Cleve West - Landscape Design

SHOWS

Cleve has won a total of six RHS Gold Medals. His garden for Bupa in 2008 at the Chelsea Flower Show also won the BBC/RHS People's Choice Award and this year he won the coveted Best in Show Award for the Telegraph Garden.

Watch a video HERE where Cleve talks about the inspiration for the garden.

MEDIA

On television Cleve was a guest designer in both series of BBC 2’s ‘Small Town Gardens’ (2001 and 2002) and ‘The Garden Makers’ (2004). He featured in ‘The Joy of Gardening’ (BBC2 Dec 2001 & 2002) and was co-presenter on the 15 part series for ‘Take Three Gardeners’ (UKTV 2002).

He is now working with Joe Swift and James Alexander-Sinclair, collectively known as 3 Men Went 2 Mow, making short films and stage performances with a comic and slightly irreverent take on the horticultural world.

Cleve writes regularly for newspapers and periodicals. His five year column for the Independent Magazine, ‘Urban Gardener’, drew on an eclectic range of topics, from the practical to the bizarre and the peculiarities of how digging, weeding and moaning about slugs can actually keep us quite sane in an increasingly mad world.

CLEVE'S FIRST BOOK - OUR PLOT

'Our Plot', Cleve's personal account of ten years tending an allotment, has been published by Frances Lincoln. A video, by Simon Edwards, celebrating the book's launch at the Garden Museum can be seen here while orders can be placed here

WRITING AND FEATURES

The Guardian Magazine 07/03/09 - Pollarding

The Guardian Magazine 11/04/09 - Allotment Update

Elements of Garden Design - Published in Gardens Illustrated
Space

Water Features

The Plot - a year at Cleve's allotment
The following articles where published by Gardens Illustrated from March 2006 to Feb 2007. Photographs by Howard Sooley.
March 2006 - The Plot - Garden's Illustrated

April 2006 - The Plot - Garden's Illustrated

May 2006 - The Plot - Garden's Illustrated

June 2006 - The Plot - Garden's Illustrated

July 2006 - The Plot - Garden's Illustrated

August 2006 - The Plot - Garden's Illustrated

September 2006 - The Plot - Garden's Illustrated

October 2006 - The Plot - Garden's Illustrated

November 2006 - The Plot - Garden's Illustrated

December 2006 - The Plot - Garden's Illustrated

January 2006 - The Plot - Garden's Illustrated

February 2006 - The Plot - Garden's Illustrated

Other articles and features:
October 2006 - French Connection - Normandy Garden - Garden's Illustrated