From Monday 18th to Sunday 24th May, Chelsea in Bloom 2026 — London’s largest free-to-attend flower festival — returns with an ‘Out of This World’ theme, transforming Sloane Street, Pavilion Road and the wider Chelsea neighbourhood into a cosmic trail of dragons, UFOs, zodiac constellations and floral moonscapes.
More than 140 businesses will take part across the neighbourhood, with displays from brands including Jessica McCormack, Smythson and The Cadogan, A Belmond Hotel, competing for Gold, Silver, Bronze and Merit awards, alongside coveted titles including Best Floral Display and the public-voted People’s Champion.
Chelsea already buzzes with the unique glamour of a Wes Anderson garden party during Flower Show week. Dior raffia brushes past gardening linen. Someone emerges from Pavilion Road carrying hydrangeas large enough to alter their centre of gravity. Enormous bouquets of peonies are manoeuvred into the back of taxis with the concentration of a Formula One pit crew.
Lunch stretches into cocktails, cocktails into floral detours, and entirely rational adults become deeply emotionally invested in topiary. Frankly, introducing a giant Pegasus and a hovering UFO into the neighbourhood feels less like escalation, more like logical progression.
Alongside the participating boutiques, restaurants and hotels, Cadogan — in collaboration with the RHS — has commissioned six large-scale floral art installations across Chelsea, including a dreamlike zodiac constellation in Sloane Square, a UFO hovering above Pavilion Road, a lunar landscape in Duke of York Square and towering mythical creatures on Sloane Street itself. Complimentary rickshaw rides and walking tours will once again run throughout the week from the Chelsea in Bloom Information Point in Sloane Square.
During the week, expect exclusive flower-inspired menus and cocktails, complimentary posies, engaging workshops, and lots of other exciting happenings in the neighbourhood. Further details will be available at chelseainbloom.co.uk, where you can stay up to date with all of the exciting floral goings-on.
Until then, below are a few of the unmissable highlights during Chelsea in Bloom 2026…
Drink & Dine
Ottolenghi
The one-week flower and citrus menu at the Chelsea deli on Pavilion Road runs the full length of delicious: potato rösti with lavender bacon jam, lemon poppy choux, and Botivo orange slushies spiked with tequila for drinking in the sunshine.
261 Pavilion Road, SW1X 0BP
Beaverbrook Town House
At Sir Frank’s Bar, the hotel’s display has been translated into a limited edition cocktail called the Ryū (Japanese for dragon). It’s a gin-based concoction with watermelon shrub, lime juice, agave, yuzu, red wine reduction, garnished with flambeed dragon fruit. And we defy you to resist the indulgent exclusive dessert from the Fuji Grill: a rose-infused vanilla parfait, served with berries, raspberry sorbet and macadamia nut brittle.
115–116 Sloane Street, SW1X 9PJ
Ice Cream Union
Two celestial scoops for Chelsea in Bloom inspired by classic mythology: Ambrosia, a wildflower honey ice cream with ricotta and lemon, and Elysium, a cooling sorbet of pomegranate, lemon and fresh mint. The gods, it turns out, had excellent taste.
166 Pavilion Road, SW1X 0AW
Jumeirah Carlton Tower
The Astrolabe Discovery Stay puts telescopes on private balconies for skyline views by day and stargazing after dark. Meanwhile, down on Earth, a Laurent-Perrier Champagne van waits beside the hotel’s floral installation at the entrance — an elegant way to begin, or end, your day.
Cadogan Place, SW1X 9PY
Azzurra
Neptune’s Garden arrives in cocktail form: a limited-edition collection created with Everleaf non-alcoholic spirit, each drink balancing botanical, citrus and coastal notes. The perfect companion to the floral displays — refreshing, aromatic, and best sipped slowly.
127–128 Sloane Street, SW1X 9AS
Sir Frank's Bar at Beaverbrook Town House
Style & Shopping
Ami Paris
Pop in to collect an exclusive Ami Paris astrological card — each one connecting your star sign to the constellation-inspired story running through the week’s stellar motif. A small, lovely thing to take home.
135 Sloane Street, SW1X 9AX
Anine Bing
On Thursday 21 May, stylist Lindsey Barry will lead an in-store evening on how to wear your neutrals, with gifts for purchases over £750. Two days later, on Saturday May 23, mini bouquets will be handed out with every purchase. Two very good reasons to visit.
8 Symons Street, SW3 2TJ
Fiona Finds
On 20 May, the curated boutique partners with jewellery house Elizabeth Gage for an afternoon tea where design takes centre stage. A rare meeting of beautiful objects and good cake. Tickets (£50) are limited — book early here.
29 Lowndes St, SW1X 9HX
Fiona Finds' boutique
Inspired Experiences
Salon Sloane
A cart outside Salon Sloane will offer ribbons and blotters scented with Le Parfum, Sisley’s citrus-and-mimosa hair fragrance.
186 Pavilion Road, SW3 2BF
Alo Yoga
Throughout the week, psychic, tarot intuitive and meditation teacher Emily Halil will offer celestial readings that blend astrology and tarot inside the Alo studio. You’ll leave feeling seen, centred, and reconnected. No cosmic knowledge required.
33 King’s Road, SW3 4LX
Pet Pavilion
Bring your dog. The vintage butcher’s bicycle, frozen mid-flight, makes for the festival’s most joyful photo opportunity — hop on, settle your dog in the basket, and pose like you’re ready to pedal into the stars.
163 Kings Road, London SW3 5TX
Complimentary Rickshaw Rides
Free rickshaw rides and walking tours will once again run throughout the festival from the Chelsea in Bloom Information Point in Sloane Square — just the thing for when you didn’t opt for flats.
Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS
