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Biography
Matthew Wilson is a garden designer, writer, radio and television broadcaster and lecturer. He is a regular participant on Gardener's Question Time on BBC Radio 4.
He mainly works as a landscape designer but he is also a writer being a correspondent for the Financial Times.
At The Royal Horticultural Society, Chelsea Flower Show in 2015 he designed the “Royal Bank of Canada Garden”. He won a Silver Gilt medal.
Wilson spent ten years with the Royal Horticultural Society as Curator of Hyde Hall Garden and Head of Site and Curator of Harlow Carr Garden, subsequently he became RHS Head of Gardens Creative Design. He was Managing Director of Clifton Nurseries from 2011 to 2016. In 2016 he established Matthew Wilson Gardens (MWG), a garden design and horticulture consultancy, working throughout the UK and internationally on projects ranging from courtyard gardens to large estates and corporate landscapes. He is still associated with Clifton Nurseries as Designer in Residence.
At the 2016 Chelsea Flower Show his 'Welcome to Yorkshire' garden whilst only winning a Silver medal from the judges won the People's Choice award.