As the Chelsea Flower Show celebrates it's centenary next week, I too will be raising a glass to my favourite moment of the season whilst having lunch at the Fortnum & Mason tent.

Meanwhile if you haven't managed to get tickets for this year's show - Chelsea Fringe ensures masses of floral fantasy to get stuck into.

Many of the local shops (Space NK, Liz Earle, Anya Hindmarch and Peter Jones to name a few) take part in www.chelseainbloom.com - a fiercely competitive and wildly creative competition judged by RHS judges, to create the most fabulous fresh flower arrangements.

At Belgraves hotel (www.thompsonhotels.com) you can check in for Bed, Brunch & Botany - which includes cocktail classes on the hotel's open air terrace, which for Chelsea week has been transformed into an edible garden.

Chelsea mania spreads to St James where at www.dukeshotel.com they'll be serving up a Rose Martini whilst at the www.interncontinental.com in Wesminster it's a flower show inspired tea with chocolate butterflies, violet éclairs and lots of pink Laurent Perrier champagne.

And budding flower-arrangers should head to Notting Hill's Couverture shop, where dream florists www.scarletandviolet.com have set up for the week and on Thursday 23rd, founder Vic Brotherson will be holding floristry masterclasses (to book your place email linda@couverture.co.uk).

Back to the Kings Road, where LA Perfumer www.royalapothic.com has been invited by www.anthropologie.com to create a bespoke scent for the store called Antiquarius Petals and to set up an apothecary in their exhibition space. The scent is named after the famous Kings Road building that Anthropologie inhabits, it smells delicious and comes with an elegant atomiser. What a lovely way to start the summer season.

Rose Uniacke, London's most elegant interior designer, opened her new shop and design studio in Pimlico this week.

Her original shop (which she opened in 2009) has spread seamlessly into the space next door, and the newly engorged shop is near perfect.

If my praise sounds oleaginous, then I'm sorry. But in my wildest of home-making dreams, Rose is there, calmly decorating my flat. Frankly I'd even be happy with Uniacke designing a humble cupboard - just so that I could have a little piece of her clean, lean aesthetic about the place.

The shop is like one clearly constructed sentence that very simply describes her interior design philosophy. Don't scrimp on the bones… So, there are beautifully pared-back floorboards laid at various angles that anchor the rooms in which just a few carefully chosen antiques sit alongside Uniacke's eponymous line of knockout chic sofas, lights and tables. It's like walking into a fruit shop and finding just one, completely perfect and delicious (and expensive) banana.

Down the curved staircase is where the ever-expanding worker bee design-team can be found grafting away at creating the understated schemes Uniacke is known for. A cool, relaxing aesthetic so welcome amongst a sea of nutty, brash interiors often seen in fancy London houses.

It's 10/10 from me for Rose Uniacke's new shop. If I could live there, I would.

Rose Uniacke, 76-82 Pimlico Road, London SW1W 8PL
Tel: 020 7730 7050
www.roseuniacke.com

And so with May on the horizon, the jolly old season of British sporting events begins - time to clip-clop around grassy racetracks in unsuitable footwear, dress-up in pretty summer frocks with Ranulph Fiennes-type thermals underneath and negotiate how to kiss people 'hello' when they've got a veiled flying saucer atop their barnet.

In amongst the sailing, flower shows and grunting-tennis, there is of course the glamorous world of polo. Despite it looking fantastically thrilling, I've never really understood or got into polo (besides the excellent Jilly Cooper novel!)

But there's nothing I don't understand about the following words, 'Polo's hottest horseman'. For this is how an article in Vanity Fair in 2009 described Nacho Figueras; captain of the BlackWatch polo team, Ralph Lauren model and known as 'Beckham of the polo world'.

And on Saturday 18th May Figueras himself will be found thwacking balls at Cowdray as he captains the South American team as they take on the Audi England team at the 6th Annual St. Regis International Cup. This is a classic 'season' event; there will be Perrier-Jouët champagne swilling, divot stomping and guests slightly clueless about why there are no left-handed polo players. (Yup, left-handers are banned for safety).

The match continues the St. Regis' long standing commitment to polo - a love affair that began in 1904 when the Astor family (who founded The St. Regis in New York city) would host glamorous tea or supper after matches at Governor's Island. No doubt enjoying a Bloody Mary or two, the cocktail so brilliantly invented in the hotel's bar.

www.stregispolo.com

St. Regis Hotels & Resort offered all Vanity Fair A-List readers the chance to win 2 VIP tickets to the 6th Annual St. Regis International Cup on Saturday 18th May at the St. Regis hospitality marquee including Bloody Mary cocktails, Perrier-Jouët Champagne and The St. Regis Afternoon Tea. This prize also includes a stay at The St. Regis Florence, Italy (a historic palace on the river Arno, designed by Renaissance master Brunelleschi and minutes away from the city's museums and the Ponte Vecchio) for 2 nights for 2 people including breakfast. Don't miss out on future offers, sign up to the A-List.