Constance Spry Chelsea Flower Show Stand Detail

A detail from a display on the Constance Spry Chelsea Flower Show Stand in the mid-1950s. Spry writes in 'Party Flowers', "It is not enough to love flowers to arrange them; it is very good first to love them, but beyond that it is necessary to work, to practise, to observe, to criticize, to be rarely, very rarely satisfied, to think and imagine and try again and again; and what infinite pleasure there is in it, and how much richer your everyday life becomes. It becomes richer because every hedgerow and field, every garden, little or big, every street barrow, flower-shop window, or weed-filled bombed site holds the material for your art or hobby or whatever name you chose to give it, and your imagination is fired and feeds on things that perhaps before you never even noticed...."
Image from a Constance Spry photograph album, Ref: 2019.265.2