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AT the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year, Charlotte Harris and Hugo Bugg took home not only a gold medal for their thoughtful design for the Horatio’s Garden charity, but also won the top award of Best in Show.

The garden was a distillation of one that the team is designing for patients of The Princess Royal Spinal Injuries Centre in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, incorporating many of the features seen in SW3, which will open next year. The Chelsea judges were given the opportunity to move through the lush luxuriant planting in a wheelchair, following

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