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摘要

Some years ago, I was commissioned to design and build a garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show for one of the major "sheds", with a further brief to set up a completed construction of a "complete pond kit" — comprising liner, pump, hose and instruction video — at a show at Woburn Abbey by 9am on the following day.Working with their sales director, we could not leave the Chelsea site until midnight and I was unable to complete the build by the time the event was opened to the public — a sculpted hand-dug hole in the ground being the only inkling of the feature. I decided to leave the spoil by the excavation and lay the (boxed) ingredients around the site, much as anyone attempting to fit a garden pond would have done.