Visitors to the Chelsea Flower Show always come away with new ideas for their own garden, whether it's specific plants, a colour scheme, or a structural piece to emulate. Read on for the top trends to try from this year's Show

Left: the Hae Woo Soo Garden (Emptying One's Mind) which won Best Artisan Garden, and must be the prettiest outside loo ever!

Words and photos: Adrienne Wyper

The nine-metre tumbling-tomato tower of the gold medal-winning B&Q Garden may be beyond most of us, but if you have a wall, you can use it to grow things up and upon. Climbing plants are the obvious way to utilise a vertical surface, but don't forget you can attach windowboxes and pots too. Read more: Choose climbing crops and Make the most of your growing space

In the Homebase Cornish Memories Garden (Silver-Gilt Flora winner), inspired by designer Tom Hoblyn's childhood memories of Bodmin Moor, three rills intertwine towards a large pool.

Narrow water channels were seen in many Chelsea gardens this year, and are a great way to introduce a water feature without having to dig a massive hole, build a pond, and then maintain it. This is also a safe water feature if children will use the garden.

Created from a shipping container, the RBC New Wild Garden, which won a Silver Gilt, is a model of sustainability. Its living roof offers a wildlife habitat, and helps with temperature regulation of the studio.

Living roofs, or turf roofs, can top sheds, bin cupboards, bike stores, or any other garden structure. Here's how to grow a living roof

Even the smallest garden may benefit from subdividing the space. Discovering a 'hidden' section, or just not being able to see the whole garden at a glance can make the area seem larger. The Bradstone Fusion garden uses concrete for its stacked louvre-style screens but the same function can be fulfilled by plants: hedging or tall planting, or by built structures such as fencing, walls or partitions. Here's how to create a living fence

A reworking of last year's Upwardly Mobile Garden, using most of its hard landscaping, A Fruitful Garden demonstrates how to get maximum use from a front garden, tapping into the trend for growing your own, wherever you can find the space. Here apple trees rise above dense planting with foxgloves, lupins mingling with gooseberries, raspberries, rhubarb, redcurrants and grapes. Read more on being a 'front-garden farmer'
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