Fast forward to late 2023, when patients at a National Kidney Foundation meeting with FDA officials and pig developers described a life so miserable on dialysis that they, too, would chance an animal organ.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla toured the show Monday before it opens to regular visitors. The king is a patron of the Royal Horticultural Society, which puts on the annual event in London.The show is the place to see cutting-edge garden design, new plants and ideas to take home.
The displays highlighted natural planning, like moss paving and gravel paths bleeding into greenery. One garden was an example of the Atlantic temperate rainforest habitat that once covered western coasts of Britain.Charles and Camilla visited a dog garden and examined the King’s Rose, a new fuchsia-and-white-striped rose variety named after Charles in support of the King’s Foundation.Chelsea Pensioner Peter Wilson reaches up to touch a Punks head with a mohawk created with pampas grass, tropical blooms and preserved leaves part of Chelsea in Bloom by Ricky Paul Flowers at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Chelsea Pensioner Peter Wilson reaches up to touch a Punks head with a mohawk created with pampas grass, tropical blooms and preserved leaves part of Chelsea in Bloom by Ricky Paul Flowers at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)Chilli the dog wears has a chilli hat placed on his head in the BBC Radio 2 Dog Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Chilli the dog wears has a chilli hat placed on his head in the BBC Radio 2 Dog Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Britain’s King Charles III, patron of the Royal Horticultural Society, and Queen Camilla visit the Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday May 19, 2025. (Toby Melville/Pool via AP)The two-alarm fire took about two hours and as many as 45 firefighters to extinguish around 11 a.m., Evans said.
“While DFR personnel did search and attempt rescue, all animals in the shop unfortunately perished due to smoke inhalation,” Evans said.No people were injured in the fire. The structure of the large, one-story shopping center was severely damaged, including a partially collapsed roof, Evans said.
The shopping center includes multiple small businesses and was described on its Facebook page as “a place where people can go to eat, and buy all sorts of Latin goods and services.” A post on the page in Spanish asked for prayers for the families who work there.The cause of the fire was not immediately determined and is under investigation, Evans said.