2010BankHolidays.co.uk provides
information about the English, Welsh and Scottish Bank Holidays in 2010. The site also tells
you know about things you might like to on your Bank Holiday break.
Plus, we've included a short history of Bank Holidays.
RHS Flower Shows
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is Britain's outstanding gardening charity. With a history of over two centuries, the RHS is dedicated to promoting horticulture and encouraging widespread interest in gardening in both public and private spaces. The Society depends on membership subscriptions to achieve the goal of sharing a passion for plants and gardening with country-wide audience of professionals, amateurs and enthusiasts. Over the decades, the Society has continued to operate four RHS gardens, host more than a dozen shows every year across the UK, extend free support to members and work with school children to catch them young at this healthy hobby.
Whether you are an active gardener or an armchair connoisseur of plants and flowers, you are likely to find it worth your while and your money to make a visit to any of RHS's flower shows.
Bute Park, Cardiff Castle is the venue for the first show of the year, scheduled for the third weekend of April. The RHS Show Cardiff, where kids under 16 go free, promises floral marquees, a wheelbarrow competition and inspirational show gardens apart from the ever-ready help of RHS gardening advisors.
In the last week of May, Royal Hospital at Chelsea will host the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. This world-famous celebration of flowers will let you shop for your garden, feast your eyes on colours from UK's best nurseries and stroll at leisure within Places of Change, the largest show garden ever seen at Chelsea.
Into its 20th year, the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show will offer a 6-day treat for rose-lovers in July. And if you are a foodie as well, you may not want to miss expert fruit and vegetable growers' advice and cookery demonstrations.
Later in July, Cheshire residents and visitors will be able to witness the Eurofleurs Floristry Competition and the selection of RHS National Young Designer of the Year at Mereheath Lane, Knutsford, the venue of RHS Show Tatton Park.