The water features in the gardens range from a towering waterfall to formal and meandering rills, and from naturalistic streams to still pools. There is even a water wheel \u2013 and a swim spa.<\/p>\n
We round up some of the water features that caught our eye.<\/p>\n
Waterfalls<\/h2>\n ![\"""\"]( "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> MEDITE SMARTPLY Building the Future. Designed by Sarah Eberle. Sponsored by MEDITE SMARTPLY. Show Garden. RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nSarah Eberle\u2019s Medite Smartply garden is truly spectacular \u2013 a waterfall cascades over a huge central structure, inspired by natural rock strata, into a pool below. Lily Gomm<\/a>\u2018s Swiss Sanctuary has a more modest water feature that falls gently into a central pond, evoking Switzerland\u2019s clear water lakes. Andy Sturgeon\u2019s The Mind Garden features water gently pouring from ceramic spouts into tranquil pools.<\/p>\nRills<\/h2>\n ![\"""\"]( "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> The Boodles Travel Garden. Designed by Thomas Hoblyn. Sponsored by Boodles. Sanctuary Garden. RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nThe Perennial with Love garden features a classic and traditional rill, flanked by tabletop hawthorns, while the Morris & Co. garden is home to a series of beautiful water channels, their metalwork reflecting one of William Morris\u2019s most iconic designs, Willow Boughs. Meanwhile Thomas Hoblyn\u2019s Boodles Travel Garden has a shallow, ridged rill that meanders gently through the garden.<\/p>\n
Naturalistic streams and pools<\/h2>\n ![\"""\"]( "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> A Garden Sanctuary designed by Tony Woods. Sponsored by Hamptons and Koto Design at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022<\/span><\/figcaption> \u00a9 RHS\/ Sarah Cuttle<\/i><\/span><\/div>\nNaturalistic planting is big this year, and this is reflected in the use of water. The Best in Show<\/a> garden, A Rewilding Britain Landscape, features a gently flowing brook that flows beneath a glade of hawthorn, hazel and field maple and through a stone wall and into a pool dammed by beavers. Rivulets of water then trickle through the dam into a riparian meadow.<\/p>\nIn Tony Wood\u2019s imagined suburban back garden, the journey through the garden is slowed by stepping over giant stones and a trickling stream. The minimalist cabin has huge windows that look out on to a naturalistic pool.<\/p>\n
Still pools<\/h2>\n ![\"""\"]( "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\nIn A Mediterranean Reflection, a simple carved granite pool encourages curiosity and conversation, and brings some cool to the heat of the Mediterranean garden.<\/p>\n
The St Mungo\u2019s Putting Down Roots garden has a series of colourful pools in brightly coloured planters, planted with aquatic plants and safely covered with metalwork to prevent anyone falling in.<\/p>\n
A water feature window<\/h2>\n ![\"""\"]( "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> Connected, by EXANTE, designed by Taina Suonio at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022<\/span><\/figcaption> \u00a9 RHS\/ Sarah Cuttle<\/i><\/span><\/div>\nConnected, by EXANTE, has a larger than life oak tree stump building at its centre. It features an innovative water feature window at the back, which water gently trickles down. It is framed by the green foliage beyond.<\/p>\n
Containers<\/h2>\n ![\"""\"]( "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> The fish pond in the Cirrus garden<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nIf these large-scale water features are proving a tad unrelatable, there were also some lovely container water features that caught our eye. The Cirrus Garden, modelled on an 18th floor balcony, features a fish pond, containing fish hatched from eggs especially for the show. The Wild Kitchen Garden featured vintage containers filled with edible aquatic plants. Meanwhile in The Enchanted Rain Garden, a rain collection barrel allows the storage and reuse of valuable rain water \u2013 crucial in our increasingly warm summers characterised by intermittent heavy downpours.<\/p>\n
Water wheel<\/h2>\n ![\"""\"]( "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> Circle of Life designed by Yoshihiro Tamura at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022<\/span><\/figcaption> \u00a9 RHS\/ Sarah Cuttle<\/i><\/span><\/div>\nIn the Circle of Life garden, water, an essential element, is harnessed by a Japanese wooden water wheel, the oldest method of harnessing energy. Its turning represents the passing of time.<\/p>\n
Swim spa<\/h2>\n ![\"""\"]( "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> Out of the Shadows, designed by Kate Gould at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022<\/span><\/figcaption> \u00a9 RHS\/ Sarah Cuttle<\/i><\/span><\/div>\nKate Gould\u2019s Out of the Shadows garden<\/a> was a contemporary spa garden, complete with climbing bars, a yoga and meditation space \u2013 and a swim spa. It was road tested by the team who built the garden on one of the hottest days of the year, as well as by paralympian Jessica-Jane Applegate.<\/p>\nHead to our Chelsea Flower Show hub to read our extensive coverage on the show this year<\/a>.<\/h3><\/body><\/html>\n
