Lock gates for Chelsea Flower Show

Published: Thursday, 21 March 2019

A PAIR of lock gates is being used as a feature at London's Chelsea Flower Show.

The old gates, from a lock on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal will be transported to the show and create the centre piece of a garden, Alan Tilbury reports.

Yorkshire gardener

The display is being created by the Yorkshire garden designer Mark Gregory.

He tells it is 'Inspired by Yorkshire’s industrial heritage and stunning natural environment', the garden’s main feature is a canal, with the authentic lock gates, which flows next to a wild perennial meadow and a lock keeper’s lodge with a cultivated garden.

Since 1913

The Chelsea Flower Show has been held in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, every year since 1913, apart from gaps during the two World Wars. Once Britain's largest flower show (it has now been overtaken by RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show), it is still the most prestigious