Chelsea Flower Show winning gardens

Best in show 2008

  Best Show Garden: The Laurent-Perrier garden

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is the highlight of the gardening calendar, setting the horticultural trends for the coming year.

The 2008 Winning gardens have been announced:

Best Show Garden: The Laurent-Perrier Garden

The 2008 Laurent-Perrier Garden is a contemplative space with a dreamy, slightly surreal character. The garden features juxtaposing opposites; built elements are composed of entirely of brick-shaped objects, orientated in one direction, and a planted element is arranged in a seemingly random pattern.

Best Courtyard Garden: Dorset Cereals Edible Playground

  Best Courtyard Garden: Dorset Cereals Edible PlaygroundPart of a new national campaign sponsored by Dorset Cereals, the Edible Playground seeks to encourage schools to develop a small kitchen garden for growing, learning and eating!

Best Urban Garden: A Welcome Sight, Adam Frost


  Best Urban Garden: A Welcome Sight, Adam FrostFront gardens play a crucial role for the owners of a house and for the wider community. This garden epitomises an ideal city front garden; it provides a welcome to the house's occupants, whilst being visually attractive and aesthetically beneficial to other residents.




If you can't make it to the Chelsea Flower Show in person this year, click here to take a look around the show gardens.

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