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Times
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Kazuyuki Ishihara wins garden of the year at Chelsea Flower Show
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden of the year award has been presented to veteran designer Kazuyuki Ishihara for Cha no Niwa — Japanese Tea Garden. Curated to be a place for quiet reflection and forging connections for his visitors, the garden incorporates various elevations to play with a sense of perspective and is Ishihara's first large show garden. The garden designer has now accumulated 13 gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show, bolstered by his first garden of the year award. Ishihara said: 'I never thought I could achieve this. I have done 17 gardens in 21 years, since 2004. All the memories just came back. And I was very emotional. 'While I was waiting for the results, I got so nervous because I
Times
18-05-2025
- Times
The Chelsea Flower Show garden that's changing lives
I've been going to the Chelsea Flower Show for nearly 40 years now. I've worked there in some capacity or other for 25 of those years and so, for most of that time, have been preoccupied with the gardens, the designs, the plants and the spectacle of it all. Chelsea is an undeniably exclusive event. Tickets — if you can get one — aren't cheap and those that visit only see the glossy finished article. There is, however, a side to it that goes unseen: the lead-up to the show and all the preparation — and I have seen for myself that being involved in creating a garden has the potential to really change lives. One show garden in particular this year, the Pathway Garden,
