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The Winning Gardens
Chelsea Flower Show: 2004
Planting termed 'near perfect' by the
judges helped the garden Hortus Conclusus, designed by Christopher
Bradley-Hole for the Shaikh Al-Nahayan, win Best in Show this year.
Hortus Conclusus
Best Show
Garden award for Chelsea 2004 has been awarded to Hortus Conclusus
designed by Christopher Bradley-Hole.
Christopher Bradley-Hole's Hortus Conclusus has snapped up the
Best Show Garden award at this year's Chelsea. The modern, European
garden is an enclosed space, cooled by a wall of water and shaded by a
grove of six umbrella-pruned plane trees: an ideal place to retire to
when coping in a hot, arid barren climate. According to Christopher, who
is the married to COUNTRY LIFE's gardens editor Kathryn, 'the garden is
a modernist reinterpretation of an early islamic garden'.
Judges were unanimously impressed with Hortus Conclusus, describing the planting in particular as near perfect. The hard and soft landscaping is well balanced, fulfilling the brief perfectly. They added that overall 'the unity of the garden was excellent'.
Three show garden Gold Medals were awarded this year compared to six awarded in 2003. Six Silver-Gilt, seven Silver, and four Bronze medals were also awarded (see box below for details).
This Year's Awards
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Best Show Garden |
Hortus Conclusus, designed by Christopher Bradley-Hole |
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Award |
Garden |
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Gold |
The Laurent Perrier/Harpers & Queen Garden by Terence Conran & Nicola Lesbirel |
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Gold |
The Japanese Way by Maureen Busby |
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Gold |
100% Pure New Zealand by Kim Jarret |
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Gold |
Visions of Snowdonia by Peter Tinsley & Sons |
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Silver-Gilt Flora |
The Stonemarket Boat Race Anniversary Garden by Bunny Guinness |
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Silver-Gilt Flora |
The Merrill Lynch Garden by Dan Pearson |
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Silver-Gilt Flora |
The Knightsbridge, Urban Renaissance by Phil Jaffa |
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Silver-Gilt Flora |
A Colourful Suburban Eden by Diarmuid Gavin |
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Silver-Gilt Flora |
Fleming's Australian Inspiration by Jim Fogarty |
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Silver-Gilt Flora |
The 4head Garden - From Merlin to Medicine by Marney Hall |
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Silver Flora |
From Darkness to Light by Julian Dowle |
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Silver Flora |
The Woolworths Garden by the Pickard School of Garden Design |
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Silver Flora |
The Garden of Hope by Jeff Goundrill |
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Silver Flora |
The Motability Garden by Motability |
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Silver Flora |
The Daihatsu Green Garden by Burntwood School for Girls |
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Silver Flora |
The Cancer Research UK Life Garden by Jane Hudson and Erik de Maeijer |
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Silver Flora |
Plant Hunters by Mike Baldwin & Gill Thomas |
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Bronze Flora |
From Freedom to the Future by Martin Smith & Antonia Stowe |
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Bronze Flora |
The Haddonstone Knot Garden by Simon Scott |
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Bronze Flora |
Garden Wild Bird Garden by David Domoney |
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Bronze Flora |
William Turner Garden by Chris Davis, Casella Stanger |
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