Countrylife.co.uk at Chelsea Flower Show 2012
This year's Chelsea was colourful, and popular with everyone, with particularly beautiful gardens from Laurent Perrier and The Caravan Club

The Laurent-Perrier Bicentenary garden by Arne Maynard

The M&G Garden by Andy Sturgeon

The RBC Blue Water Garden Prof Nigel Dunnett & The Landscape Agency

Arthritis Research UK Garden designed by Thomas Hoblyn

The Brewin Dolphin Garden designed by Cleve West

The Caravan Club's Celebration of Caravanning designed by Jo Thompson

Georgie Newbery from Common Farm Flowers in Somerset was handing out pretty posies
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