Monday, 8 June 2009

Chelseas' plastic garden

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There was a bit of a scandal at the Chelsea Flower Show this year ! Someone had dared to present a garden with not a single sign of organic growth in the whole lot. Judges feathers were ruffled, other exhibitors protested, but the general public seamed quite fascinated.

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The garden was created as part of a documentary series about the history of toys presented by James May . It was in fact entirely modeled from Plasticine, and turned out to be a massive group effort, with contributors including, school children, Chelsea pensioners, housewives, and of course the odd professional model maker like those from Wallace and Gromit creators and Teletubbies design team.

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The garden was so well made and all its' details so fascinating that it was of course a wild success, and put a smile on all but the staunchest of Chelsea's' fuddy duddy faces.

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