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Water Gardens
Dorset Water Lily Company
Hot Springs
Designer:
Claudia de Yong
Sponsor: Dorset Water Lily Company supported by Chessington Garden Centre
Contractor: Dorset Water Lily Company
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Hot Springs has been designed and built to illustrate, with our increasingly warm climate, how many semi-tropical and exotic plants can now be grown outdoors in the UK. The greater proportion of plants and trees in this garden originated in the southern hemisphere, brought back to Europe by the explorers, botanists and collectors who ventured to the New World. Looking across a lushly planted pond with its soothing, bubbling water and gentle drifting stream, the onlooker is invited to walk across a rustic bridge to a hideaway on stilts, standing in water. Using plants such as lotus, ferns, cannas, bananas and tree ferns, this exotic garden takes on a semi-tropical atmosphere.
The RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park (19-23 July)
Dorset Water Lily Company is also featuring at the RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park in the back-to-back garden category with a design entitled The Bijou Water Garden.