Don’t tidy that garden up! It’s just won first prize at Chelsea...
IF you peered over your neighbour’s fence to see this flooded plot, complete with ramshackle shed and a large pile of sticks, you might politely offer to help them with the gardening.
But having been presented to the judges at Chelsea Flower Show – for this is indeed an exhibit there – Rewilding Britain’s entry won the top prize.
Designers Lulu Urquhart and Adam Hunt swapped traditional blooms for flowering weeds – and included a dam made of branches nibbled by beavers.
It showed, Mr Hunt explained, how the creatures can channel water and prevent flooding naturally. Clutching his best in show prize, he added: ‘This isn’t a political garden. It comes from the heart.’
The Rewilding Britain charity wants 5 per cent of the country to be returned to an uncultivated state to help tackle climate change.
Rising temperatures in the Arctic were highlighted in John Warland’s entry, with a 15-ton ice block at its heart.