A Welsh rugby legend has served as the inspiration for a garden that aims to tackle the stigma around HIV.
Gareth Thomas, who revealed he was HIV positive in 2019, teamed up with designer Manoj Malde for the feature.
The garden at the Chelsea Flower Show, which the player affectionately known as Alfie said was "two years in the making" is a celebration of how far treatment of the virus has come.
Thomas – who was the first player to win 100 caps for Wales – said he was proud to have created a space that shared a message of acceptance in a "beautiful, different way."
"I came to the Chelsea Flower Show to de-stigmatise the HIV virus. Coming here, I felt that people wouldn't understand or accept me," Thomas told Radio Wales Breakfast.
He said this garden was his way of changing that and it was a "fantastic platform" to deliver an important message in a creative way.
"What we've managed to do is create a story of a lived experience through the beauty of plants and sculpture," he said.
