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It’s Gold for Roger!

After an eight-year break and then just five month’s preparation and build, Roger has scooped a Gold medal for his M&G Garden at Chelsea 2010.
Judges stopped filming as they swarmed on to the garden Monday morning to make the final decisions on Roger’s traditional design with a twist.
But it wasn’t until first thing Tuesday until [...]

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Chelsea 2010 Diaries

For latest pictures of the garden build-up at Chelsea visit the Gallery.
For regular updates on the M&G garden progress on Roger Platts’ nurseries in Kent, please visit Roger’s
video diaries.
Click for his written update.
Follow up-to-the-minute garden progress on Twitter.

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The M&G Garden, Chelsea 2010

Having won Gold and Best In Show for his NGS tribute garden in 2002, Roger is back at Chelsea this year with his first large show garden in eight years.
He was under some pressure to come up with a dream idea in a matter of months for garden sponsors M&G Investments, also the Flower Show’s [...]

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  • ‘This is wonderful news, beyond our wildest dreams. There could be no more fitting way to celebrate the National Gardens Scheme’s 75th anniversary than with the top honours at Chelsea. Our enormous thanks to Roger Platts for so generously designing and creating this memorable garden for us and we send him many congratulations from us all.’

    by DAPHNE FOULSHAM, NGS CHAIRMAN, PRAISES ROGER FOR ‘GARDEN OPEN’ AT CHELSEA 2002