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Show garden exhibitorsShow garden exhibitors The RHS Chelsea Flower Show attracts garden designers, nurserymen, growers, florists and many more horticultural experts, from around the world. And this makes Chelsea the ultimate event in the gardening calendar. In 2008, the show will feature around 600 different exhibitors all showcasing their world class expertise, and producing the highest levels of horticultural excellence.The 2008 RHS Chelsea Flower Show promises to be a truly magnificent spectacle. From over 40 Show Garden applications, 22 have been selected to be built at the show, and the final line up consists of some of the world’s best garden designers. Show Gardens BRETT LANDSCAPING IN ASSOCIATION WITH GEOFFREY WHITEN “Real Life by Brett” Site number: RHW43 Designer: Geoffrey Whiten Contractor: Landscape Concepts Sponsor: Brett Landscaping and Building Products Press contact: Leah Taylor / Jeff Sims Press contact tel: 01622 604600 Press contact email: leah.taylor@edwardsharvey.com, jeffsimms@edwardsharvey.com Exhibitor address: Brett Landscaping and Building Products, Salt Lane, Cliffe, Rochester, Kent ME3 7SZ The ‘Real Life by Brett’ garden is themed around adaptability and sustainability. The garden is about real life aspirations, and provides a flexible outdoor space that’s perfect for everyday living. It is designed to change as the garden’s owner does, and can be adapted to suit each stage of life. The garden is one which could be recreated either as a small garden, or as part of a much larger one. The garden incorporates a flexible, adaptable building, formal outdoor seating areas, water features, a compost bin and a series of square and rectangular plant beds. The paved areas will be an attractive mixture of pavers, aggregates and ground cover planting. The beds and borders will be stocked with a selection of multi-stemmed trees, mature shrubs and pockets of colourful herbaceous plants, mixed in places with fruit, vegetables and culinary herbs. Ground cover will be planted in drifts and groups to add colour, texture and contrast to the muted shades of the stone. The balanced planting will give year round interest. BUPA “The BUPA Garden” Site number: MA15 Designer: Cleve West Contractor: Henley Salt Landscape and Architecture Sponsor: BUPA Press contact: Kevin Mochrie Press contact tel: 020 7656 2632 Press contact email: mochriek@bupa.com Exhibitor address: Bupa House, Bury Place, 15 – 19 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2BA The value of gardens in the health care sector is becoming increasingly important, and ‘The BUPA Garden’ was inspired by BUPA’s global commitment to creating garden sanctuaries for care home residents. It is designed to illustrate the individual approach that the company takes in providing health and care, whilst also highlighting its international coverage and leadership as a provider of specialist care for older people. A key element of the garden will be the use of features which make it particularly appropriate for care home residents who have dementia. A large spherical sculpture of textured concrete will be the garden’s main focus and will symbolise the organisation’s global values. The garden will also contain a soothing water feature, and the paths and planting schemes embrace the requirements of people with dementia. The garden will feature a number of plants that are used in medicine and the planting structure will be made up of several large Amelanchier lamarckii. Carpinus hedging will divide the garden and provide different routes by maximising the use of space. A mixture of perennials, roses and grasses will provide colour, texture and scent. The garden will serve as an example of how a small courtyard might be turned into a stimulating, but safe environment for residents and their carers, and after the show, the garden will be relocated to a newly-built care home in Kent. CADOGAN ESTATES LTD “A Cadogan Garden” Site number: MA23 Designer: Robert Myers Contractor: Willerby Landscapes Sponsor: Cadogan Estates Press contact: Gill Nunn Press contact tel: 020 7730 4567 Press contact email: gill.nunn@cadogan.co.uk Exhibitor address: c/o Robert Myers Associates, Hergest Estate Office, Ridgebourne Road, Kingston, Herefordshire HR5 3EG The Cadogan Estate includes some of London’s most famous streets and garden squares, including Sloane Street and Cadogan Square. ‘A Cadogan Garden’ reflects the history and the future of the Cadogan Estate. It will be a contemporary space, inspired by elements of the modern courtyards and squares of the Estate, whilst also referencing elements from its history. ‘A Cadogan Garden’ is conceived as part of a larger, shared, private courtyard off a residential street, for sitting and quiet relaxation, somewhere within the Cadogan Estate. The garden is set in a Chelsea of the