The Chelsea Flower Show is a catwalk for the haute couture of the horticultural world. Whether you’re interested in gardening or not, no one can deny the creative beauty of the event, with some of the most breathtaking garden designs and rarest plant-life of the world on display; not to mention the charmingly intoxicating aromas that arise from the exhibits.

While Chelsea is hardly an area of London that’s short of well-dressed personalities, the week does not just play host to the arrival of some of the most carefully-pruned shrubbery you’ve ever seen. This most flowery of weeks also sees an annual influx of designers, royals and celebrities, all of whom don their best floral attire (and some extravagantly blossoming headwear) especially for the event.

Even if not attending, few could forget that the country’s favourite horticultural event was taking place. From the shop windows of West London that adorn their displays with flower arrangements, and the trending hashtags of #RHSChelsea, to the new floral-inspired collections that launch from fashion houses around this time; from Ted Baker to Hunter, who this year even went as far as collaborating with the Royal Horticultural Society on a chic new line of boots with a historic floral print (also ideal for upcoming festival season!)

As for the show itself, held in the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, each year sees a new prestigious dimension of flora and fauna added to its roster, with Harrods’ first concept garden taking the biscuit for 2015 with their celebration of perfume through flowers.

Titled ‘The Fragrance Garden’, this collaboration between one of the world’s most famed luxury department stores and award-winning garden designer Sheena Seeks shone a spotlight on the relatively new relationship of nature and technology in the world of perfumery. It followed the launch of Harrods’ sixth floor Salon de Parfums (where one can create a bespoke scent tailored to their mood or personality), with their first concept garden designed to present the natural fragrances of flowers being turned into perfume; a mere imitation of nature’s scent.

Signifying both the natural and synthetic sides of perfumery, one side of the Harrods concept garden featured giant test tubes filled with flowers used in traditional perfume-making, while the opposite side showed them transformed into oversized paper flowers. The exhibit also included what designer Seeks called ‘augmented reality images’ displayed on giant books which, when viewed through a smartphone, showed digital flowers coming to life. The creativity and technological innovation of the garden led the Harrods concept garden to scoop the Silver Gilt medal for Fresh Gardens.

Awarded the same Silver Gilt medal was another of my favourites – the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Garden designed by Ruth Willmott, who tragically lost a close family member to the disease in 2014 and sought to help the charity raise money for its research. Her eye-catching concept garden featured a stone pathway that wound its way through the garden in the shape of a double-helix (DNA), crossed by a ribbon of soft pink flowers that symbolised the charity. To make her exhibit that bit more poignant, Willmott also included pools of water in the design, which rippled every 10 minutes to mark the frightening statistic of how often another woman in the UK is diagnosed with this disease. Unsurprisingly, her garden won the People’s Choice award.

Speaking of award-winners, no feature on the Chelsea Flower Show would be complete without mention of the best-in-show gold-medallist that quite rightfully, had visitors raving. Sponsored by French natural beauty boutique chain L’Occitane, James Basson’s ‘A Perfumer’s Garden in Grasse’ exhibit was made up of flowers and herbs planted in geometric beds; so delightfully scented that a single sniff was enough to transport you to the Mediterranean.

While every year at the Chelsea Flower Show sees most people making a beeline for the show gardens, another of the absolute must-sees at the 2015 event was the latest creation from artist Paul Cummins; a sculpture rather than a garden. You may (or rather, you should) recognise his name as the man behind the thought-provoking ceramic poppies that were on display at the Tower of London last year. His addition to this year’s Chelsea Flower Show took centre stage in the Grand Pavilion; an 8-foot tall tower of 1,500 multi-coloured tulips that was the subject of many a selfie throughout the week.

But that’s not to say this year’s show gardens weren’t something to behold. The 2015 selection were so elaborate that they could inspire even the least green-fingered attendees to give Alan Titchmarsh a run for his money…myself included. It’s safe to say anyone who visits next year’s show will have their eyes well and truly opened when it comes to gardening. Trust me, you’ll be starting a project to transform that modest London terrace into a horticultural sanctuary in no time…