A Kent brewery has paid £12,500 to recreate Julian Dowle's award-winning Chelsea Flower Show garden as a permanent attraction in the grounds of a pub.

The Newent-based show garden expert will supervise the reconstruction of the Chelsea Pensioners' Garden at the New Flying Horse, in Wye, Kent, which is owned by Shepherd Neame brewery.

The work is set to be completed by May.

Alison Bridge, senior designer with the Julian Dowle Partnership, said: "It's fantastic that our design will be a permanent fixture and will have such an after-life."

The garden won a gold medal and best in show at this year's Chelsea Flower Show.

It was created by the Julian Dowle Partnership for the Royal Hospital Chelsea as a nostalgic vision of England as it was at the end of the Second World War.

A main feature was a small thatched pub. Miss Bridge said this would have to be a stronger structure than at the show.

"It will have to last longer than three weeks this time," she said.

The garden design was actually owned by the Chelsea Royal Hospital. Shepherd Neame Brewery supplied pub furniture, the sign and bottles of "Spitfire" ale for the show garden.

Last week, brewery chief executive Jonathan Neame handed over the big cheque for the garden design to Major General Jonathan Hall, the Lieutenant Governor of the Royal Hospital.

The donation will go towards a £35m appeal to rebuild the Royal Hospital, including a new infirmary.

Mr Neame said: "Once the garden of the New Flying Horse is completed next summer, both old soldiers and members of the public will be able to enjoy it for many generations to come."