Hot, hot, hoooottttt….. This is weather the Reflections of Thailand garden was made for. If you go across the bridge and round the back it’s lovely and cool and shady in a jungly sort of way: I do like the planting on this garden. Here it’s bat plant (Tacca chantrieri) teamed with a spectacular alocasia and a ferny sort of plant which designer James Clarke said he’d grabbed off the trolley to use as a filler. Some filler.

This one won not only the only gold medal in the show (everyone a bit stumped by that: not by the fact that this garden won a gold, but that none of the other large show gardens else did. I thought the judges were pretty harsh this year)…. but also Best in Show. Any snide comments about hotel gardens are easily squashed by a closer look at the planting: quite sublime, and for a foodie like me fascinating what with lotus lilies, turmeric, kaffir limes and lemongrass. Fantastic.