Look beyond the Chelsea flower show for gardening inspiration
Get your gardening fix elsewhere at these alternative events – without the crowds
May 2015
Gardening blog
Alt.gardening: The Chelsea Fringe Festival comes of age
A new generation of gardeners are cottoning on to the Chelsea Fringe Festival, now in its fourth year. Amicia de Moubray rounds up some of this year’s highlights
May 2014
Gardens: what we learned at Chelsea
Whether it's planting purple or learning to love weeds, Jane Perrone reveals the top 10 tips that every gardener can take home this week
May 2013
Gardens: the alternative Chelsea
The Chelsea Fringe is the antithesis of the RHS extravaganza, with more than 100 eclectic events from Bristol to Vienna, featuring everything from skip gardens and a pop-up poetry garden to a river of flowers. By Sally Nex
October 2012
Gardening blog
Chelsea Fringe 2013: could you be a part of it?
Now's your chance to get involved in next year's Chelsea Fringe festival, celebrating the world of plants and gardens
June 2012
Gardening blog
Chelsea Fringe Festival – pick of week three
Helen Babbs selects some Chelsea Fringe events you shouldn't miss during its third and final week
May 2012
Gardening blog
Fringe thoughts: a dispatch from the other Chelsea festival
Chelsea Fringe festival 2012: projects in pictures
Gardening blog
Chelsea Fringe festival – pick of week two
Guerrilla gardening: a frontline tour - in pictures
Gardening blog
The Chelsea Fringe festival - pick of the week
Gardens: Chelsea Fringe festival
July 2011
Gardening blog
The Chelsea Fringe needs you
Pop-up gardens in lorries, boats full of plants on the Thames and art installations: Tim Richardson unveils plans for a new festival of gardening
