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Ringo Starr and his wife Barbara Photo: John Stillwell
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Tuesday May 19 2009
The Chelsea Flower Show opens today with green-fingered ideas to beat the recession sitting alongside the usual spectacular array of garden designs and products.
This year the highlight of the gardening calendar contains everything from new rose varieties for Olympic heroines to Plasticine gardens and a gnome in hiding.
The show opened its doors yesterday for Britain's Queen Elizabeth and senior royals along with stars from film, television and music, before the event opens to the public today.
Among those braving the occasional shower to look around were Rod Stewart and wife Penny Lancaster, Ringo Starr and his wife Barbara (seen here in our picture by John Stillwell), Sienna Miller, Bill Nighy and Philip Schofield.
The judging of exhibits took place yesterday with the winners of the coveted Royal Horticultural Society medals to be announced this morning.
Whether some of the more unusual designs -- such as 'Top Gear' presenter James May's Plasticine garden which does not contain a single plant -- will win official approval remains to be seen.
The presenter was philosophical about the possibility of winning the judge's approval: "They're a bit sniffy about it, some of them, because they think it's improper, but I think it's the best in show."
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