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The
West Country was well represented at this year's Chelsea flower
show but it was a garden by HMP Leyhill Open Prison in Gloucestershire
that won a gold award.
The
garden is called No Time to Stand and Stare and it took its inspiration
from the poem by William Henry Davies.
The
garden was designed by staff and inmates of the prison who also
helped to construct the garden.
A spokesman
said: "This is a perfect natural scene, with a boathouse, pond and
wild flower planting, that a prisoner might imagine when locked
in a cell."
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Leyhill have entered a garden in the show six times |
"Water
plants cluster around the banks of the pond with bulrushes, water
mint, yellow flag irises, meadow-sweet and water forget-me-nots."
The
backdrop to the garden is is woodland with common trees such as
ash, birch, sycamore and willow underplanted with bluebells, foxgloves,
bracken, brambles and ivy.
HMP
Leyhill has exhibited at Chelsea six times before and the film Greenfingers,
starring Clive Owen and Helen Mirren, was based on the true story
of Leyhill staging its first garden at the Hampton Court Palace
Flower Show.
The
Chelsea Flower Show runs until Friday, 23 May.
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