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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Caroline Davies and Helena Horton

Beaver-themed rewilding garden wins Chelsea flower show top prize

Unusually for Chelsea, native grasses are shown as they would be in the wild, with their previous year’s growth and pre-season seed-head remnants left on.
Unusually for Chelsea, native grasses are shown as they would be in the wild, with their previous year’s growth and pre-season seed-head remnants left on. Photograph: Jim Powell/The Guardian

A garden with hardly a bloom in sight and inspired by the dramatic transformation of land through the reintroduction of beavers to the UK has won best in show at the Chelsea flower show.

The garden – A Rewilding Britain Landscape by first-time Chelsea designers Lulu Urquhart and Adam Hunt – may lack eye-catching flowers but features a beaver dam, a pool with a lodge behind it, a shabby shed with corrugated iron roof and UK native plants.

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