Chatsworth for the RHS Show New

 

 

For the first time in more than a decade, the RHS is embarking on a new show with a style and content unlike any of its existing events.

 

RHS Chatsworth Flower Show will run from 7-11 June 2017 and will be set within the 404.6ha (1000 acre) parkland of the Chatsworth Estate, home to the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. Adding to the show portfolio of the RHS, which already includes shows at Chelsea, Cardiff, Malvern, Hampton Court and Tatton Park in Cheshire, the Chatsworth event will seek to expand on current offerings and surprise and delight visitors with an immersive horticultural event experience.

 

Its overarching theme is ‘Design Revolutionaries’ and will celebrate not only the creative genius of gardeners and garden designers from the past, especially Joseph Paxton who was once the estate’s gardener, but also the talent, ideas and conceptual thinking of today’s generation of designers.

 

 

 

 

Chatsworth is home to the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, and has been passed down through 16 generations of the Cavendish family. It is a family home, a working farm and a living landscape.

 

The house is renowned for the quality of its art and landscape containing works of art that span 4,000 years, from ancient Roman and Egyptian sculpture, and masterpieces by Rembrandt, Reynolds and Veronese, to work by outstanding modern artists, including Lucian Freud, Edmund de Waal and David Nash.

 

Set in the heart of the Peak District, on the banks of the river Derwent, the gardens are famous for their rich history, historic and modern waterworks and sculptures. Design revolutionaries including ‘Capability’ Brown and Joseph Paxton played a pivotal role in shaping the gardens as they are today.