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Wartime garden wins top prize at Chelsea Flower Show

Wednesday, 25 May 2005 12:00 AM

A garden that commemorates the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War has won the Best in Show prize at the Chelsea Flower Show.

A traditional English pub forms the centrepiece of the The Ecover Chelsea Pensioners' Garden, which is intended to be a nostalgic vision of Britain as seen through the eye of a soldier returning from the war.

Welcome home bunting and a 'Dig for Victory' vegetable garden also feature in the garden, designed by Julian Dowles appearing at his 26th Chelsea Flower Show; as does a patch of turf lifted from the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, where the pensioners live, to form a wildflower meadow with dandelions, buttercups and scabious.

The garden is also one of six show gardens to win a gold medal. Another is Fleming's Nurseries Float, designed by 24-year-old Jack Merlo, which is a "sleek, modern interpretation of the Australian landscape".

The centrepiece of the garden is a dramatic deck that curves up to a wall at one end. The deck is backed by a hedge forming another wall, and has overhead patterned screens forming a ceiling.

Meanwhile, eighties pop icon Kim Wilde is enjoying the fruits of her career change after wining a Gold Medal and best garden in the Courtyard Gardens category for The Curmbrian Fellside Garden.

Designed by Kim and Richard Lucas, the garden was inspired by the Cumbrian landscape and includes a dry stone wall with flowers protruding from the crevices, while fell streams are harnessed within a simple water feature.

Marcus Barnett and Philip Nixon picked up the award for best chic garden with their outdoor photography exhibition, while David Domoney's aircraft spare part inspired Reflections won best city garden.

The 2005 Chelsea Flower Show, which runs between 24 May and 28 May 2005, is the 83rd to be held at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea.

It is open to members of the show's organisers, the Royal Horticultural Society, on Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 and to the public for the remaining three days.

There are over 600 exhibitors and concludes with a big sell-off when many exhibitors sell off display plants and products at 1600 on Saturday.

For more information see the RHS website.

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