Chelsea Flower Show win for Wes Fleming

Philip Johnson and Wes Fleming (in red) pictured in April with their entry in the Chelsea Flower Show. Picture: Eddie Jim, Sunday Age

By NICK MILLER, The Age

MONBULK’s Fleming’s Nurseries has won the best-in-show medal at the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show.

The ecstatic team of Australians – led by Wes Fleming – are celebrating their win in the ‘Ashes of horticulture’.

“We’re the best in the world – we’re the Usain Bolts of gardening,” shouted Wes Fleming. It was Fleming’s last try for the medal after nine attempts.

The 18-strong team hugged and broke into a spontaneous chorus of We Are Australian after being told the news.

Fleming designed the Somerfield Estate garden in Keysborough.

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