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In Pictures: Green-finger Kate welcomes Queen to wilderness garden

The duchess designed the woodland space for the annual RHS Chelsea Flower show.

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have given the Queen a guided tour of Kate’s Back To Nature garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.

It was co-created alongside landscape architects Andree Davies and Adam White, and the Royal Horticultural Society.

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Kate explained many of the garden’s features to her husband’s grandmother (Geoff Pugh/Daily Telegraph/PA)
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The Queen attends the Chelsea Flower Show in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea every year (Geoff Pugh/Daily Telegraph/PA)
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William joked to his grandmother that he had ‘smartened up out of his ‘green clothes’ (Geoff Pugh/Daily Telegraph/PA)

Earlier in the day, Kate had played with schoolchildren in the woodland-themed garden.

The hands-on duchess, dressed casually in a white blouse, camel-coloured culottes and white trainers, climbed up a wooden ladder into the garden’s centre-piece – a high platform tree house, and sat on a tree stump during her visit.

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The Duchess of Cambridge with Andree Davies (centre) and Adam White (Yui Mok/PA)
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Kate said it was ‘really important’ children start to understand nature (Yui Mok/PA)
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Kate chats to local school pupils (Yui Mok/PA)
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Meeting Sue Biggs, director general of the Royal Horticultural Society (Yui Mok/PA)
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Elsewhere at the Chelsea Flower Show, D-Day and Operation Market Garden veteran Joe Cattini attended the opening of the D-Day 75 Garden (Yui Mok/PA)
Visitors enjoy the flora on display
Visitors enjoy the flora on display (Yui Mok/PA)
Dianne Buswell and Joe Sugg
Dianne Buswell and Joe Sugg relax at the show (Yui Mok/PA)
Dame Judi Dench at the Chelsea Flower Show
Dame Judi Dench at the Chelsea Flower Show (Yui Mok/PA)
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The David Austin Roses stand (Yui Mok/PA)
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The National Chrysanthemum Society’s children’s TV-themed garden (Yui Mok/PA)
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