Diarmuid Gavin’s tower for Westland Horticulture won a a silver medal at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show and the Most Creative Show Garden prize, but it has split the opinions of critics. Personally, I have still not made up my mind whether I ‘like’ it or not, but it is most certainly a very impressive structure and was a huge amount of fun to be able to experience it!
The View from Ground level. 
Two choices of getting up the structure….
A lift….
Or since there was a long queue, our other option was a series of narrow and steep ladders, in dresses and heels. (I’m sorry that I have no pictures of attempting to do this – although that is probably a good thing!)
Some views from the inside…
And some of the objects we came across on our journey up the tower….
(this is a genuine picture – from around the third floor up)
and of course the quickest way down… a helter skelter attached to the side of the 80 ft structure.
Just a few pictures of the tower for you to see, what do you think if it?
It looks a little like a building site, but certainly adds an element of fun to the Chelsea experience, not to mention the fact that many gardens attempt to challenge what a garden is. I’ll always remember the Plasticine garden James May and others created back in 2009 (they won a plasticine gold medal – RHS does have a sense of humour!)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/video/2009/may/18/james-may-plasticine-garden-chelsea-flower-show
I’d love to go one year
I agree it does look like a building site, it was a huge amount of fun, but I wont be re-creating my own any time soon!
Thank you for sharing the link, I really enjoyed the idea of using plasticine, the detail was amazing – can’t imagine the time it must of taken to make it all though!