Cleve West

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Cleve West is a multi award-winning garden designer who is based in Hampton Wick, Richmond upon Thames. [1] He began designing in 1990 and has won six RHS gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show. [2] He won "Best in Show" and gold medal at both the 2011 and the 2012 Chelsea Flower Shows. [3] He is one part of Three Men Went to Mow (along with fellow garden designers Joe Swift and James Alexander-Sinclair) who have made thirty YouTube films on gardening subjects.

In 2021 he was listed by House & Garden as one of the top 50 garden designers in the UK. [4]

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 Victoria 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". [5] [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Interview with Cleve West |". reckless-gardener.co.uk.
  2. ↑ "The RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2020 / RHS Gardening". www.rhs.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
  3. ↑ "Cleve West Cleve West Landscape Design Surrey, Garden Design".
  4. ↑ "House & Garden's Top 50 Garden Designers". House & Garden. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  5. ↑ "Cleve West's 'Marmite' garden / RHS Gardening".
  6. ↑ "Chelsea 2023: Guide to Cleve West's Centrepoint Garden".


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