future, and assumes a somewhat hotter and sometimes wetter London than today, so incorporates lush planting and cooling water canals under dappled shade. The garden is assumed to be largely enclosed to the sides and rear by buildings, and visible from the street through implied railings at the front. The “buildings” are represented by planted “green walls” divided into panels by strips of pre-cast stone. This references the emerging possibilities of the green architecture of the future. A space at the rear of the garden will be used for informal seating, and will be paved with sawn York stone slabs. To one side of the terrace will be a statue of Sir Hans Sloane, the founder of the Cadogan Estate. Seen through overhanging trees, this statue forms a distant focal point along the main path. The terrace will be surrounded by a shallow canal, fed by a water wall. The canal will lead to two shallow rills which flow through the planting, creating narrow vistas and informal irrigation channels. From the terrace, stepping stones lead across the canal into other parts of the garden. A stone path runs from the canal along the side of the garden, where a long solid timber seat enables residents to view the garden in both sun and shade. To the front of the garden will be a small piazza area, paved with sawn York stone. The two water rills emerge at this point from the planting to join to form a small pool. The planting is ornamental and designed mainly for semi-shade, with a high proportion of evergreens for year round use and reasonable ease of maintenance. A double layered tree canopy will be created with tall palms, and smaller sculptural trees. The centre of the garden will be occupied by a panel of low shrubs, ferns and herbaceous plants creating a woodland atmosphere, using plants selected for foliage as well as flowers. The colour of this planting will be predominantly green and white. CANCER RESEARCH UK “The Cancer Research UK Garden” Site number: MA21 Designer: Andy Sturgeon Contractor: The Outdoor Room Sponsor: Cancer Research UK Press contact: Jessica Borton Press contact tel: 020 7061 8492 Press contact email: Jessica.borton@cancer.org.uk Exhibitor address: Cancer Research UK, 10 Cambridge Terrace, London NW1 4JL The ‘Cancer Research UK’ garden is a contemporary woodland garden, inspired by the enormous amount of progress which Cancer research UK has made, and continues to make, in the battle to beat cancer. The progress of the organisation is represented by the inclusion of four large rectangular pools which increase in size from the front to the back of the garden. From within these pools, a series of computer generated raindrop-like ripples create a sequence of movement from the rear of the garden, towards the front. The backdrop to the garden is a “thought wall”, a construction of shot blasted and waxed steel rings, designed to symbolise the amount of research carried out by Cancer Research UK. This is placed in front of a cutting edge concrete render, made from crushed almonds, onto which the evening sun will project the bubble shapes of the thought wall. Key plants within the design include thirty large tree ferns, and the unusual Antarctic beech (Nothofagus antarctica). These are both southern hemisphere plants which will create an exotic wood and a series of glades, planted with shade and sun loving plants. The plant scheme itself relies predominately on green plants with differing textures. An accent colour of orange is conveyed with euphorbias, as well as the trunks of the tree ferns and the burnt orange colour of the wall. CLARE AGNEW DESIGN “The Reflective Garden” Site number: RHW39 Designer: Clare Agnew Contractor: Adam Frost Landscapes Sponsor: Ruffer LLP Press contact: Clare Agnew Press contact tel: 0788 191 5196 Press contact email: clare@agnewdesign.com Exhibitor address: Clare Agnew Landscape Design, Oulton Hall, Norwich NR11 6NU Although ‘The Reflective Garden’ is geometric in plan and structure, it was inspired by nature. Tall structural trees and flowering plants are in huge contrast to cool still reflective pools and horizontal groundcover. The garden is bounded by Carpinus hedging and bamboo screening and within it there is an eye catching vista along the back length. Pleached Carpinus, roof shaped Platanus and Cornus controversa surround and overhang three still dark pools, providing both shelter and structure for contemplation and relaxation. The pools reflect the trees and passing clouds and the edges are flanked by early flowering plants and grasses which glisten in the water. The garden plays on two senses; as the eye surveys the reflective pools, the ear is drawn to the running water from the wall fountain. The movement of water is in contrast to the stillness of the reflective pools, which in turn reflect the sky and bring light into the garden. The planting is leafy and textural, with tall early flowering plants and grasses reflecting in the water. Flowers are mainly creamy whites with a touch of warmth thrown in, planted in bold clumps and drifts. Strap like leaves of bamboo and grasses rustle in the breeze with bold use of Calamagrostris and Buxus cubes. The stems of pleached Carpinus and six roof shaped Platanus trees mirror themselves at the water’s edge along with Aruncus, Rheum, Zantedeschia, Iris sibirica, Osmunda, Angelica and Crambe cordifolia. