Kazuyuki Ishihara

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] Kazuyuki Ishihara was born in 1958,[6] in Nagasaki Prefecture.

[6] When he was 22 he began studying ikenobō-school ikebana.

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 ]