Kazuyuki Ishihara (石原和幸 Ishihara Kazuyuki) is a Japanese garden designer who has won many gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show.[3][1][dead link][4] His design for 2019 is an artisan garden, "Green Switch", whose theme is switching from the urban environment to a natural one. It is planted with horsetail, iris, maple, moss, pine, watercress and features two waterfalls and a Japanese tea room.[5]

His show garden, Togenkyo (桃源郷 Tōgenkyō, translated on the English version of Ishihara's blog[better source needed] as "Peach Blossom Utopia"[1][dead link] and an allusion to the Chinese work The Peach Blossom Spring), won a gold medal and the Best Artisan garden award at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2014[2]

Biography edit

Kazuyuki Ishihara was born in 1958,[6] in Nagasaki Prefecture.[6] When he was 22 he began studying ikenobō-school ikebana.[6]

References edit

  1. ^ a b About Kazuyuki Ishihara, Kazuyuki Ishihara Design Laboratory, archived from the original on 2019-01-13, retrieved 2019-03-08
  2. ^ "In pictures: Artisan garden awards", RHS Chelsea Flower Show, no. 12, BBC, 2014
  3. ^ "Oasis of peace in Tokyo", The Japan Times, 24 October 2013
  4. ^ Robin Lane Fox (24 May 2017), "Chelsea Flower Show review: a springtime treat", Financial Times
  5. ^ Simon Swift (16 January 2019), "Everything you need to know about the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019", Good Housekeeping
  6. ^ a b c Kazuyuki Ishihara Design Laboratory Official Website