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH “The Daily Telegraph Garden” Site number: MA19 Designer: Arabella Lennox-Boyd Contractor: Crocus Sponsor: The Daily Telegraph Press contact: Alexandra Jackson-Proes/Hanne Knudsen/Eleanor Jupp Press contact tel: 020 7591 9610 Press contact email: alexj@blj.co.uk Exhibitor address: Crocus, Nursery Court, London Road, Windlesham, Surrey GU20 6LQ The theme of ‘The Daily Telegraph Garden’ is simplicity. Hard elements have been reduced to a minimum, while restrained planting and water come to the fore, encouraging reflection of light and contemplation. The garden was inspired by the purity and restraint found in Japanese gardens. The garden is a contrast of vertical and horizontal elements; of planting and water; of hard and soft. A stone edged, rectangular pool of water fills the space of the garden, and is softened by planting on two sides. A serpentine path of stone, crossed by ribbons of white water lilies (Nymphaea alba), links the front of the garden to the planting at the back, and leads the eye towards a bamboo thicket. The pool is punctuated by sculptural rocks, half submerged in the pool, and four trees that frame the views and lend a sense of permanence to the garden, and a sense of age and height to the composition. The largest of these trees is Pterocarya fraxinifolia chosen for its association with water. The plants in the garden were selected for their strong visual association and effect. Simplicity and precision are key to the planting design. Large green leaves (including Gunnera), grey leaves, verticals bamboo and iris, rounded shrubs and roses create a rhythm. DATO K.T. “A Forest Within the Chaos of a City” Site number: MA17 Designer: Shao Fan Contractor: Peter Dowle Plants and Gardens Sponsor: K.T. Wong Charitable Trust Press contact: Charlie Methven Press contact tel: 020 7930 8033 Press contact email: dkcheung@newcenturymedia.co.uk Exhibitor address: DATO K.T. Wong Charitable Trust and Supporters, 41 Kensington Square, London W8 5HP This garden isinspired by the desire to introduce an original modern Chinese garden to audiences in the west, to link China and Europe. The garden is sunk one and a half metres into the ground and represents a traditional Chinese interpretation of the landscape as depicted within Chinese art. The interpretation is modern, yet maintains the cultural symbolism of the garden. In keeping with the “Literati” aesthetic of renouncing worldly temptations and other material and social obligations, this garden seeks to calm the mind and spirit of the observer. Therefore, the planting will reflect the qualities of simplicity and natural rusticity that is sought after in a Scholar’s Garden. Each plant or tree will be chosen for its individual beauty and unique characteristics most admired by the literati scholars. Bright and flamboyant plants and planting are naturally eschewed in a space that seeks to be a retreat or refuge from society. The plants are indigenous Chinese plants, but many are also considered to be European garden plants. Many of the choices will have medicinal qualities that have been described in the Chinese Canon of Medicine and the cultural symbolism of the plants is of paramount importance. Key plants include pine, fragrant Osmanthus, bamboo, tree peonies, Hemerocallis minor (syn. H. graminea), water lilies, Liridodendron Spiraea trilliums, grasses, ferns and naturalised orchids. DAYLESFORD ORGANIC “Summer Solstice” Site number: MA4 Designer: del Buono Gazerwitz Ltd Contractor: Brambles Garden Landscapes Press contact: Camilla Wilson Press contact tel: 020 7259 4901 Press contact email: Camilla.wilson@daylesfordorganic.com Exhibitor address: Daylesford Organic, JCB World Brands Ltd, JCB World Headquarters, Rochester, Staffordshire ST14 5JP “Summer Solstice” is an organic agrarian garden, linking a green wheat field flanked by native trees and wetland ditching, to a sheltered potager for the new century. Kitchen garden becomes ‘garden kitchen’ with an architectural green-roofed building where what is grown is prepared for dining outside. The planting is native and naturalised, and seasonal for the solstice. The garden is intended to demonstrate that the demands of organic practice, conservation, sustainability and self-sufficiency can be strengths, not limitation, in contemporary design. Native trees will flank and shelter a portion of green wheat, bordered by ditching for drainage and wetland flora, and native hedging for wildlife. This leads over a traditionally laid hedge into a kitchen garden, sheltered by stone walls and incorporating an outdoor fireplace. The focal point, a state of the art green building, looks down the garden, which planted green roof, solar panels, reclaimed timber and Cotswold stone. At its sides, flowerbeds for flowers and soft fruits, offer clocks of colour, giving sightlines indoors and out and shielding the “utilities” of eco-friendly living – compost, wormery and water storage. DIARMUID GAVIN DESIGNS “The Café Garden” Site number: MA24 Designer: Diarmuid Gavin Contractor: Basewood Designs Press contact: Paula Robbins Press contact tel: 020 7727 2002 Press contact email: Paula@diarmuidgavindesigns.co.uk Exhibitor address: Diarmuid Gavin Designs, Studio 4, Folly Mews, 223a Portobello Road, London W11 1LU This café garden is a place for people to stop, sit, relax and to immerse themselves in the atmosphere; a haven from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. The garden opens to a clearing to reveal an open wooden pavilion with slatted wood sections for shading visitors. Inspired by a set of 1940s style French mesh work chairs, outsized, stainless steel daisies will be the centre of drama in the garden. The daisies will burst out of the ground and tower above the garden, set at varying heights amongst rich planting and a deep green jungle of foliage. Tables and chairs with leafy parasols will be interspaced within the planted areas. Beyond the café, there will be a forest of lollipop Catalpa trees and daisies, a dreamy backdrop to complete the scene. Pathways will link the seating areas. FLEMING’S NURSERIES “Fleming’s and Trailfinder’s Australian Garden presented by Melbourne, Victoria” Site number: RHW34 Designer: Jamie Durie Contractor: Ian Barker and Associates Sponsor: Fleming’s Nurseries and Trailfinders Press contact: Wes Fleming Press contact tel: 0061 417 578 901 Press contact email: wes@flemings.com.au Exhibitor address: Fleming’s Nurseries, PO Box 1, Monbulk, Victoria 3793 AUSTRALIA The ‘Fleming’s and Trailfinder’s Australia Garden presented by Melbourne, Victoria’ has a distinctively Australian theme. The design uses some of the unique natural materials of the Australian landscape and combines them with modern elements to create a very liveable space. The design draws on the varying Australian landscape from the beach to the bush. There is an extensive use of water and an Australian native planting theme, utilising some of Australia’s most distinctive plants. At the front of the garden, a large shallow pond of water gives way to a serpentine timber deck. Incorporated into the deck are some gentle undulations that function as ideal positions for lounging in the warmth of the sun. These undulations are cleverly mimicked in the pool to give the impression of curved water. Rising from the timber decking, a stone wall adds a new textural element and functions as a retaining wall for the planting at the rear of the garden. Incorporated into the stone is a large day bed which offers another ideal location for relaxing. From one section of the stone, water gently spills into a secondary pool adding the gentle and calming sound of water to the garden. At the rear of the garden, larger rammed earth walls provide a natural backdrop, as well as providing a ‘canvas’ for some traditional Australian aboriginal artwork. Scattered throughout the garden are some large steel and copper sculptures that serve as decorative elements as well as offering the functionality of being used as planters. Also of sculptural significance are some large gabion bowls that showcase some large, distinctive Australian trees. The Australian native plants utilised in the garden are selected predominantly for their unique and unusual forms, and they are all hardy and robust plants that are able to withstand the rigours of the dry and unpredictable Australian climate. The planting mimics the way many of these plants occur in their native habitats – the larger plants in random clusters with an under storey that is more consistent and uniform. Key plants include Xanthorrhoea (grass tree) and Brachychiton (bottletree) – both unique in habit and typically Australian. Also included in the planting will be the new Anigozanthos ‘Bush Diamond’. This is a brand new release and the very first white flowering kangaroo paw which is a true colour breakthrough. HOME GROUP “Northeast @ Home” Site number: RHW42 Designer: Penny Denoon, John Carmichael Contractor: Landscape Management Services Ltd Sponsor: Home Group Ltd, One Northeast Press contact: John Carmichael Press contact tel: 01670 541880 Press contact email: info@landscapeman.co.uk Exhibitor address: Landscape Management Services, Cowley Road, Blyth Riverside Business Park, Blyth, Northumberland