Sandy Felton takes a look at some of this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show highlights.

There is a lovely relaxed feel to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year which seems to have returned to its 'roots' of English urban gardening while at the same time still being able to lure us with the contemporary and the exotic.

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Another great garden from designer Cleve West has once again won Best in Show and a Gold Medal at the 2012 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. (pictured left)

His delightful garden for sponsors Brewin Dolphin demonstrates the continuing popularity of topiary but as always with Cleve West there was just a twist of the contemporary to produce a 'formal and timeless garden, contemporary yet traditional.'

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Hillier has chosen the spectacular Olympic sport of fencing as its theme for their RHS Chelsea 2012 garden. Hillier’s garden is always one of the highlights at Chelsea and 2012 will be no exception. Their exhibit ‘Duel and the Crown’, sponsored by Beazley British Fencing, will see the sport of fencing return to the grounds of the Royal Chelsea Hospital for the first time since 1939 and will be a tribute to HM the Queen, the Patron of British Fencing, in her Diamond Jubilee Year.

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