Easter Garden installed at Salisbury Cathedral by award winning designer
It's on the West side of the building until the middle of May
This year's Easter Garden has been installed at Salisbury Cathedral.
Created by award-winning garden designer Andy McIndoe and features a tomb made of chicksgrove limestone among Mediterranean plants with three crosses on the Cathedral wall.
The garden, situated by the visitors entrance to the Cathedral, will be on show until Pentecost on 19th May.
Greatest Hits Radio spoke to Clerk of Works Gary Price about the construction of the tomb, which has been created out of the same stone used to restore the Cathedral.
"I was tasked by our Dean to come up with a cave design loosely based around the Easter theme. So I went down to the quarry, I chose about 13-14 tonnes of stone, probably about 8 or 10 blocks.
"We cut them, shape them, whittled them down, made the disc at the front round and The Cave currently weighs about 8 tonne."
Designer Andy McIndoe the design was aimed at conjuring the image of the Holy Land.
"Obviously we have to use a certain amount of poetic licence, this is England, it's March and it's also got to last for long enough," he said.
"We've used plants that you would find in a Mediterranean landscape, certainly some that you would have found there in the time of Christ, the olive things like the cypresses sempervirens, which is the Cypress of the ancient, and the little native chamaerops, which is a dwarf palm. The only one really that's found in Europe and the Middle East."
Andy also said he hopes people find the garden calming as they remember the story of Easter when visiting the Cathedral, saying the garden's been created to reflect the mood rather than the season.
"[It's} a little more in keeping with the mood rather than the traditional pretty English Easter garden with daffodils and blossom and so on.
"But I think here what we want to do, is to create something that's in keeping with the cathedral, of course, this stone is the same stone as the cathedral and we want the whole thing really to sit well in this location."
Andy told us that he had to balance the scene with accuracy and appeal.
"I don't want it to be too colourful, but I also want it to be appealing and if I showed this really as the sort of landscape that would have surrounded this at the time of Christ, I think people would find it really rather dull and uninteresting.
"So you have to have enough there to create the interest and attention without it being loud."