Caravan Club makes a impressive first appearance at Chelsea Flower Show

The Chelsea Flower Show exhibits the very best garden designs from around the globe every year as well as for 2012 a lovingly-restored nineteen fifties caravan is among the primary points of interest.

To celebrate its 105th anniversary, The Caravan Club has partnered with well-known garden designer Jo Thompson to provide 'A Celebration of Caravanning'.

Your garden is going to be displayed all of this week in Chelsea (May 22nd to 26th) and it is the very first within the good reputation for the show to have a caravan.

Your garden is really a celebration, not only of caravans, but of the things British and originates 'staycations' and traditional hobbies. The goal behind your garden would be to highlight the enjoyment and freedom that the caravan holiday can provide, but additionally to exhibit what else caravans can be used as. Remember caravan accessories can be purchased here at Leisureshopdirect.com

Although on the caravan holiday around the Isle of Wight this past year together with her family, Jo was fascinated through the vintage caravans she spotted and loved a specific one a lot she introduced it home together with her.

The 60-year-old aluminium caravan, that has been named Doris, has become the star attraction of Jo's third Chelsea Flower Show appearance. And fittingly, the caravan may also be honouring its Gemstone Anniversary this season, because it was built-in 1952 - exactly the same year the Full was coronated.

Staycations in Caravans are becoming more popular

A lot of people have become up vacationing within the United kingdom and Jo has attempted to capture the reminiscences individuals have from the simple activities caravanning brings and permit individuals to fully experience again past encounters. Jo and her team started focusing on your garden around the fourth May and until today, she states, they've been "knee deep in dirt", it's been non-stop try to get everything ready for that long awaited show. The look is definitely an understanding of the idyllic realm of classic touring holidays and also the retro caravan is homage to years passed by, it supplies a best example of methods a caravan can be employed in anyone's garden. Maybe it's a playhouse for kids, a workplace, extra accommodation or just area of the garden's design. Jo described: “It’s designed like a real garden and also to show caravans could be multi-use, they are not only for towing." Alongside Doris the caravan is really a beautiful mixture of pink, crimson and cream flowers with Jo's signature naturalistic woodland style which causes it to be feel slightly wild and it is similar to the countryside that caravanners happen to be touring for many years. Geraniums, irises and roses mix with Chinese birches, that provide the otherwise traditional garden a contemporary twist.

A patchwork hammock, dog kennel and stream complete the look and are generally incorporated like a indication of methods a caravan could be a home-from-home.