{"id":8449,"date":"2012-06-03T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=8449"},"modified":"2012-06-03T16:49:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T16:49:00","slug":"river-thames-flower-festival-pageant-for-chelsea-fringe-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/river-thames-flower-festival-pageant-for-chelsea-fringe-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"River Thames Flower Festival Pageant for Chelsea Fringe 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8450\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/thames_jubilee_pageant_2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8450\" title=\"thames_jubilee_pageant_2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/thames_jubilee_pageant_2012.jpg\" alt=\"River Thames Pageant 2012 was a useful dress rehearsal for the Chelsea Fringe 2013\" width=\"775\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/thames_jubilee_pageant_2012.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/thames_jubilee_pageant_2012-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/thames_jubilee_pageant_2012-768x287.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/thames_jubilee_pageant_2012-624x233.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">River Thames Pageant 2012 was a useful dress rehearsal for the Chelsea Fringe 2013<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Royal Jubilee Pageant on the Thames was a useful trial run for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/londongardenswalk\/reclamation_londons_rivers\/thames_petition_flower_boat\">2013 Chelsea Fringe Flower Festival Pageant<\/a>, proposed for 2013. The lessons to learn are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best not to have the whole event on one very wet day<\/li>\n<li>The boats definitely need \u00a0more flowers than today&#8217;s event &#8211; Union Jacks are no substitute<\/li>\n<li>Music is a great addition<\/li>\n<li>Dressing up a commercial barge for the royal party is kinda undignified<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So here are my suggestions for the 2013 Chelsea Fringe event<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The royal party should travel from Westminster to open the Chelsea Flower Show in the new royal barge <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gloriana_(ship)\">Gloriana<\/a> (seen leading the procession on the left photo, above (and also in the photo below)<\/li>\n<li>Flower barge events should take place each day.<\/li>\n<li>One or more blooming boats should travel with flood tide each day from the Pool of London to Chelsea. This would be as popular with tourists as the changing of the guard in the Mall and Buckingham Palace.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/gloriana_royal_barge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8458\" title=\"gloriana_royal_barge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/gloriana_royal_barge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/gloriana_royal_barge.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/gloriana_royal_barge-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/gloriana_royal_barge-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/gloriana_royal_barge-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dc07703\/\">DC07703<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Royal Jubilee Pageant on the Thames was a useful trial run for the 2013 Chelsea Fringe Flower Festival Pageant, proposed for 2013. The lessons to learn are Best not to have the whole event on one very wet day The boats definitely need \u00a0more flowers than today&#8217;s event &#8211; Union Jacks are no substitute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}