Chelsea flower show
24-28 May 2011. Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London
B&Q's garden show
This year B&Q is delighted to once again be part of RHS Chelsea Flower Show. We're setting our sights high with our show garden! Designed and built by Laurie Chetwood and Patrick Collins, it incorporates a 9m high living wall, one side of which is a vertical allotment, the other side comprises a vertical potting shed. The vertical allotment showcases window box designs by B&Q employees. The vertical potting shed will display, amongst other sustainable ideas, insect hotels created by young people in Kent. See how they got on!
This is the highest ever garden show at RHS Chelsea, and what more, it's ALL edible! Come and see us from
24–28 May and we'll show you that everyone can grow their own food, however large or small their outdoor space – from large garden to the tiniest window box.
Let's get gardening
Growing your own garden is possible in ANY space! Use a window box, planters or hanging baskets, it's really that easy. We've been poking our green fingers into some fairly unlikely places recently - just take a look at this video. You'll be amazed how easy it is to transform even the smallest of spaces. Why not have a go yourself?
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With edible gardens, your food goes from plant to plate without any packaging waste or carbon emissions from food miles.
Our B&Q garden will show you just how easy this is in any range of aspects and situations. With the majority of plant species available to buy at your local B&Q it's simple to grow fruit, vegetables and other edible plants.
Image Gallery. See what we're up to at Chelsea
- Take a look at what B&Q is doing at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
View the latest photos and images from Chelsea here.
Rollover each image for a description, and scroll to see more.
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B&Q Gold Medal
Chelsea Flower Show 24/05/11 -
B&Q's Gold medal
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B&Q's Gold medal
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Celebrating B&Q's
Gold medal -
Celebrating B&Q's
Gold medal -
Celebrating B&Q's
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The tower
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The tower
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The tower
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Chelsea Flower Show
artistic impression -
Chelsea Flower Show
artistic impression -
Chelsea Flower Show
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Chelsea Flower Show
public viewing plans -
The green wall
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The green wall
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The B&Q Garden
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The B&Q Garden
under construction -
The B&Q Garden
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The B&Q Garden
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The B&Q Garden
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Planting on Friday
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The site team
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Tower being prepared
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Triangle site prior
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Excavation commenced
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Excavation commenced
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Planting on Friday
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Planting on Friday
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Planting on Friday
It's a bugs life
Challock Youth Club and Time Youth Club in Ashford Kent, part of the charity Kent Youth (which is part of UK Youth, our official charity partner), have both been busy making insect hotels for The B&Q Garden. The forty insect hotels created by the kids will play an important role at attracting wildlife to the garden and will be situated on the eco-wall along with tools, bird boxes, bat boxes, rainwater harvesting and storage, a beehive and a wormery.
See how the insect hotels were made and view a copy of the press release here. 