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Video: The B&Q Garden, designed by Laurie Chetwood and Patrick Collins

This is the second collaboration between architect Laurie Chetwood and horticulturalist Patrick Collins; the first, The Perfume Garden in 2009, won them the prize for the most creative garden. Back with a response to food security the team wanted to create a garden which could produce food self-sufficiently in an urban setting.
A 9m tower rises up from horizontal beds filled with edible herbs, lfowers and vegetables. The tower is covered on one side by a herb green wall and on another window boxes spill over with nasturtiums, tumbling tomatoes and chillies. Set beneath the tower a glass banqueting table contains live fish and has the potential to hold edible species too. The garden is finished with pleeched limes and mulberry trees.

This video tour is taken from the 大象传媒 Red Button coverage of RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2011.

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5 minutes