This May sees the 100th year of RHS Chelsea Flower Show, that enduring and incredibly popular hardy annual flower and gardening show that inspires gardeners, real and imaginary, all over London and across the length and breadth of Great Britain.
Now 150 years old, the London Underground can claim a greater pedigree and is also incredibly enduring and popular enabling over a billion people a year to move around London for work and leisure. Reviving a great tradition, the Underground in its 150th year is publicising the 100th RHS Chelsea Flower Show with a special poster depicting the tube map with its coloured lines as both common and unusual flowers.
Amongst the flowers chosen to be illustrated on the poster are:
Grey Hydrangeas – Jubilee line
Chocolate Cosmos – Bakerloo line
Green Chrysanthemum – District line
Blue Tulip - Piccadilly line
Black Pansy – Northern line
Red Rose – Central line
Himalayan Blue Poppy – Waterloo & City line
Maroon Lily – Metropolitan line
Blue Geranium – Victoria line
Allamanda Cathartica – Circle line
Pink Gerbera – Hammersmith & City line
Orange Gerbera – Overground
The poster will be available from London Transport Museum shop in Covent Garden Piazza or online www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk
