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Chelsea Flower Show garden relocated to city site

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Jake Zuckerman,BBC News
News imageThe photograph is taken from beneath a patch of daisies in the foreground, the focal point being a garden structure at the back that is a form of rustic posh shed, with a pitched roof.
News imageA circular piece of artwork is in a structure in the centre of the garden. It is made out of steel and is cut out around the silhouettes of birds.
Designer Nicola Oakey received a silver gilt medal at the Chelsea Flower Show for highlighting the plight of the UK songbird in her show garden called the Songbird Survival Garden. The design was inspired by the movement and perspective of a bird, foraging for food and water while moving between points of safety and shelter.
At the centre of the garden is the Birdhouse Den, made from reclaimed materials. It includes six hand-crafted metalwork motifs of at-risk UK songbirds.

A Chelsea Flower Show garden has been relocated to a community centre in Hull.

The Songbird Survival Garden won a silver gilt medal at the show and has been reconstructed with the help of volunteers at the Neighbourhood Network's centre on Goodhart Road, Bransholme.

The garden is part of a wider project at the site to overhaul the existing outdoor space for the local community.

Lucy Carew, manager of the Neighbourhood Network said she hoped the project would "put Bransholme on the map".

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