Cleve West is a multi award-winning garden designer who is based in

Hampton Wick Hampton Wick is a Thamesside area of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England, contiguous with Teddington, Kingston upon Thames and Bushy Park. Market gardening continued until well into the twentieth century. With its road and rail ...

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. He began designing in 1990 and has won six RHS gold medals at the

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. He won "Best in Show" and gold medal at both the 2011 and the 2012 Chelsea Flower Shows. He is one part of Three Men Went to Mow (along with fellow garden designers

Joe Swift Joseph Samuel Swift (born 25 May 1965) is an English garden designer, journalist and television presenter. Television career Swift is a regular presenter and designer on the BBC's ''Gardeners' World'', co-presenter on the Royal Horticultural Soc ...

and James Alexander-Sinclair) who have made thirty

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films on gardening subjects. In 2021 he was listed by '' House & Garden'' as one of the top 50 garden designers in the UK. In 2023 West designed a garden for Chelsea for Centrepoint. The plants were dominated by a large derelict building – based on his step-daughter's

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town house in London. West explained: "The house has been destroyed and nature is slowly taking it over, with all the typical weeds you'd see on a site that's been abandoned for several years. It's nature's way of healing and a good to have an excuse to get weeds into a show garden, when they're generally banned!" The garden was described as "A very visceral metaphor for young people facing homelessness".

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