A day at the Chelsea Flower Show

Take a look around the show gardens

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If you can\'t make it to the Chelsea Flower Show in person this year, join Allaboutyou for our pick of the outstanding creations on show. The Royal Horticultural Society organises many other flower shows around the country, throughout the year - for details visit www.rhs.org.uk.

This year one of the themes of Chelsea is environmentally friendly gardens that are designed to cope with climate change.

 

Photos: Adrienne Wyper 

The Bupa garden

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Exploring the value of outdoor space in terms of how it can enhance wellbeing, the garden highlights the importance of gardens in Bupa care homes. Brick paths invite you to take a journey, hedges tease the view and create intimacy around the seating areas. Plants, flowers, sculpture and running water have been chosen to enhance the overall sensory impact. The garden will be relocated to a Bupa care home after the show.

Gold medal winner 

The Savills Garden

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Designed as a secluded section of a larger garden owned by a collector of abstract painting and sculpture. Its structure and geometric lines are inspired by ideas from art, framing and gallery displays. Set on either side of a corridor, there are frames and views on either side. Planting is inspired by the colour and texture of abstract expressionist artists such as William de Kooning and Cy Twombly.

Gold medal winner 

The Daily Telegraph Garden

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Inspired by the purity of design of a traditional Japanese garden, this design also incorporates an English planting tradition. Every element of the hard landscaping has been reduced to its simplest form. The water is confined by Purbeck stone bands, with a sinuous Burlington slate path through the water lilies, leading the eye to the slate and mirror feature at the rear of the garden.

 

Gold medal winner 

The Laurent-Perrier garden

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Dominated by a grove of 30-year-old hornbeams, pruned into rounded cloud shapes, this is a contemplative space with a slightly surreal character. Its colour scheme is restful shades of green, punctuated with white. The grove is interspersed with a network of Flemish brick paths, so that you can wander at will. Handcrafted zinc tanks stand in the garden, brimming over with water, and there are cool, blue-toned zinc panels at the rear.

 

Gold medal winner 

Cancer Research UK Garden

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Created by award-winning designer Andy Sturgeon, this garden has been designed to highlight the progress that Cancer Research is making in beating cancer. Four reflective pools, larger nearer the front, are stirred by ripples, symbolising progress. A journey from old to new, with prehistoric plants to contemporary building materials uinderlines the progressive research by the charity. Key plants are large tree ferns, with orange, purple and blue planting.

 

Gold medal winner 

The Lloyds TSB Garden

garden inspiration,days out,in the city,London afw - chelsea flower show 08 - lloyds tsb garden This exciting garden is designed as a travellers\' retreat, that draws energy from its vibrancy and colour. Concrete platforms  - inspired by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and oak pathways suspend you above the water, with a curtain of falling water splitting the space

A Cadogan Garden

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A garden of dappled shade, lush planting and cooling water rills, this is set in a hotter, possibly wetter, London of the future. A double-layered tree canopy of palms and sculptural trees creates shade. Two rills flow through low planting, creating narrow vistas and informal irrigation channels. To the rear, a terrace features a statue of Sir Hans Sloane, the originator of the Cadogan Estate. In the piazza area at the front York stone paving is set with clipped planting and timber seats.

 

Gold medal winner 

The Oceânico Garden

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Created by Diarmuid Gavin and Sir Terence Conran, this city courtyard garden is centred on an open-sided metal and timber pavilion. Giant white daisies made of mesh, tower above lush foliage: a jungle of bamboos, ferns and dicksonias. Clearings floored with reclaimed brick provide places for diners to take in the view.

 

Bronze medal winner 

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