The Results are In!

Gardening World Cup Results 2011

Show Gardens:

Best In Show – Jim Fogarty (Australia)

Best Design – Lim in Chong (Malaysia)

Peace and Flowers Award – Lim in Chong (Malaysia)

Gold Medal – Jim Fogarty (Australia), John Cullen (U.S.) Lim in Chong, Ryoji Fujiawara (Japan)

Silver Medal – Sarah Eberle (Britain), Jo Thompson (Italy), Kazuyuki Ishihara (Japan), David Davidson (South Africa)

Bronze Medal – Nico Wissing (The Netherlands), Jonathan Denby (Britain)

Small Gardens:

Best in Show – Nguyen Manh Hung (Vietnam)

Judges' Special Award – Anouk Vogel (Switzerland)

Gold Medal – Nguyen Manh Hung, Dimitri Xenakis/Maro Avrabou (France)

Silver Medal – Anouk Vogel, Jin Zhe Chao (China)

Bronze Medal – Noriyuki Kamito (Japan), Yukiyoshi Hirai (Japan)

Additional Awards:

People’s Choice Award - Kazuyuki Ishihara (Japan)

Special Hospitality Award – Jonathan Denby (UK)

Announcing Japan's International Flower Show

Opening from Saturday 8 October, Japan hosts the only gardening show of its kind in the world; the Gardening World Cup. Held in a replica medieval Dutch town, Huis Ten Bosch, near Nagasaki, with a star studded cast of international designers, its theme is world peace. And this year it is being held in aid of the victims of the Japanese Tsunami.

A total of 16 designers have been picked to represent 12 countries and five continents. With the playing field made equal with fixed budgets and pitch sizes it’s like no other world-class gardening competition. 

An Outstanding Example of International Garden Design

Visitors to the Gardening World Cup will see gardens with a theme of ‘peace’ created by the best of the world’s garden designers including:

From Australia: 2011 Chelsea gold winner, Jim Fogarty with his ‘Australian Garden’.

For North America: John Cullen whose show garden accolades include awards for inspiration and design, awards of excellence, People’s Choice, and, gold medals and Best in Show from the Chicago and Philadelphia Flower Shows and the Singapore Garden Festival.

From Europe: The UK’s Sarah Eberle won her ninth gold medal at  the 2011 RHS Chelsea Flower Show with her Monaco Garden. Sarah’s previous successes include an RHS Chelsea Best in Show, an RHS Hampton Court Best in Show and two George Cooke medals for innovation.

Representing Africa (South Africa): David Davidson who has garnered 14 gold medals at RHS Chelsea and won the President’s ‘Most Creative Award’ at the 2008 show.

From Asia: Japan’s Kazuyuki Ishihara is a leading garden designer and Chelsea show garden gold medalist, who conceived the idea of the competition and its theme of gardening for world peace.

Huis Ten Bosch

Huis Ten Bosch is pronounced Haustenbosh and means ‘house in the forest’, Home to the Gardening World Cup, it is a spacious 375 acre theme park, which is roughly the size of Monaco and replicates a mediaeval 17th century Dutch town. 

Styling itself as an eco-city and botanical resort it was opened in 1992 and is quoted as costing approximately $3bn to build. It is both monumental in its conception and extravagant in its execution; an idealised version of Holland complete with windmills, palaces, villas, canals and tulips.

The park is broken up into several distinct areas, one of which is Palace Huis Ten Bosch where the Gardening World Cup event is held. This beautiful part of the park, with its stunning full size replica palace, provides a regal setting for the competition.

View Huis Ten Bosch Website