NE24 5TF The “Northeast @ Home” garden is designed as a communal garden which retains an element of privacy. It is simple, but stylish. Sustainable, but not boring. A building façade represents a ground floor apartment and stairs leading to a first floor apartment with balcony. A reclaimed timber deck is a private area for the ground floor apartment. Steps lead from the deck to the communal area. A Perspex vegetable planter is located between the deck and the communal area, which is surfaced with a permeable resin ground aggregate which allows rainwater to disperse into the ground. Stainless steel banding links the first floor balcony with the rest of the garden, and provides a continuation of the circular design of the garden layout. The planting creates soft semi-barriers to provide privacy, but also to delineate the different areas of the garden. The rear area structure is created with pine and birch, with under planting of white coloured shade lobbing perennials and ferns. Open barriers to the sides of the garden are created using mature Crataegus hedging and multi stemmed Malus, underplanted with yellow perennials and grasses. The open areas of the garden are planted with blue and grey coloured sun loving perennials and grasses, interplanted with structural shrubs and focal specimen plants. Roof rainwater can be collected and transported along a cobble filled rill which leads to a rainwater reservoir located underneath the Perspex vegetable planter. Stored water is used to irrigate the vegetables. Any fast flow water is pulsed over the edge of the deck to be collected in the same reservoir, whilst also creating a water feature. LAURENT-PERRIER “The Laurent-Perrier Garden” Site number: MA20 Designer: Tom Stuart-Smith Contractor: Crocus Sponsor: Laurent-Perrier Press contact: Emily Thoubboron Press contact tel: 020 7257 6470 Press contact email: Emily.thoubboron@wildcard.co.uk Exhibitor address: Laurent-Perrier, 60-68 Chapel Street, Marlow, Bucks Sl7 1DE The ‘Laurent-Perrier Garden’ is designed as a contemplative space with a dreamy and slightly surreal character. It is a garden of elegant understatement based on the idea of juxtaposing opposites. The build elements of the garden are comprised entirely of brick shaped objects, orientated in one direction, whilst the planting is in a seemingly random pattern. The layout of the garden is composed by overlaying a number of separate patterns. A grove of thirty year old hornbeams extends over the garden. The trees are pruned so that the foliage forms a number of rounded “clouds” which seem to float in mid air. This grove is dissected by a pattern of paths made from traditional Flemish bricks which are laid over the garden like a net. The paths eventually lead to a terrace at the back of the garden to a seating area. A third element of the design is a number of zinc tanks which are placed throughout the garden. Designed by Andrew Ewing, they brim with water and appear to overflow. Zinc is also used in large panels to form the rear wall of the garden. The metal was chosen because it can be used to make precisely detailed features and has a beautiful patina, and the cool blue-grey colouring suits the contemplative green garden. The fourth element of the design is the herbaceous planting which forms an undulating tapestry throughout the garden. The colour palette is predominantly green, and key plants include Rodgersia, Molinia, Epimedium, Asarum, Hosta ‘Devon Green’ and Astrantia. The planting is designed to be calm and poised, with an emphasis on form and texture, rather than colour. LEEDS CITY COUNCIL, PARKS AND COUNTRYSIDE “The Largest Room in the House” Site number: MA12 Designer: Denise Preston Contractor: Leeds City Council, Parks and Countryside Sponsor: GMI Construction/Talbot House/The Royal British Legion Press contact: Rosie Harkness Press contact tel: 020 3076 1331 Press contact email: r.harkness@rosetintedpr.com Exhibitor address: Learning and Leisure Department, 7th Floor West, Merrion House, Merrion Centre, Leeds LS2 8DT ‘The Largest Room in the House’ celebrates the ninetieth anniversary of the end of the Great War and takes its inspiration from the garden at Talbot House at Poperinghe near Ypres in Belgium. Known as ‘the largest room in the house’ the garden at Talbot provided an oasis of peace and calm where soldiers were able to grab some much needed rest and relaxation between periods in the trenches. The garden is a cameo of Talbot House and is designed to contain the main features of the original and, importantly, to capture its essential atmosphere. The textures, scent and colour of the planting palette has been chosen to give a sense of comfort, peace and serenity, using pastel shades in the central area, with the outer beds taking on slightly stronger tones. Materials have been chosen to represent the simplicity of the features at Talbot