The Trailfinders Australian Garden has won the gold medal and Best in Show at the Chelsea Flower Show 2013 at Royal Hospital Chelsea  in London today. Photograph:  Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images

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Head gardener Patrick Ardiff planting up one of Lodge Park’s pots. Photograph: Richard Johnston

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 Seamus O’Brien, head gardener of Kilmacurragh surrounded by the flowers of the tree rhododendron, R.arboreum ssp. cinnamomeum, which is in full bloom in the gardens at the moment. Photograph: Richard Johnson

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 A homemade mini-hoophouse. Photograph: Richard Johnston

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 The walled garden of Castle Durrow, County Laois

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