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Second award for Bupa's gold medal gardenThe Bupa Garden, designed by award-winning gardener Cleve West, has won the RHS/BBC People's Choice Award at this year's Chelsea Flower Show. The Bupa Garden had already achieved a gold award from the RHS judges and following this BBC TV's viewers and visitors to Chelsea voted it their "best in show". Work is now underway to move the garden, which was created as a dementia-friendly sensory garden, to its new home at Bupa's Meadbank Nursing centre in Battersea in south-west London. Dean Cowley, director of Bupa Care Homes, said: "We're delighted that people recognised the value and the design of our garden - and our thanks must go to Cleve for such a great design, which was so well created." Bupa's gardening first at RHS Chelsea Flower Show It is the first time that Bupa has sponsored a garden at the world's most-famous horticultural event. The Bupa Garden aims to illustrate our individual approach to providing health and care and promote our leadership in providing specialist care for older people. The Bupa Garden design A key element of the garden is the use of features which make it particularly appropriate for care home residents who have dementia. The show garden builds upon the highly-successful sensory gardens project which has been running in more than 250 of Bupa's care homes for the past seven years. 
"I'm delighted to be working with Bupa on this exciting project," said Cleve West, winner of five RHS medals. Gardens provide both stimulus and solace so their value in care homes, for both residents and carers, should not be underestimated." Bupa's David Grint said: "We are immensely proud to have the interest and enthusiasm of one of the UK's most innovative garden designers. Chelsea provides a perfect opportunity to show how Bupa's individual health and care caters to people's sensory and emotional needs, as well as medical and nursing requirements." 
Helping Bupa to launch the 2008 Chelsea show garden and to raise awareness of the issues it will be highlighting was veteran actor Arnold Peters. Arnold plays the part of arguably the most famous dementia sufferer in the country, Jack Woolley of BBC Radio 4's The Archers.
Read more information about Bupa at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Find out more about Bupa care homes at: www.bupacarehomes.co.uk Visit the RHS Chelsea Flower Show website: www.rhs.org.uk
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