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Stephen Anderton's guide to the Chelsea Flower Show 2008

It’s the show that makes any gardener feel like a child in a sweet shop. Here are some highlights

Front garden paradises being paved for parking

As the Chelsea Flower Show opens, the Royal Horticultural Society fights to prevent the loss of even the littlest green space

Survival tools for Chelsea

Janes Owen gives some tips on how to survive this year's Chelsea Flower Show

Gardening: get the Chelsea Flower Show look on the cheap

Top ten tips for a show garden at home

Gardening: Water is the theme at this year's Chelsea Flower Show

Perhaps reflecting last summer's downpours, the Show will feature a flood of fountains, springs, ponds and pools

Gardens: ten things you need to know about the Chelsea Flower Show

Rachel de Thame: Chelsea Flower Show 2008 - it’s crunch time

The season-defining moment arrives for Rachel de Thame: no, not the football, her flower-show garden

Chelsea Flower Show in protest over equipment shortage for troops

The Chelsea flower show is to show an overtly political art installation attacking the shortage of equipment for British troops

Here comes the glass sun – garden honours Beatle

The Chelsea flower show is to feature a garden dedicated to George Harrison, the late Beatle, with psychedelic coloured flowers

It's the greatest show on earth

In the gardening world, nothing compares to Chelsea – and, this year, Rachel de Thame is fulfilling her ambition to create a design

Chelsea Flower Show 2007 winners

Chelsea Flower Show 2007 

Suffolk-based sculptor Brian Alabaster has come first place in The Lawn Society's Best Turf award in this year's Chelsea Flower Show. Brian beat off stiff competition from Fortnum and Mason for his garden, which showcases his life-size bronze figures.

Turf wars at Chelsea show over garden lawns

Advocates of beautiful lawns have infiltrated the Chelsea Flower Show to hand out their own awards for perfect turf

Colourful favourites face public vote

A Cancer Research UK garaden, with a 100ft sculpture, was voted among the public’s favourites at the Chelsea Flower Show

It's a jungle out there

Making her Chelsea debut and inspired by a classic children's story, designer Tiggy Salt explains why the best family gardens should be places Where the Wild Things Are...

Iggy, flower child of the Chelsea show

Iggy Pop, the celebrated forerunner of punk rock, is one of the inspirations for this year’s Chelsea Flower Show

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Chelsea's drought gardens impress, despite the unremitting downpour

This year is about recycling old ideas rather than revolutionising, but good ideas bear repeating

It's not all rosy for garden gold medallist

A garden that won a gold medal at the Chelsea Flower Show is at the centre of a legal action

Dark beauty

New varieties of ‘black’ and double hyacinths are making the bloom fashionable again

The cement garden

Bend it, shape it, any way you want it: concrete is casting off its dull image and showing Chelsea just what it can do

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Charming view of Blighty takes top prize

An evocative echo of an English country pub garden has won the Chelsea Flower Show top award

Tall Story

Whether as stylish natural fencing or visual punctuation mark, bamboos are making a comeback

How green does your roof grow?

Green roofs once saved money, not the planet. But grass rooftops are now heading into the mainstream

New blooms unveiled at Chelsea Flower Show

Plant launches include a "full, rounded and pink" rose known as Alan Titchmarsh

Chelsea Flower Show 2004  

Name of the rose

Our new gardening columnist Rachel de Thame guides you through the jungle of 5,000 plants launched this year, and picks some of her favourites

Far-out pavilions

Our correspondent discovers a conservatory of the future

Gardening: Green light for recycling

Using materials in a new form is both fashionable and good for the environment, as shown at the big horticultural festivals, reports Caroline Donald

Old Albrecht's fancy

Mark Griffiths on the charms of a flower immortalised by Dürer

Roses, Irises and Pinks at Chelsea

A sneak preview of some potential show-stealers at this year's Chelsea Flower Show

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Other debutantes at Chelsea

Check out some of the new faces at this year's Chelsea Flower Show

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Chelsea 2007

Chelsea Flower Show 2007

Winners from the Chelsea Garden Show 2007

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Audio slideshow

Stephen Anderton on his favourite gardens at Chelsea Flower Show 2007

RHUBARB

Video: Vegging Out

Find out what the experts made of Alice Miles' rhubarb on Times Online TV

JUDGEMENT DAY

Video: Ann Treneman

Times sketch writer lets Chelsea Flower Show judges, Michael Balston and Jill Billington, score her "real" garden...

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