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Wuhan Water Garden | RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018 Read text
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The Wuhan Water Garden designed by Laurie Chetwood and landscape architect Patrick Collins for the 2018 RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

The show garden represented a journey through the natural landscape of Hubei Province in China and urban environment of Wuhan – City of a Hundred Lakes. It was inspired by Wuhan’s historic ability to manage and control the flood waters of the Yangtze River.

The garden was constructed using a modular grid system pre-fabricated off-site to ensure an efficient build process on Chelsea’s largest show garden plot. This underlying grid permeated throughout the garden and reflected the interaction between the urban and more natural landscapes. A ‘quilt’ of cubic containers suspended the various elements (forest, urban and aquatic planting, water features) along, around, above and below a suspended walkway running the length of the site through the woodland and as a transparent bridge across the central city and lake.

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