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Although the organisers may have sold out of tickets, fans can still get their hands on tickets for the Chelsea Flower Show though fan-to-fan ticket exchanges like the ones featured on our event ticket site. The Queen has already cast her eyes over this year’s attractions, which will attract around 157,000 people and many more bees and butterflies! Chelsea is renowned as the busiest and glitziest gardening event of the year with celebrities such as Joanna Lumley, Chris Tarrant and Michael Caine being spotted in recent years. The shops of Sloane Square also pitch in with their own RHS judged competition to celebrate the event.

You can see the show from the RHS’s live webcam coverage here.

The Chelsea Flower Show began in 1913 and was a chance for the great and the good to show off exotic breeds and chat over the delphiniums. Small garden plots for exhibitors these days cost around £250,000 and can make or break horticultural careers. The big hats are usually now reserved for Monday afternoon VIPs - when only a select number of exhibitors, RHS committee members and trustees can attend.

RHS members then have the chance to visit on the Tuesday and Wednesday. The general public are then invited to view the gardens on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

During show week, visitors knock back 49,000 glasses of Pimm’s, 5,000 bottles of champagne, 54,000 cups of tea and coffee and 28,000 sandwiches. An afternoon tea hamper costs £29.50 and tickets are now selling on the internet for around £69.