HORATIO'S Garden will benefit from beech hedging transplanted from an award winning show garden at the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show.

Cleve West, the designer of the garden dedicated to the memory of Horatio Chapple, the Bishopstone teenager killed by a polar bear last year, has won a gold and the highest accolade of best in show for his stunning topiary garden sponsored by Brewin Dolphin.

After the prestigious flower show comes to an end, the beech hedging will be brought to the rehabilitation garden being built for patients at the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Unit at Salisbury District Hospital.

Visitors to the flower show have also been admiring another memorial garden dedicated to a teenager from the Salisbury area.

George Smith was a horticultural student at Sparsholt College near Winchester and was on the design and construction team for the college's show garden when he passed away suddenly in January due to heart problems.

Chris Bird, lecturer in horticulture, explained that the show display had been developed in memory of George and the shed incorporated into the garden had been called George’s Shed.

Sparsholt College was voted best exhibit in the environment section of the great pavilion at the show.

George’s family has founded the charity Focus In On Life (focusinonlife.org.uk) to help young people with an interest in conservation, sustainable living, horticulture, photography and self-expression.