Show Gardens and Borders
2008 Gardens include
Aqua Libra (The Rainwater Harvesting Garden)
Summerdale Designs/Tree of Life Designs, Swindon
Designer: Marion Dale & Gary Couzens
A garden designed to meet the requirements of an environmentally aware professional couple desiring an enjoyable, well-planted, low-maintenance garden, sustained through the harvesting of rainwater. The garden has a circular theme, with front and back areas, curved paths, raised beds, a shared orchard area and secret seating. Rainwater is harvested through permeable block paving used in the driveway and paths and from the house roof. The garden has a spring/early summer flowering focus supported by structural evergreen shrubs, conifers, grasses and climbers.
A Twist In The Tale
Green And Stone Garden Design in partnership with Artisan Landscapes
Designer: Lindsay Anglin
A storytelling and performance garden for children, designed as a place where children can explore, discover and learn. There are hiding places, musical elements and places for refuge. The planting is based on the senses. Grasses create sounds effect. For touch, bold, jungle like plants sit next to fine textured plants, hairy leaves next to shiny. Contrasting colours create visual impact and the sensation of taste and smell are created through scented and edible plants.
Moel Bryn
A garden promoting sustainable use of plants and material -
Malvern
Designer: Alex Bell
An outdoor classroom which aims to encourage sustainable garden practices, looking at ways of growing food in an ornamental and practical way, using recycled materials creatively and attracting wildlife, maintaining a natural balance between predator and prey. The garden features a sculpture, a screen of bicycle wheels and scaffold poles, and a seating area with a sphere.
Hoyland Down
The Downs School, Malvern
Designer: Mark Eveleigh
A ‘Once Upon A Time’ garden with a railway theme, promoting the long-established traditions of The Downs School, Malvern and celebrating its merger with Malvern College Prep. A weather-beaten waiting room for children wanting to take time out to read or practise a musical instrument, provides a focal point. The garden features a wrought iron estate fence, materials reclaimed from the school’s old 1911 gymnasium, compost from the school wormery, path tiles made by the pupils in the school pottery shed, the school’s old delivery bike, locomotive and tender!
Sleeping Beauty
Garden Angels, Malvern
Designer: Sarah Kenyon
A relaxing country retreat in the centre of town, inspired by the client’s happy childhood memories and love of fairytales, in particular, Sleeping Beauty. The garden has a fairytale castle mural, with a spinning wheel and dark planting representing the evil fairy. The planting is soft and ‘cottagey’ with structure provided by box balls, phormiums and prunus cerasifera nigra for vertical interest.