Chelsea Flower Show 2018: Chris Beardshaw wins best show garden - plus all the medal winners
The Morgan Stanley Garden for the NSPCC has won Best Show Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the event's top prize.
It is the first time designer Chris Beardshaw has scooped Chelsea's top honour and his win is something of a surprise, with many tipping Sarah Price's M&G Garden for the main award.
Beardshaw's design is intended to be seen as a metaphor for the emotional transformation that takes place as children experience the positive impact of the NSPCC's work.
Telegraph writer Tim Richardson described the design as "a refreshingly original take on the woodland garden, with an interesting range of plants whose subtle charms will surely please the connoisseurial judges".
Last year, the Chelsea judges caused controversy after Beardshaw's Morgan Stanley design was awarded a Silver Gilt medal, rather than an expected Gold.
Show gardens
Gold medal winners
The M&G Garden
A romanticised haven set in a warm, sunny climate. It expands on a simple, timeless idea that three core elements - a wall, trees and seating - can create an intimate, sheltered oasis of calm.
The Wedgwood Garden
An ephemeral pavilion appears to dance over a stream meandering through planting and naturalistic rocks and boulders. The space can be entered via openings in the planting at the edges, and an almost undetectable path leads the visitor towards a bronze pavilion which appears to change form as you walk around it.
The Welcome to Yorkshire Garden
A celebration of Yorkshire’s natural materials, traditional crafts and artisan food. The stone used in the garden was picked from the Bolton Estate. Dismantled and fallen walls have been used at the show and will then be returned and re-built at the estate.
Silver-Gilt winners
The LG Eco-City Garden
The garden highlights the increased presence of technology and our dependence on it, and raises awareness of the environmental issues and responsibilities we face in reducing pollution in modern urban life.
The Lemon Tree Trust Garden
The design evokes a garden that would be used by families in a community of refugees in Domiz Camp in northern Iraq, providing a way to bring order to a chaotic situation, as well as a space to come together as a community and to learn about horticulture.
The Trailfinders South African Wine Estate
Inspired by the Western Cape of South Africa - Franschhoek and Stellenbosch being the best known areas - some of the most recognisable and beautiful wine producing regions in the world.
The VTB Capital Garden - Spirit of Cornwall
'Spirit of Cornwall' is a multi-sensory experience inspired by the work of renowned British sculptor Barbara Hepworth.
Creativersal: Wuhan Water Garden, China
‘The Wuhan Water Garden’ aims to tell a compelling story about ancient water management with a contemporary environmental message, depicting the unique geography, history, plant resources and technical achievements of Wuhan – China’s City of 100 Lakes.
The David Harber and Savills Garden
The garden aims to provoke reflection on humankind's interaction with the environment over time and to take the visitor on a theatrical journey of transformation.
Space to Grow gardens
Gold winners
The New West End Garden
A modern interpretation of the gardens and architecture of a London square, it combines environmentally positive technology as showcased in Bird Street, located just off Oxford Street, to create a modern pocket of green space in the heart of London.
The Pearlfisher Garden
A celebration the largest "garden" in the world, the one underneath our great oceans. It aims to highlight the beauty of this underwater world whilst acting as a warning of what is at risk.
The Seedlip Garden
A celebration of the pea. The plant palette, forms, colours, patterns and multi-sensory elements are all relevant to the pea, producing a contemporary and educational tribute to Pisum sativum & three very important men (Mendel, Lambourn & Branson), from three different centuries, who are responsible for pioneering its cultural, culinary and scientific significance.
The Urban Flow Garden
The garden showcases how bold design features, colourful and abundant planting, and practical and versatile outdoor living space can all accommodated in a small urban plot.
Silver-Gilt winners
The CHERUB HIV Garden: A Life Without Walls
The aim of the garden is to increase awareness of HIV, the issues surrounding young people with HIV, and how CHERUB (which stands for Collaborative HIV Eradication of Reservoirs UK BRC) are working to find a cure.
The Myeloma UK Garden
A contemporary design with a unique, bold sculpture, this garden aims to demonstrate the work of Myeloma UK and what its medical profession and carers do to help myeloma sufferers and their families.
The Silent Pool Gin Garden
This garden is intended for a professional couple who live in the city and require a space to escape to and unwind from their busy lives.
Silver-Gilt The Skin Deep Garden
A conceptual garden created for an established UK skin care company. A sculpture consisting of nearly 200 concrete blocks has been designed to represent different human faces and skin conditions.
Artisan gardens
Gold winners
O-mo-te-na-shi no NIWA- The Hospitality Garden
Inspired by ‘omotenashi’, the Japanese concept of wholehearted and sincere hospitality received with gratitude, the garden’s aim is to offer the feeling to visitors.
The Viking Cruises Wellness Garden
Inspired by both the spa and wellbeing intrinsic to the Nordic way of life, the garden is imagined to belong to a single person or couple and draws inspiration from wellbeing in terms of plants and lifestyle.
Silver-Gilt winners
British Council Garden- India: A Billion Dreams
This is the first Indian Garden at Chelsea and marks the end of the UK-India Year of Culture, launched at Buckingham Palace in February 2017. In honour of this, the garden represents the historic and increasingly contemporary ties between our two countries.
The Claims Guys: A Very English Garden
This garden is intended as a space purely to bring joy to the onlooker. It is a celebration of craftsmanship and tradition with inspiration drawn from the Arts and Crafts movement.
The Embroidered Minds Epilepsy Garden
The garden is inspired by Leslie Forbes' novel ‘Embroidered Minds of the Morris Women’, a novel which investigates William Morris’ daughter Jenny's experience of epilepsy and the effects it had on the Morris family in the Victorian era when the condition carried huge social stigma.
Silver winners
The Supershoes, Laced with Hope Garden, a partnership with Frosts
"Laced with Hope" aims to offer some insight into a child's journey through cancer whilst highlighting the work of the Supershoes charity. As you walk through the garden, taking each step over the inlaid random riven paving, you become conscious of the words that often form part of a new language of families fighting cancer.
The Warner Edwards Garden
Inspired by the Warner Edwards Distillery, the garden reflects the surrounding landscape of Falls Farm, Northamptonshire.
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