Business up 40% for sole Irish designer at RHS Hampton Court garden show

Alan Rudden: the garden designer won a gold medal at this year’s Bloom festival

The only Irish exhibitor at the world’s largest flower show has seen his business grow by 40 per cent over the past year.

Alan Rudden, who is based in Castleknock in Dublin, has spent the past fortnight setting up his garden for the Royal Horticultural Society’s Hampton Court show, which opens on Tuesday in Surrey.

The garden, which is sponsored by the Chilean wine company Santa Rita, will be familiar to anyone who ...