Crowds at the Chelsea Flower Show have been queuing up 10-deep to see part of the Daily Telegraph's Silver Gilt award-winning garden - a fountain in which water apparently runs uphill. It is a sight which defies logic, and has become probably the most memorable image of this year's show.
A set of four glass ramps positioned in a square clearly show water travelling up each of them before it pours off the top, only to start again at the bottom of the next ramp.
Inventor James Dyson, he of the bagless vacuum cleaner, has stolen the headlines from the gardeners at this year's Chelsea Flower Show with his "Wrong Garden". Mr Dyson says his inspiration was a drawing by the Dutch artist MC Escher - an optical illusion that shows water going uphill and round and round the four sides of a square perpetually.
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