Matthew Wilson is a garden designer, writer, radio and television broadcaster and lecturer. He is a regular participant on

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on BBC Radio 4. He mainly works as a landscape designer but he is also a writer being a correspondent for the

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. At The

Royal Horticultural Society The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, is the UK's leading gardening charity. The RHS promotes horticulture through its five gardens at Wisley (Surrey), Hyde Hall (Essex), Harlow Carr (Nort ...

Chelsea Flower Show The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, formally known as the ''Great Spring Show'',Phil Clayton, ''The Great Temple Show'' in ''The Garden'' 2008, p.452, The Royal Horticultural Society is a garden show held for five days in May by the Royal Horticultural ...

in 2015 he designed the “

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Garden”. The garden focused on living sustainably through good and understanding the importance of conserving fresh water. The garden is divided into three main parts; a zero irrigation ‘dry garden’, central water harvesting/storage zone, and edible garden He won a Silver Gilt medal at the show. Despite his parents owning a cut flower nursery in Kent when he was a child, his career in horticulture only started in his mid-twenties. Wilson spent ten years with the Royal Horticultural Society as Curator of

Hyde Hall Garden RHS Garden Hyde Hall is a public display garden run by the Royal Horticultural Society in the English county of Essex. It is one of five public gardens run by the society, alongside Wisley in Surrey, Harlow Carr in North Yorkshire, Rosemoor in ...

and Head of Site and Curator of

Harlow Carr Garden RHS Garden Harlow Carr is one of five public gardens run by the Royal Horticultural Society. It is located on the western edge of Harrogate in the English county of North Yorkshire. The RHS acquired Harlow Carr through its merger with the Nort ...

, subsequently he became RHS Head of Gardens Creative Design. He was Managing Director of Clifton Nurseries from 2011 to 2016. In 2016 he established Matthew Wilson Gardens (MWG) http://matthewwilsongardens.com, a garden design and horticulture consultancy, working throughout the UK and internationally on projects ranging from courtyard gardens to large estates and corporate landscapes. At the 2016 Chelsea Flower Show his 'Welcome to Yorkshire' garden won the prestigious People's Choice award, voted for by TV viewers and visitors to the show. He is listed in

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in 2021, as one of the top 50 garden designers in the UK.

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