Diarmuid Gavin to celebrate British eccentricity with garden at Chelsea Flower Show

Horticultural showman Diarmuid Gavin is creating a wacky Chelsea Flower Show garden for Harrods that celebrates British eccentrics and their gadgets.

At first glance, the award-winning designer’s garden is deceptively traditional and genteel, boasting a beautiful octagonal folly and sunken Italianate pond.

But every 15 minutes, like clockwork, the maverick Irishman’s tranquil garden will be transformed into a madcap, mechanical, flight of fancy with whole flowerbeds rising from the ground.