Chelsea Flower Gold Show.

The 100% Pure New Zealand Ora – garden of wellbeing, won one of four gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show in London. The garden was designed by Kim Jarrett, Trish Waugh and Lionel Grant, and was based around a Maori legend about mythical guardians of the land, it features carvings, a hot pool, and miniature pink and white terraces. And for something truly wacky (but equally impressive), The Telegraph’s gardening correspondent Germaine Greer reflects on the Antipodean offerings at the Chelsea Flower Show: “With its steamy vapours, its cavern (ruamoko), its silica terrace (puna), its hot pools (ngawha) and extraordinary variety of native plants, this garden made no attempt at an international style, but gloried in its essential difference, and the sense of completeness and well-being that comes from the fusion of self, spirit and nature. You felt it would’ve been good to slip into the hot pool and let the Patupaiarehe get to work.”