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Building one of the most highly anticipated Show Gardens of Chelsea 2023, Cleve West returns to the show after seven years with the Centrepoint Garden. The focal point, a part-demolished Victorian house where nature begins to colonise the rubble, is an apt metaphor for the work Centrepoint does in helping young people to find homes and jobs and build lives. “It’s daunting because this is not the kind of garden you expect to see at Chelsea,” Cleve explains. “But the main thing – regardless of whether anyone likes it or not – is that it gets talked about.”
Jihae Hwang is also back at Chelsea, after a 10-year break, with her garden Land of Healing: Korean Mountain Light, which evokes Jirisan, a mountain in South Korea. “We hope to convey the meaning of biodiversity and the preservation of species through the growing environment of medicinal plants, in a primitive environment with no human interference,” Jihae explains. “In the East, the human body and nature are not separated – we believe that nature forms the human body.”
Darren Hawkes’ explores the power of connection. “One of the privileges of being a Samaritan is having intimate conversations with people, and I hope this garden acknowledges the very real suffering that people go through in an