Top trends from the Chelsea Flower Show 2009

Working with wood

This natural material was used in myriad ways: to define spaces, as wall cladding, for seating and as insect homes. Redwood featured as vertical wave forms in the Foreign & Colonial Investments' Garden, and message-carrying totels in The Key, while slices of beech trunk were seats in Future Nature, and square arches in the front gardens of The Marshalls Living Street.

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