A garden which shows the route of next year’s Tour De France through towns and villages in the Bradford district was unveiled at the Chelsea Flower Show yesterday Tourism agency Welcome to Yorkshire is using the opportunity to show off the landscape that the world’s best cyclists will be riding through.

The Grand Depart of the world’s most famous bike race takes in Keighley, Ilkley, Haworth and Silsden.

The garden evokes the more rural parts of the route, including the rolling hills, hay meadows and drystone walls of the Dales. It features sheep grazing as a peloton of cyclists, represented by an installation of cycle wheels, rush past.

Many of the towns and villages along the route are named on a water feature.

Gary Verity, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, said: “Once again we feel we have a creative and unique garden entry, capturing Yorkshire and Le Tour together.

“It will also be a great launchpad for our Yorkshire Gardens campaign and continue to help put Yorkshire’s great gardens firmly on the map.”