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The Foreign & Colonial Investments' Garden by Thomas Hoblyn
Wetland gardens are rarely seen at Chelsea, but here Tom Hoblyn has taken as his inspiration the bogs of both East Anglia and North Carolina in a garden celebrating one of the world's most fragile habitats.
From a pool surrounded by trees rises a sloping bog garden featuring a mix of British and North Carolina native plants, many of which are rare and endangered. Bog oak, swamp cypress and pitcher plants are all highly specialised plants, here intermixed with successful British species such as spikerush and common rush. Collectively they highlight vulnerability versus adaptation in the plant world.
A stylised wave form undulates through the garden, reflecting the environmental and economic instability of a tumultuous world. Watching over this world is a female sculpture, representing idealised humanity poised to cope with and adapt to the waves of change. Much of the garden is made of recycled materials, with sheep's wool furniture and both the wave form and boardwalk being made from a giant redwood that fell in a storm. After the show, the entire garden will be reconstructed within a 12-acre garden in Suffolk.
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