A garden design for a prestigious flower show has gone over the bang thanks to a Keighley college.

The Airedale FabLab created a giant pistol to featuring a design at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.

The FabLab team, based at the Keighley Campus of Leeds City College, gave specialist support to garden designer Simon Webster.

Mr Webster, from TV show Garden Heroes, wanted to create a 1.8-metre-high smoking gun with flowers coming out of the end.

The eye-catching presentation, part of the show’s Conceptual Gardens and entitled ‘Ready… Aim… Flower!’, went on to feature on theBBC.

Simon approached the FabLab to help manufacture the components for the gun on a large CNC router, a computer-controlled cutting machine.

The concept of Simon’s garden is that nature soon recovers, even in former war zones. The garden features which is sat above a path that starts off badly damaged, but that gradually improves and leads to a tranquil seating area surrounded by flowers.

Chris Stott, the Leeds City College business operations and sales manager, said: “We work with small and medium-sized businesses to provide low-cost machining and help with prototyping for project such as this… although this is one of our more unusual requests!”