House and are typical of those in place during the Great War. A raised area accommodates a replica of the wooden summer house that still exists in the garden at Talbot House. LLOYDS TSB “Traveller’s Retreat” Site number: MA22 Designer: Trevor Tooth Contractor: Trevor Tooth Garden Practice Ltd Sponsor: Lloyds TSB Press contact: Anna Bennett / Dave King Press contact tel: 01227 808 321 Press contact email: anna@redmulletpr.com , dave@redmulletpr.com Exhibitor address: Lloyds TSB, 10 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7AE The ‘Traveller’s Retreat’ garden represents an area of garden that was once a pond, but due to the change in the water-table now sits mainly in the dry. This area has been transformed into an area of inspiration with vibrant colours, plants and architecture, evoking memories of travels around the world. The garden will be surrounded by a two metre high rendered wall which will be painted black and red. The wall will give protection to some of the more tender varieties of plants, and the coloured back drop will compliment and jar against the planting. The garden is connected by an oak pathway suspended above the planting, linking circular concrete platforms which are designed to allow a visitor to the garden, the opportunity to pause on their journey through it. Travelling into the garden, the visitor reaches a curtain of water, which leads to a platform suspended over a pond with bubble jets to give the water movement and life. On this platform, the visitor can shelter from rain or sun under ‘Venus’ - a metal sculptured folly inspired by a Venus fly-trap and made of steel and Perspex. The planting in the garden is an eclectic mix of plants giving different moods throughout the garden. Towards the front of the garden there will be plants that grow predominantly in dry, sunny positions, with mass drifts of Carex buchananii and Dianthus deltoides. An old olive tree sits to one side, and a Lagerstroemia under planted with Corokia cotoneaster to the other. Further in to the garden the planting becomes more tropical and vibrant and incorporates canna lilies, tree ferns, palms, Helenium and bananas, and plants in rich orange, red, yellow and blue. Verbena bonariensis repeats throughout the section, alongside purple textured plants, linking the planting scheme and leading the eye. The planting colours to the rear of the garden are gentler, with pinks, blues and greens and some subtle yellows. There are several key features within the garden. To the rear, is the ‘curtain of water’ within a stainless steel frame, which encapsulates a waterfall in a modern form. This curves and divides the garden naturally. Creating power for the garden and home is a wind turbine which is placed amongst some silver birch trees. MARSHALLS PLC “The Marshalls Garden That Kids Really Want!” Site number: MA14 Designer: Ian Dexter Contractor: Marshalls Gardens & Driveways Sponsor: Marshalls Plc Press contact: Jeremy Swallow Press contact tel: 07899001985 Press contact email: Jeremy.swallow@marshalls.co.uk Exhibitor address: Landscape House, Premier Way, Lowfields Business Park, Elland, West Yorkshire HX5 9HT The theme of the ‘Marshalls Garden That Kids Really Want’ is an organic playground. Its aim is to create a sustainable, organic space with a balance of fun, excitement and risk in a controlled, managed environment. It is an area where children can connect with and learn about wildlife, horticulture and biodiversity. The garden was inspired by what children really want. Throughout 2007 Marshalls conducted a series of school workshops to find out what children would like in their gardens if they had full design control, and from this, the ideas were translated into the final design for the garden. The majority of the play elements within the garden are inspired by the children’s ideas, including a tree for climbing and a rock stack with openings to create a cave-like chamber, for scrambling over and playing within. The rock stack has water percolating through one of its faces into a shallow pool that is edged with timber rounds which create a stepping stone path. The path leads to a timber orb den. The garden also has a carved stone snake path that winds its way through the garden. The snake’s head rises above ground level to provide a platform for climbing and jumping. The planting is designed to be robust and interactive. Large, bold leaves of Gunnera manicata and Fatsia japonica encourage children to play and hide amongst them. Other plants are more textural, including Acer triflorum and Prunus serrula with peeling barks, and Cryptomeria japonica ‘Elegans Compacta’, Cotinus coggygria ‘Young Lady’ and Stipa tenuissima with soft, tactile foliage. Strong, vertical accents such as Astelia nervosa ‘Westland’ work well within the soft planting, and grass mounds and other areas of wild flower encourage insects and