Yahoo News Chelsea Flower Show 2019: Andy Sturgeon wins best show garden - plus all the medal winners
The M&G garden, designed by Andy Sturgeon, has won Best Show Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the event's top prize. The garden is inspired by Sturgeon’s “deep-rooted” childhood memories of woodland environments, which he has explained to The Telegraph are “fundamentally, why I became a gardener”.
According to the RHS, it is inspired by nature’s power to regenerate, "this woodland landscape will be interspersed with stone platforms and huge burnt timber sculptures representing natural rock formations," it states.
Other Gold medal winners this year include Mark Gregory’s Welcome To Yorkshire Garden, who's design this year was inspired by the canals and waterways of Yorkshire and featured a fully-functioning lock (scroll down for the full list of medals awarded so far).
Known as the most glamorous event on the gardening calendar, the Chelsea Flower Show returned for its 106th year, boasting an impressive display of 11 show gardens and 17 smaller gardens.
The event, which is open to the public from 21 - 25 May, takes gardening to the next level, showcasing plants and sculptures to create a conversation around contemporary topics.
While the top prize, Best Show Garden, will be announced later on Tuesday, below are the best of the best.
The Show Gardens
Gold
The M&G Garden, designed by Andy Sturgeon
The Resilience Garden, designed by Sarah Eberle
The Morgan Stanley Garden, designed by Chris Beardshaw
The Welcome to Yorkshire Garden, designed by Mark Gregory
Silver-Gilt
The Wedgwood Garden, designed by Jo Thompson
Warner’s Distillery Garden, designed by Helen Elks-Smith
The Dubai Majlis Garden, designed by Tom Hoblyn
The Greenfingers Charity Garden, designed by Kate Gould
Silver
The Trailfinders 'Undiscovered Latin America' Garden, designed by Jonathan Snow
Silver Ikea and Tom Dixon: Gardening Will Save the World, designed by Tom Dixon
Bronze
The Savills and David Harber Garden, designed by Andrew Duff
The Space to Grow Gardens
Gold
Kampo no Niwa, designed by Kazuto Kashiwakura
Viking Cruises: The Art of Viking Garden, designed by Paul Hervey-Brooks
The Montessori Centenary Children's Garden, designed by Jody Lidgard
The Camfed Garden: Giving Girls in Africa a Space to Grow, designed by Jilayne Rickards
Facebook: Beyond the Screen, designed by Joe Perkins
Silver-Gilt
The Roots in Finland Kyrö Garden, designed by Taina Suonio
The Silent Pool Gin Garden, designed by David Neale
Silver
The Manchester Garden, designed by Exterior Architecture
The Harmonious Garden of Life, designed by Laurelie de la Salle
Artisan Gardens
Gold
Family Monsters Garden, designed by Alistair Bayford
The High Maintenance Garden for Motor Neurone Disease Association, designed by Sue Hayward
Green Switch, designed by Kazuyuki Ishihara
Silver-Gilt
Walker's Forgotten Quarry Garden, designed by Graham Bodle
Miles Stone: The Kingston Maurward Garden, designed by Michelle Brown
Silver
The Donkey Sanctuary: Donkeys Matter, designed by Christina Williams and Annie Prebensen
