Get the Chelsea look
The RHS Advisory team gives advice on recreating some of the Chelsea looks at home in your garden.
Grow tree ferns
The Easigrass Garden features a selection of ferns shimmering beneath a curtain of raindrops. Growing under a canopy in shade, they have the perfect environment for lush, beautiful growth and are surprisingly easy for gardeners to grow at home.
More advice on growing tree ferns.
Grow rhubarb
This is one of the easiest vegetables (officially it is a vegetable, even though most of us eat it as dessert) to grow. On the Welcome to Yorkshire's Rhubarb Crumble & Custard Garden, you can see a whole bed of it, but one or two plants is usually enough to feed a family.
More advice on growing rhubarb.
Plants for pergolas
Roses entwined in a pergola provide height and elegance in the Christian before Dior Garden. Not only does the pergola give structure, but also provides a shady canopy for the seating area beneath - an easy and effective idea to copy at home.
More advice on pergolas
Formal hedging
Clipped box cubes feature in The Cancer Research UK Garden to great effect. Cut into a chequerboard pattern of 'steps' intermingled with blue iris and white paeonies, they sit alongside containers of box domes: simple, effective and easily recreated in your garden.
More advice on formal hedging
Grow aquatic plants
Set around a cooling plunge pool, a variety of plants including aquatics set the scene in The Children's Society Garden, designed as a modern urban family retreat. The aquatics separate the stepping stones around the naturally filtered pool, softening the edges.
More on aquatic planting
Plants for a gravel garden
If you thought gardens planted in gravel often looked sparse, The Daily Telegraph Garden is one not to miss. Exotic plants mingle with familiar English favourites, topped with a triangle of pines - this dry gravel garden has great appeal: the secret is in choosing the right plants.
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Get the Mediterranean look
Not just a garden but a tiny piece of France has been re-created in the L'Occitane Garden. Channels of drought-resistant plants including lavender and herbs including borage & rosemary grow alongside tiny gravel pathways leading up a slope to a rocky backdrop.
More on Mediterranean planting
Conifer care
Conifers of all shapes and sizes show off the versality of these plants in The Pine and Conifer Enthusiast Garden. The garden has a growing area plus display area where conifers are planted alongside ornamental grasses, creating interesting shapes and an easycare garden.
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Raised beds
The varied planting in raised beds in The Unexpected Gardener's exhibit shows just how multi-finctional raised beds can be. Change from flowers to veg to clipped topiary whenever the whim takes you - this is one of the most flexible types of garden you can have.
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Grow bananas
Jungle-style planting with a backdrop of banana trees can be seen in the Trailfinders Australian Garden presented by Fleming's. The massive trees are set around a canopy with pool beneath, helping to provide shade. If you're looking for lush planting schemes, consider growing a banana tree.
More on banana care