Diarmuid Gavin and James Dyson - who has designed a garden for the show.

Click here to see Jane O'Brien's report

Diarmuid explained to Jane that every generation has something new to contribute to garden design - and agreed that people now see the garden as an extension of their interior design tastes.

The garden as an "outdoor room" is very fashionable at the moment, but Diarmuid said that at Chelsea, diversity is the strength.

The great thing about Chelsea is you get choice...it caters for all tastes, really contemporary, really cutting edge and more naturalistic"

Well if you want to take an interactive 360 degree tour of some of the gardens, or just find out more about this year's show, click on the link below to go to the Chelsea flower show's website.

The Wrong Garden

Designed by Jim Honey and James Dyson The Wrong Garden is one of the main attractions and aims to challenge ideas about design and form and Jim wanted to create a garden with the wrong colours.

Water in the Wrong Garden

This is a surreal garden with a complete absence of green plants and no hard landscaping.

The plants all have blue/grey or red/purple foliage with mostly pink or white flowers.

All the architecture in the garden is achieved entirely using plants although there are some features such as glass seats, a few doors and gates, and pink gravel pathways, made from marble chippings.

Nothing in the garden is as you would expect and central to the design is a glass water feature, designed by Dyson, in which the water appears to flow uphill.

There is a small avenue of columnar cypress trees, which give a false perspective, leading to a door in the back hedge.

The garden is enclosed by a tall purple beech hedge that provides a backdrop for the rest of the planting in the garden.

The borders are filled with herbaceous perennials and shrubs in shades of grey, blue, purple or red. Other trees include the grey leaf willow, Elaeagnus angustifolia, purple-leafed plum and blue picea.

To ensure the plants raised for the garden were absolutely perfect, Jim Honey and James Dyson had two separate sets grown at two different nurseries.

They admit their ideas are 'a bit wacko' and hope that their unconventional approach will cause some intrigue and spark people into thinking about gardens in a different way.