Last week's Chelsea Flower Show produced all sorts of weird and wonderful display – we sent photographer Charlie Hopkinson along to record his favourite sights.
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It’s always the same at these exhibitions: there are always a few wooden actors around…
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Not the result of a lengthy queue, but rather a Royal Navy serviceman at the CWGC Centenary Garden
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Topiary temptation for anyone hoping to capture a different view of the displays
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The wooden animals on display were extraordinary…
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…such as the horses…
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…and the clashing stags showing that sticks and stones really can break bones…
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If you go down to the Chelsea Flower Show today, you’re sure of a big surprise…
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Nigel Slater caught up with Country Life’s gardens editor, Kathryn Bradley-Hole
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Oriental influences were in evidence as always
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It was hard to believe that some of the gardens were merely temporary creations…
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“I couldn’t BELIEVE it when I saw someone else wearing the same dress as me!”
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The prettiest tuk-tuk we’ve ever seen…
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Anyone for ice cream?
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James Alexander-Sinclair poses in front of the Zoe Ball Listening Garden that he designed
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Some of the gardens brought the indoors outdoors
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The Breast Cancer Now Garden, designed by Rith Willmott
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Oranges were not the only fruit. But there were plenty of them in evidence.
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The overall winner of best show garden was James Basson’s M&G Garden, an evocation of a disused quarry in Malta
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The Morgan Stanley Garden by Chris Beardshaw