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Beaver-themed rewilding garden wins Chelsea flower show top prize

Unconventional garden by Lulu Urquhart and Adam Hunt features a dam and sticks pre-gnawed by beavers

A garden with hardly a bloom in sight and inspired by the dramatic transformation of land through the reintroduction of beavers to the UK has won best in show at the Chelsea flower show.

The garden – A Rewilding Britain Landscape by first-time Chelsea designers Lulu Urquhart and Adam Hunt – may lack eye-catching flowers but features a beaver dam, a pool with a lodge behind it, a shabby shed with corrugated iron roof and UK native plants.

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