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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