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Selamat Datang from Chelsea!
May 27, 2010
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By Rebecca Hoh, assistant editor at idfx
If I had to put together a list of the top 10 people I wanted to meet in my life, I'm not ashamed to say garden designer, ethno-botanist and presenter of TV show Grow Your Own Drugs James Wong would definitely be on there. I do love flowers but it's also the fact we both have Malaysian-Chinese fathers, British mothers and both hold the flora and fauna of Malaysia close to our hearts. So much so that Wong and his design partner David Cubero at their company Amphibian Design created the Tourism Malaysia Garden at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show and I could not wait to see it!
The beautiful garden in the 29º heat was enough to make you feel as if you were in the rainforests of Sabah, although the native Malay plants had to be watered constantly as the London heat was lacking the humidity the foliage are used to. Some of the plants included Asian Strangler figs, rare Slipper orchids and carnivorous pitcher plants.
Wong and Cubero designed the garden as a modern take on the traditional Malaysian village known as a Kampung, which features a bespoke pavilion of sustainably sourced coconut timber put together by Read & Co, a calm reflective pool and an angular, terraced layout with limestone slabs from Realstone . All executed by Landform Consultants , regulars at the Chelsea show. The 220 sq m garden, an RHS Gold Medal Winner, also has a living wall that recreates the jungle understorey, planted and grown at Aldingbourne Nurseries and is the first full size tropical garden in the show's history.
Last but not least I couldn't resist asking James for a picture!
Comments
oh! this is really beautiful garden giving a feeling of dense beautiful forest. I just loved it.
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