WHO'S DOING WHAT AT CHELSEA

Diarmuid Gavin's City Garden (Site MA12) at this year's Chelsea Flower Show features a curved glass wall, 50 feet long, made from glass bricks. The wall is underplanted with lush foliage plants such as hostas and ferns. From a circular, mosaic-tiled pool, a fountain bounces jets of water against the glass wall.

Environmental Awareness (Site RGB7) is the theme of the garden designed by Julie Toll who has won four gold medals in the last six years. Her sponsor is Pro Carton, a European association of board and carton manufacturers and Ms Toll's garden reflects their interests. It is a Scandinavian-style garden, designed to show regeneration of forest areas after felling. Don't look here for herbaceous borders.

There will be plenty of those in the Harpers/Cartier Garden (Site MA17) which draws heavily on the Vita Sackville-West tradition in English gardens. A grassed vista is framed by herbaceous borders with a nuttery alongside, carpeted by wild flowers.

Dan Pearson is aiming at a younger, more urban gardener with his Roof Garden for the Nineties (Site MA15). There is a wooden deck for evening supper parties, and a walkway punctuated by domed skylights. Silver foliage plants and ornamental grasses dominate the planting, which is designed to be tolerant of drought.

Stephen Woodhams, the London florist who won a gold medal last year for his super-chic recreation of the kind of decaying kitchen garden that is all too much in evidence here in Dorset, is indulging in another exercise in nostalgia for You magazine (Site MA10). It's a different kitchen garden, this time viewed as it were from inside a conservatory. There are willow- weave panels set between steel posts, timber lattice columns and a galvanised steel strawberry cage. Planting is mostly blue and orange with fruit and vegetables set between topiary made from rosemary and hornbeam.

Anna Pavord