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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Rachel Dixon

Gardening World Cup 2011 - in pictures

Gardening World Cup: Jim Fogarty, Australia
Best In Show AND Gold Medal
Jim Fogarty, Australia
This garden used exclusively Australian plants. Jim Fogarty also took gold at the Chelsea flower show earlier this year
Photograph: PR
Gardening World Cup: Maro Avrabou and Dimitri Xenakis, France
Gold Medal, Small Gardens
Maro Avrabou and Dimitri Xenakis, France
This ‘Flower Power’ design combines real flowers with photographs of flowers and colourful lights
Photograph: PR
Gardening World Cup: Lim in Chong, Malaysia
Best Design AND Peace and Flowers Award AND Gold Medal
Lim in Chong, Malaysia
This garden features tropical plants and sustainable materials and focuses on architectural spacing
Photograph: PR
Gardening World Cup: Anouk Vogel, Switzerland
Judges' Special Award AND Silver Medal, Small Gardens
Anouk Vogel, Switzerland
This abstract interpretation of 'peace' is an all-white garden, with flower heads, stalks and leaves made out of white paper
Photograph: PR
Gardening World Cup: David Davidson, South Africa
Silver Medal
David Davidson, South Africa
At the heart of this garden is a light feature symbolising the creation myth of African bushmen, with animals and people coming out of a great tree, enveloped by a deconstructed Ndebele clay hut
Photograph: PR
Gardening World Cup: Jo Thompson, Italy
Silver Medal
Jo Thompson, Italy
This 'Reconnection Garden' includes a circular pool with an intermittent pulse, creating ripples in the water, and olive trees to suggest the feeling of a secluded grove
Photograph: PR
Gardening World Cup: Sarah Eberle, UK
Silver Medal
Sarah Eberle, UK
This ‘Finding Unity’ garden is a contemporary interpretation of motifs for peace: the Japanese hill and pond, the Greek Elysium fields and the English picturesque
Photograph: PR
Gardening World Cup: Kazuyuki Ishihara, Japan
Silver Medal
Kazuyuki Ishihara, Japan
Ishihara uses garden design to express his belief in the need for peaceful co-existence between humans and nature
Photograph: PR
Gardening World Cup: Jonathan Denby, UK
Bronze Medal
Jonathan Denby, UK
A snail put paid to Denby's plans of creating an authentic Lake District garden ...
Photograph: PR
Gardening World Cup: Nico Wissing, Netherlands
Bronze Medal
Nico Wissing, Netherlands
'Green' is the guiding principle for Wissing's designs, from the planning stage to the use of eco-materials
Photograph: PR
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