I was working at the Grand Designs show in Birmingham last week and had the chance to have a little look at their future gardens section. I was not that impressed – but it can’t be that easy to create a small garden in 2-3 days.

Here were the small garden installations…

Quite a spherical theme going on here – It was a simple idea and worked quite well.

This one was quite a beach/coastal garden theme and obviously consisted of quite a few donations from the shows exhibitors as the driftwood sculptures were abundant at this show.

This one was the vegetable garden – it wasn’t particularly well laid out – but again was obviously a number of donated items laid out on a woodchip floor area.

Also at the show – there was this spherical summerhouse that rotates to face the sun – quite a high-tech monster really! Available at John Lewis – prices range from £6k to £15k