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Leeds City Council targets Chelsea Flower Show success UPDATED
The Leeds-Liverpool canal is the inspiration behind this year's Leeds council entry for the Chelsea Flower Show.
Details of the city's most ambitious show garden yet were due to be today unveiled at the council's Red Hall nursery in Shadwell.
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Hesco Bastion, the company founded by self-made Leeds multi-millionaire Jimmy Heselden, is again sponsoring the garden.
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Centrepiece of the entry is a lock gate which will allow water to run through it and into the canal. This is flanked by woodland, wetland and a floral meadow sections.
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The 127-mile Leeds-Liverpool is the longest canal in northern England. It was built over 46 years, starting in 1765.
It will be on show at Chelsea from May 25-29.
Leeds has enjoyed great success at Chelsea in recent years, with all seven previous gardens dating back to the first in 1997 earning bronze or silver category awards.
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