JAYNE LLOYD

PHOTOGRAPHER

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023, photographed by Jayne Lloyd for The English Garden Magazine. Photograph of The Nurture Landscapes Garden, designed by Sarah Price, showing a leafy garden with a tall tree in the centre and a wooden table and stools beneath, topped with potted plants, soft brown walls around with plants around the edges and a stack of bricks in the foreground.

Photography for The English Garden Magazine: RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023

I was really pleased to photograph the RHS Chelsea Flower Show for The English Garden Magazine again this year. I’ve been photographing Chelsea for The English Garden for a few years now and it’s always an amazing, super busy day trying to capture as much as possible, do the best job I can to capture the incredible gardens and figure out where I know that famous face from.

Following on from last year there was a lot of ‘natural’, achievable-looking planting and growing around more everyday situations, which was nice to see as well as more formal settings. That’s not to say anything looked in any way easy, though. It’s unbelievable to think how these small plots of land in a show ground get transformed into such incredible gardens that look like they’ve been established and honed for decades, and all so different from each other! At one point I walked up a hill to a waterfall, all within 10x15m.

As always I felt very inspired but we’ll see how much I manage to actually put into practice – hopefully at least a bit!

Here are some of my photographs from the day – I’ve kept it reasonably short and sweet here but you can see lots more with plenty of information about the gardens, plants and plenty of non-Chelsea garden inspiration and advice on The English Garden’s website.

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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023, photographed by Jayne Lloyd for The English Garden Magazine. Photograph taken inside a structure with colourful circular windows on a curved roof above, a wall made of log cross-sections to the right with a desk and two stools with a microscope, books and scientific instruments, a gravel surface to the left and an opening showing plants and cut wood behind.
The Royal Entomological Society Garden, designed by Tom Massey.
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023, photographed by Jayne Lloyd for The English Garden Magazine. Photograph of an iris with mauve edged and white centred petals, with yellow at the very centre, in The Nurture Landscapes Garden, designed by Sarah Price.
The Nurture Landscapes Garden, designed by Sarah Price.
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023, photographed by Jayne Lloyd for The English Garden Magazine. Photograph of A Letter From a Million Years Past, designed by Jihae Hwang, showing a rocky stream surrounded by lush green plants.
A Letter From a Million Years Past, designed by Jihae Hwang.
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023, photographed by Jayne Lloyd for The English Garden Magazine. Photograph of Charlotte Harris and Hugo Bugg standing in Horatio's Garden, which they designed. They are standing by a tree on a path, with flowers and plants in the bed to the left with a beehive-shaped brick structure and flowers within and a leafy hedge behind.
Horatio’s Garden, designed by Charlotte Harris and Hugo Bugg of Harris Bugg Studio
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023, photographed by Jayne Lloyd for The English Garden Magazine. Photograph of pink and white flowers with a wooden structure out of focus behind.
Horatio’s Garden, designed by Charlotte Harris and Hugo Bugg of Harris Bugg Studio
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023, photographed by Jayne Lloyd for The English Garden Magazine. Photograph showing bricks and rubble with plants and flowers growing amongst them.
The Centrepoint Garden, Designed by Cleve West
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023, photographed by Jayne Lloyd for The English Garden Magazine. Photograph taken inside the herb drying tower in A Letter From a Million Years Past, designed by Jihae Hwang, showing a wooden table with ceramic tea set, walls with slim open windows, a shelf set and bags hanging from wooden poles, in which herbs are drying.
A Letter From a Million Years Past, designed by Jihae Hwang.
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023, photographed by Jayne Lloyd for The English Garden Magazine. Photograph showing a Japanese garden with an acer to the left, stone steps by it leading to a stucture behind, a pond and waterfall surrounded by plants and rocks to the right.
The Biophilic Garden Otsu – Hanare, designed by Kazuyuki Ishihara
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023, photographed by Jayne Lloyd for The English Garden Magazine. The Biophilic Garden Otsu - Hanare, designed by Kazuyuki Ishihar. Photograph of purple irises in a pond with gravel on the bottom, rocks and moss around the edges.
The Biophilic Garden Otsu – Hanare, designed by Kazuyuki Ishihara
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023, photographed by Jayne Lloyd for The English Garden Magazine. Photograph showing a garden with worn gravel and brick path leading down through plants and flowers towards a damaged brick wall with a fireplace. In the foreground is a wooden structure on a thing pole and a silver birch.
The Centrepoint Garden, Designed by Cleve West
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023, photographed by Jayne Lloyd for The English Garden Magazine. Photograph of a rose that looks like a white rose splattered with red and pink paint.
Rosemary Day
Photograph looking down on a patio surrounded by plants and flowers with two chairs with cushions on them, a small table on a patterend rug with coffee mugs and jugs on top.
The RSPCA Garden, designed by Martyn Wilson
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023, photographed by Jayne Lloyd for The English Garden Magazine. Photograph of a peachy coloured rose and buds.
Dannahue
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023, photographed by Jayne Lloyd for The English Garden Magazine. Photograph of a stand in the pavillion with plinths topped with different mushrooms and a neon sign reading 'The Mush Room'
The Mush Room by The Caley Brothers

It was wonderful to work with the fantastic team at the The English Garden again! Make sure to visit their website for the full story and all the latest news from Chelsea.

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