By Colin Fernandez
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He upset the purists with his ‘flying’ garden based on Avatar last year.
But Diarmuid Gavin has no intention of coming back to earth with his offering for this year’s Chelsea Flower Show.
The celebrity gardener has designed a seven-storey ‘skyscraper’ made of scaffolding poles topped off with a rusty car and a clump of nettles.
He said the 80ft-high garden was inspired by the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Gardening expert â€" Matt Appleby of Horticulture Week â€" said: ‘It’s a towering garden for a man with a towering ego.’
The garden will feature more than 3,000 plants ranging from trees to daisies â€" topped off with an old Fiat 500 the Irishman found ‘in a bog’.
Other bizarre items will include an American-style silver bullet caravan on the third floor, and a Victorian greenhouse on the fourth.
In the centre will be a lift manned by a bellboy dressed in the uniform of a 1920s New York hotel.
The Royal Horticultural Society show, which opens on May 22, has in the past tended to favour gardens spread on the horizontal plane, rather than on the vertical.
'Instead of having just one patch of garden, I thought why not have seven gardens one on top of each other,' Diarmuid Gavin says
But former Gardener’s World presenter Gavin said yesterday: ‘I’ve always loved the notion of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, why it was built and how it was built.
‘I love gardening in unexpected places and I think it follows from the idea of gardening in roof situations, opening up views to the city.
‘I’m also concerned about the lack of space for people to garden or care for the environment at a time when there is pressure for more and more housing on our crowded island.
‘So instead of having just one patch of garden, I thought why not have seven gardens one on top of each other.’
The carcass of a Fiat 500, found dumped in a bog in the middle of Ireland, will form part of the creation
The fifth floor will feature a shower and a bath, complete with solar powered hot water.
This is because Gavin predicts that gardeners in the future will be washing in the fresh air â€" their privacy ensured by a Chinese windmill palm and a cabbage tree.
The same floor will also have a slide, although it is yet to be decided whether visitors will be allowed to go up to the higher floors.
The sixth floor will be a place to relax amid dwarf pines and a fragrant carpet of thyme and sage.
The garden will be the highest ever created at the show and, according to Gavin, the biggest.
It will be located on the Thames side of the gardens, and will be visible from the road.
Gavin’s ‘Irish Sky Garden’ won a gold medal at Chelsea last year.
It featured a bright pink pod that was winched 82ft off the ground, allowing spectacular views across London.
However, it was branded a gimmi ck because only VIPs were allowed into the pod.
Critics said designs should be for everyone to experience.
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Thought that this was supposed to be a flower show not a rubbish tip.
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How about waiting until it is completed, then post an article about it. It takes more than an idea than to impress reader.
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No, No, No Diarmuid! We have had enough of all the damn illuminati symbolism of 2012! So please don’t do it! The illuminati are not something to be celebrated!
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Masonic and in 2012 as well, scary stuff.
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They should have one in trafalgar square instead of a stupid rocking horse.
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