Orchids - shown in full bloom

It's spring and the smell of flowers is beginning to hit the air for the first time this year. A perfect moment to be enticed by a full spectrum of orchids, from modern to historic, on display at the RHS London Orchid Show.

More than 40 exhibitors from around the world will be coming together to show off their exotic blooms, and there'll be a selection of orchids never before seen in the West - brought over from Japan exclusively for the event.

Also for the first time at the RHS show, Orchid Floriculturing from Taiwan, the world's leading orchid hybridiser, will be exhibiting the very latest magnificently coloured phalaenopsis.

Plus, there will be a display of 100-year-old hybrid orchids brought over by representatives of the French Senate from their collection at the Jardin Luxembourg in Paris.

This is a magnificent, colourful show on the world's most exotic pot plants that will delight even armchair gardeners.

RHS London Orchid Show
RHS Lawrence Hall, Westminster, Greycoat Street, London SW1
Dates: Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 March
Time: 10am to 5pm
Tickets: Saturday - £5 Sunday - £3 (RHS members - free)
Tickets available at the door or on 020 78 21 34 08