Scuba-diving hare and curious crab keep Irish entrant smiling at Chelsea Flower Show

Sculptor Donnacha Cahill's artistic brief was to 'make the planting a bit mad', he tells Eve Kelliher

Sculptor Donnacha Cahill at RHS Chelsea Flower Show this week.

A crab peering through binoculars, a scuba-diving hare, goats whose regal bearing would rival King Puck, and carnivorous plants were four focal points of one garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show this week.

But they were not the only aspect of the display attracting attention says their originator, Galway sculptor Donnacha Cahill. “I am here in the lashing rain with everybody imitating my accent, it gets old fairly quickly,” he jokingly confides.