Giant moon and UFO take over west London for Chelsea in Bloom

Chelsea has been transformed into an "intergalactic wonderland" of floral displays as London's largest free flower festival returns for its 21st year. Chelsea in Bloom, which began on Monday 18 May and lasts until Sunday 24 May, with more than 145 shops, restaurants, hotels and businesses across the west London neighbourhood taking part. The 2026 theme is "Out of this World", with installations inspired by space travel, astrology and spiritual symbolism. Highlights include an enormous floral globe on the King's Road created in honour of Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday, and a UFO suspended over Pavilion Road. The trail features a zodiac-inspired constellation in Sloane Square, a lunar landscape and Saturn display at Duke of York Square, and a four-metre floral dragon and Pegasus on Sloane Street. Produced by Cadogan in association with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), the event runs alongside the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and is designed to extend it into the surrounding streets. Ruth Davies, founder of floral design studio All for Love London, is behind one of the festival's standout installations: a four-metre astronaut and a six-metre moon on the King's Road. "When we