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Sarah Eberle\u2019s Medite Smartply garden is truly spectacular \u2013 a waterfall cascades over a huge central structure, inspired by natural rock strata, into a pool below. Lily Gomm<\/a>\u2018s Swiss Sanctuary has a more modest water feature that falls gently into a central pond, evoking Switzerland\u2019s clear water lakes. Andy Sturgeon\u2019s The Mind Garden features water gently pouring from ceramic spouts into tranquil pools.<\/p>\n The Perennial with Love garden features a classic and traditional rill, flanked by tabletop hawthorns, while the Morris & Co. garden is home to a series of beautiful water channels, their metalwork reflecting one of William Morris\u2019s most iconic designs, Willow Boughs. Meanwhile Thomas Hoblyn\u2019s Boodles Travel Garden has a shallow, ridged rill that meanders gently through the garden.<\/p>\n Naturalistic planting is big this year, and this is reflected in the use of water. The Best in Show<\/a> garden, A Rewilding Britain Landscape, features a gently flowing brook that flows beneath a glade of hawthorn, hazel and field maple and through a stone wall and into a pool dammed by beavers. Rivulets of water then trickle through the dam into a riparian meadow.<\/p>\n In Tony Wood\u2019s imagined suburban back garden, the journey through the garden is slowed by stepping over giant stones and a trickling stream. The minimalist cabin has huge windows that look out on to a naturalistic pool.<\/p>\n In A Mediterranean Reflection, a simple carved granite pool encourages curiosity and conversation, and brings some cool to the heat of the Mediterranean garden.<\/p>\n The St Mungo\u2019s Putting Down Roots garden has a series of colourful pools in brightly coloured planters, planted with aquatic plants and safely covered with metalwork to prevent anyone falling in.<\/p>\n Connected, by EXANTE, has a larger than life oak tree stump building at its centre. It features an innovative water feature window at the back, which water gently trickles down. It is framed by the green foliage beyond.<\/p>\n If these large-scale water features are proving a tad unrelatable, there were also some lovely container water features that caught our eye. The Cirrus Garden, modelled on an 18th floor balcony, features a fish pond, containing fish hatched from eggs especially for the show. The Wild Kitchen Garden featured vintage containers filled with edible aquatic plants. Meanwhile in The Enchanted Rain Garden, a rain collection barrel allows the storage and reuse of valuable rain water \u2013 crucial in our increasingly warm summers characterised by intermittent heavy downpours.<\/p>\n In the Circle of Life garden, water, an essential element, is harnessed by a Japanese wooden water wheel, the oldest method of harnessing energy. Its turning represents the passing of time.<\/p>\n Kate Gould\u2019s Out of the Shadows garden<\/a> was a contemporary spa garden, complete with climbing bars, a yoga and meditation space \u2013 and a swim spa. It was road tested by the team who built the garden on one of the hottest days of the year, as well as by paralympian Jessica-Jane Applegate.<\/p>\n By Veronica Peerless Published: Thursday, 26 May 2022 at 12:00 am It has been a case of water, water, everywhere at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022 \u2013 in many of the show gardens but also in terms of the weather. Visitors have been caught in some torrential downpours, and the BBC has been forced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":11390,"template":"","categories":[1,17],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"5"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/05\/water-features-at-the-rhs-chelsea-flower-show-2022.jpg",940,628,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/05\/water-features-at-the-rhs-chelsea-flower-show-2022-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/05\/water-features-at-the-rhs-chelsea-flower-show-2022-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/05\/water-features-at-the-rhs-chelsea-flower-show-2022-768x513.jpg",768,513,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/05\/water-features-at-the-rhs-chelsea-flower-show-2022.jpg",800,534,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/05\/water-features-at-the-rhs-chelsea-flower-show-2022.jpg",940,628,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/05\/water-features-at-the-rhs-chelsea-flower-show-2022.jpg",940,628,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Veronica Peerless Published: Thursday, 26 May 2022 at 12:00 am It has been a case of water, water, everywhere at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022 \u2013 in many of the show gardens but also in terms of the weather. Visitors have been caught in some torrential downpours, and the BBC has been forced…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/11389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Rills<\/h2>\n
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Naturalistic streams and pools<\/h2>\n
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Still pools<\/h2>\n
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\nA water feature window<\/h2>\n
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Containers<\/h2>\n
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Water wheel<\/h2>\n
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Swim spa<\/h2>\n
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Head to our Chelsea Flower Show hub to read our extensive coverage on the show this year<\/a>.<\/h3><\/body><\/html>\n
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