We are proud to have grown for four show gardens this year. They are:
The Wildlife Trust’s British Rainforest Garden designed by Zoe Claymore.
Really great to be associated with such a good initiative, a mission to return rainforests to parts of the UK. Only 1% of this habitat remains. The design is a nod to an indigenous valley, with waterfall, stream and cool, temperate planting, including ferns, Bluebells and other wild flowers.
The Glasshouse Garden designed by Jo Thompson.
The Glasshouse is an amazing charity that helps women in prison rehabilitate through horticultural training and eventually careers after release. It is a sensory garden with layers of texture, colour and scent. Jo very much has her own style and we’re delighted to have grown hardy annuals and perennials. We can’t wait to see the results.
The Addleshaw Goddard: Freedom to Flourish Garden designed by Carey Garden Design Studio.
Joe & Laura live in Norfolk, which in their words has a slower pace of life. This garden celebrates the positive effects on mental health that gardening and relaxing in gardens brings. Norfolk is one of the driest parts of the UK and the style of planting reflects this with grasses and drought tolerant trees and herbaceous.
The Saatchi Gallery feature garden designed by Naomi Ferret-Cohen.
Commissioned by registered charity The Saatchi Gallery, this feature garden titled ‘Three Coverings‘, showcases the works of the artist Darcy Fleming, with larger than life, woven abstract sculptures made from discarded baling twine. The garden leans towards a wild meadow, with plenty of grasses and pops of colour around the art installations. Naomi’s use of gnarly trees is a brave move to highlight that plants and trees in nature can sometimes be far from perfect.