other wildlife. THE MATERIAL WORLD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION “From Life to Life” Site number: RHW31 Designer: Yvonne Innes, Olivia Harrison Contractor: Hillier Landscapes Sponsor: The Material World Charitable Foundation Press contact: Moira Bellas Press contact tel: 020 7483 9213 Press contact email: moira@mbcpr.com Exhibitor address: Yvonne Innes, Farnham Barn, Farnham, Saxmundham, Suffolk IP17 1LB This garden was inspired by the life of George Harrison, who not only gained international fame from his time in The Beatles, but was a dedicated and inspired landscape gardener. The garden will be divided into four areas to represent George’s life story. The area to represent his boyhood years in Liverpool will be a small area reflecting the post war atmosphere. It will include an old child’s bike, rough weedy grass and a reference to his father’s vegetable patch where George’s love of gardening began. The 60s are represented by colourful planting and textural contrasts reflecting the decade. A huge glass sun with George’s song titles spiralled into the glass is a focal point of this section. George’s mature gardening years are illustrated by a complete contrast to the 60s and feature a tranquil moss lawn with ferns, grasses and white stemmed birches. The final section, George’s spiritual life, is accessed via a narrow rill of water. The planting is predominantly white and red and as scented as possible. The area features an ornate pavilion with decorative hangings, furniture and cushions, as well as two trees, large shrubs, roses, perennials and grasses. Linking each area is a path which changes in colour and texture as you progress along it. PHILIP NASH “Elevations” Site number: MA1 Designer: Philip Nash Contractor: Plantation Sponsor: Gavin Jones Ltd, DuPont Corian Press contact: Philip Nash Press contact tel: 020 8560 5046 Press contact email: Philip@nashgardendesign.co.uk Exhibitor address: Philip Nash Design Ltd, Suite 65, The Market Building, High Street, Brentford, Middlesex TW8 8LB The purpose of this contemporary garden is to entice and inspire; a retreat for the emotions and a space to entertain. The garden is viewed from predominantly elevated perspectives to challenge the way one would usually move through a garden. The design also explores the use of contemporary, new materials in a progressive and unexpected way. The backbone of the garden is an elevated walkway which leads you over planting and water, and finally bridges onto what appears to be a ‘floating island’ with an infinity pool at the heart of the garden. At its opposite end, the walkway transforms into satellite seating and a terrace. QVC “The QVC Garden” Site number: RHW37 Designer: Wynniatt-Husey Clarke Ltd (Sarah Price, Patrick Clarke) Contractor: Wynniatt-Husey Clarke Ltd Sponsor: QVC Press contact: Katie McConkey / Jessica Benton Press contact tel: 020 7067 1597 Press contact email: katiem@attenborough.net , jessicab@attenborough.net Exhibitor address: QVC, Marco Polo House, 346 Queenstown Road, London SW8 4NQ ‘The QVC Garden’ is a tranquil space for intimate relaxation, quiet enjoyment and rejuvenation. The garden was inspired by the natural beauty of the Welsh Black Mountains. surrounded by still, reflective water and fresh, naturalistic planting; this is a space of calm beauty. To create a sense of connection with rural landscapes, further inspiration was drawn from natural cob structures, dry stone walling and meadow planting. In contrast, 1950s architect, Richard Neutras, inspired the integration of steel frames within the space. An overhanging stone platform offers vistas across a still pool of water and naturalistic planting. Defined, steel frames create subtle points of alignment through which to view this tranquil, atmospheric space. Meadow planting extends into a mirror-like expanse of water, which in turn, seamlessly meets vertical glass. In contrast, rough cob walls further define the space. Inspired by natural meadows, a palette of grasses is blended with umbellifers to simultaneously provide harmony and contrast in form. Parallel lines of perennials run in repeats through the loose planning. Lime green, cream, white and yellow create a fresh colour scheme in the garden. Accents of dusky pink and aubergine from Astrantia, Anthriscus sylvestris ‘Ravenswing’ and Atriplex hortensis var. rubra provide tonal counterpoints. Working with the charity Thrive, the plants and trees exhibited in the garden will be replanted within Battersea Park as a part of its ongoing Battersea Project. SAVILLS PLC “The Savills Garden” Site number: MA18 Designer: Philip Nixon Contractor: Landform Consultants Sponsor: Savills Plc Press contact: Philip Nixon Press contact tel: 020 7371 0066 Press contact email: info@philipnixondesign.com Exhibitor address: Philip Nixon Design, Studio H6, Capital House, 2 Michael Road, London, SW6 