Laurent-Perrier / Harpers & Queen (2004)

Following last year's success when ISS Waterers Landscape won a Gold Medal and Best In Show award at Chelsea, we've struck gold once more in 2004 with the Laurent-Perrier/Harpers & Queen Garden. This year's Gold Medal-winning design was created by Sir Terence Conran and Nicola Lesbirel - an elegant restaurant garden.

Laurent-Perrier / Harpers & Queen (2001)

Inspired by Mies Van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion and the work of other minimalist architects, the hard landscaping elements of the garden comprises an enclosing concrete wall and a central terrace made from soft, red sandstone. The terrace is reached by two planks of contrasting hard limestone paving. A water feature in the centre of the garden spills over into a rill and from there down to a pool in front of the terrace. Many tall grasses and cottage-garden style plants, including thalictrum, anchusa, astrantia, geranium, thermopsis, verbascum and aquilegia are used - planted in drifts through the grass to achieve a broad, thigh-high naturalism.

The Healing Garden (2002)

Designed by HRH The Prince of Wales, in association with Jinny Blom, The Healing Garden was inspired by The Prince of Wales' passion for both nature and natural remedies. Every aspect of the planting in the garden has been carefully planned to comprise plants that hold medicinal or culinary uses, or have proved useful to man.Gentle curves and undulations dominate the design, which also incorporates ecological building techniques and disappearing traditional countryside crafts. The garden is enclosed on two sides by a traditional laid hawthorn hedge - a first at Chelsea - and includes 125 species of tree, shrub and herbaceous plant, largely with healing properties. A curved lime stone path leads to a green roofed shelter, formed out of the earth and shored-up by lime-washed wattle and daub.