Cork gardener on Chelsea Flower Show gold-medal winning team

Valerie Keating Bond, from Cork, (front), with landscape designers Adam Hunt and Lulu Urquhart, in their Rewilding Britain garden which won the top award at the Chelsea Flower Show. Picture: Tammy Marlar

A top Irish gardener has spoken of her delight at being part of the team whose rewilding garden design, inspired by nature’s eco-engineers, the beaver, has won gold at the prestigious RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

Valerie Keating Bond, from Cork, worked with the team headed by landscape designers Adam Hunt and Lulu Urquhart, to build their Rewilding Britain garden, which was also named best in show. It is the second year in a row that first-time designers have taken the show's top prize.