2AD Inspired by the Tate Modern, and the experience of the journey through its varied spaces, ‘The Savills Garden’ examines the relationship between art and gardening. Whilst preparing his design, Philip Nixon used the rhythm and geometry of pictures hanging on walls and sculpture on display in galleries to influence his thought processes. The garden itself will be structured, geometric and randomly rectilinear. Both hard and soft materials will define the geometry. The planting will be predominately perennial with added accents of textural shrubs, including ‘frames’ of Buxus, and sculptural trees. The planting palette will be varied to allow for contrast in colour and form. Key features in the garden will include frames of reflective water, echoing paintings on walls. They will be still pools where colour and textures is created through reflection. SIMPLY ITALIAN “From an Ocean to a Garden” Site number: MA8 Designer: Paul Cooper Contractor: Pople Landscaper Sponsor: Simply Italian Press contact: Birte Nielsen Press contact tel: 01252 326 416 Press contact email: birte@simply-italian.co.uk Exhibitor address: Simply Italian, 6 Eggars Hill, Aldershot, Hants GU11 3NQ The theme of the garden is a geological story. It is a garden as a visualisation of the history of limestone, which began on the seabed as compacted shells, later to be forced upwards as continents collided to form mountain ranges. It is a garden of two levels; a lower zone is given over to water, and an upper zone is dominated by planting. With the planting at head height and above, the garden is intended to provide an intimate sensory experience for the garden’s owner. The architectural style of the garden refers to the 16th century limestone Veneto villas designed by Palladio, and the planting refers to both the native and man-made landscape of the same region. The hard materials used will be exclusively Italian limestone. Water will cascade, pour and slide down all of the stone surfaces, columns and sculptural forms in the lower zone and will collect in pools within the contoured stone floor. This area is intended to represent the formation of the stone on the sea-bed. The planting represents the final part of the narrative: the emergence and establishment of plant life on the young hills and mountains, and later the intervention in the natural landscape by man, first for crops and then for the creation of gardens. The rear of the garden will contain the familiar backdrop of dark firs, supported by other plants native to this region. Productive plants such as olive and myrtle will also be included as will some imports which are now established in many of the Villa gardens in the region. A box hedge will serve to provide a link with the architecture, and will also separate the montage of agricultural and natural planting from the formal pleasure garden. Roses have been introduced in many of the Villa gardens of the regions and are used to complete the story of the limestone. STUDIO LASSO “Garden in Silver Moonlight” Site number: RS1 Designer: Haruko Seki Contractor: Generating Gardens Ltd Sponsor: Royal Palm Development Co. Ltd Press contact: Tamae Rykers Press contact tel: 07960 615 617 Press contact email: Haruko.seki@studiolasso.co.uk Exhibitor address: Studio Lasso, 17a Granville Park, London SE13 7DY The garden is inspired by the architectural features of the Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto and it is designed as a contemporary interpretation of traditional Japanese concepts, such as a ‘succession of various sequential views’ and ‘capturing changing scenery alive’. The garden particularly focuses on the moon that is reflected and captured in a pond, to be looked at from a viewing platform. In the middle of the pond the moon will appear by shot-blasted glass lit from the bottom of the water in the daytime. On 20 May, the real full moon will appear in the evening and will be reflected onto the pond and viewed from the platform at the highest point of the garden. The garden is structured by a white stone pathway and viewing platform at the highest point. The curved path that leads finally to the platform travels first alongside water, then up a slope to a bamboo woodland. A wider decking path is surrounded by numerous bamboo sticks. The first line of the path leads people through the dark woodland of Japanese cypress trees, and the second line of pathway directs to the view of bamboo woodland behind the platform. The dark woodland, as a backdrop to the garden, is mainly composed of cypress which is seen in shrines and temples in Japan, and provides a secluded atmosphere. The planting colour scheme is silver-grey, and silver foliages complements silver-grey hard materials. Marginal plants, including irises and water lilies will provide special character to the garden. |
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