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The Oceânico Garden
The Oceânico Garden
Carol Klein: This year Chelsea Flower Show veterans, Terence Conran and Diarmuid Gavin have teamed up to create a new garden which seems to have something for everyone, no matter what age. It’s got a forest of lollipop trees, huge metal daisies and, apparently, really great coffee. I’ll let Diarmuid explain.
Diarmuid Gavin: It’s been designed with Sir Terence Conran so it has his very simple good design, can improve your life ethos behind it and the whole idea of outdoor living of food and drink in a very simple pavilion. And it also frames the view into the garden beyond which is a shady garden. We have nine Prunus laurocerasus, strip stems and beautiful under planting of ferns and hellebores and some colour like Bleeding Heart dicentras in. I like the daisies, the shadows they give and the bit of protection and cover they create are very nice. And the planting at the very back is also nice because you have these beautiful laurocerasus that create incredible shade on a hot day with shafts of sunlight coming through it. So I think that daisies and the very end of the garden would be my favourite.