Meet Paul Stone
With a clutch of RHS Chelsea Flower Show gold medals under his belt and three decades in the business, Landscape Designer Paul Stone is not easily fazed by the thought of designing a garden from scratch.
However, he admits that the challenge of designing a show Garden for the headline sponsor of this year’s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show has got the heart thumping!
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Paul, married with two sons, runs a Garden Design service, but specialises in Show Gardens, where his clients have included The Daily Mail, Help the Aged, Motability and Banrock Station Wine. His two gardens for Trago Mills at the West Country Flower Show at Westpoint won gold medals and a Best in Show Award.
He also looks after Landscaping at the Eden Project Cornwall, where he oversaw the mammoth landscaping project involving 85,000 tonnes they first had to make from scratch. There was so much work to be done after that he just stayed on!
He won gold at Chelsea in 2004 with the "White Garden", the only top medal winner in the small garden category and followed up in 2005 with another for "Steptoe’s Front Garden". 
Previously in 2001 Paul caused a big splash at Chelsea by featuring a Mini Cooper in the middle of a 1960s garden, voted most popular in the show. He was also part of the team which won golds in 1988 and 1989 at Chelsea.
Perhaps Paul’s best-known work was the 1997 RHS Hampton Court Flower Show gold and "best in show" garden entitled "The Railway Children" for the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust which memorably featured an ornate bridge and a small-scale steam train.
This year he has a major Garden commission at the Chelsea Flower Show where, as part of his role at Eden, he has designed a Garden called "The Key" to be built with the help of Homeless people and sponsored by Communities and Local Government.
