This year the Chelsea Flower Show in London is scheduled for May 20-24 and it's not too early to book your tickets. The 2008 Chelsea Flower Show promises to be bigger and better than ever - with 600 exhibitors, at least 50 gardens and more than 100 floral exhibitors in the Great Pavilion.

International exhibitors are coming from Sweden, Barbados, Sri Lanka, France, Holland, Germany, Australia, Jamaica, South Africa, Trinidad & Tobago and Zimbabwe - so the chance to see something as exotic as the specimen pictured here is good.

There will be plenty of new ideas, in show gardens designed by such top British and international garden designers as Jinny Blom, Andy Sturgeon, Diarmuid Gavin, Sarah Eberle, Marcus Barnett, Philip Nixon and Gabriella Pape and Isabelle Van Groeningen. And several of Britain's top nurseries will be launching brand new flowers and plants.

Watch this space for a gallery of the new plants at Chelsea, next month, and meanwhile:

• Plan a visit and book your Chelsea Flower Show tickets
• Enjoy award winning show gardens from The Chelsea Flower Show 2007
• Check out prize winning orchids from the Chelsea Flower Show
• Peek inside the Great Pavilion at Chelsea 2007

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