Breaking News – May 2008

Jamie Durie wins gold medal at esteemed Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show in London

Jamie Durie, together with the team from Fleming's Nurseries and Trailfinders, has officially been awarded a Gold Medal in the Show Gardens category at the prestigious 2008 RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

Durie and his team from PATIO Landscape Architecture & Design created the award-winning garden, officially titled "Fleming's and Trailfinders Australian Garden, presented by Melbourne, Victoria, Australia" together with a large crew from Fleming's Nurseries and Ian Barker and Associates

'This is one of the most exciting projects I've ever worked on. We set ourselves the difficult challenge of using only Australian native plants in the garden and in turn created the first ever 100 percent native Australian garden in the Show's history. It is such an honour to have design trends that are so unique to our country acknowledged at such a respected, internationally renowned event. We are just thrilled', said Durie.

Durie also presented HM The Queen and Prince Albert of Monaco with a Queensland Bottle Tree of their own.

The resulting garden is a stunning representation of Australian horticulture and lifestyle that reflects the natural colours, textures and materials of the land and represents the many faces of Australia, with influences from Kakadu as well as Australia's vast deserts, picturesque beaches and distinctive flora.

Durie's design features a wetland, a large curved deck, fire pit, layered stonework, iconic native Australian plants and textured walls featuring a distinctive mural by renowned Aboriginal artist Gabriella Possum.

The world renowned RHS Chelsea Flower Show is regarded as the world's greatest flower show and is attended by approximately 157,000 visitors each year. Held annually for five days every May, it is a major annual calendar event in the United Kingdom (UK) attended by members of the British Royal Family and has been described as the garden design equivalent of a fashion show.

Jamie Durie will be available for phone interviews throughout the week. All interviews and/or pictorial opportunities are to be organised via Kate Aurel-Smith at Undertow Media.

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Jamie Durie is a qualified horticulturalist and landscape designer and founder of the international award-winning design company PATIO LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN. He is also a best-selling author, television host, designing his own successful line of outdoor lifestyle products, PATIO BY JAMIE DURIE, available exclusively through Big W stores in Australia. He has authored six books, PATIO - GARDEN DESIGN AND INSPIRATION, THE OUTDOOR ROOM, THE SOURCE BOOK, OUTDOOR KIDS AND INSPIRED.
Having hosted many of Australia's top-rating television programmes, Jamie is undoubtedly one of Australia's most recognisable talents: however, it was his role as host of award-winning TV sensation BACKYARD BLITZ where he first captured and inspired the imagination of the Australian public, successfully making gardening 'hip' again.
In the USA, he appears regularly as part of the team on THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW offering garden advice and inspiration, and he is also the new host of long-running gardening television programme THE VICTORY GARDEN SHOW on PBS. Jamie successfully combines his inspiration which comes from the vast natural beauty of the Australian landscape, years of extensive international travel and passion for the protection of our environment to create his own unique style and approach to garden design, and has truly pioneered the concept of The Outdoor Room.

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