dench and Matthew Macfadyen among the foxgloves in the show gardens.
It can only mean one thing: Chelsea Flower Show — the most prestigious in the world and the starting whistle of the British summer calendar — is back for another six days of fashion, flowers and flashes of royalty in SW3.
