Show Gardens and Borders
2008 Gardens include
The West Mercia Constabulary 40th Anniversary Garden
Adcote School For Girls, Shrewsbury
Designer: Adcote School For Girls
A garden to celebrate the amalgamation of three police services; Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire in 1967, which reflects changes in gardening styles over the last 40 years. Arranged as two police officers’ gardens; one set in the late 1960s and the other in 2008 and complete with patrol cars from each era, this garden is surrounded by low hedges and fences and has two false police house entrances. The 60s garden has coloured concrete slabs and crazy paving paths fashionable forty years ago, while the 2008 garden features decking, a stainless steel water feature and gravel and brick pathways.
Celtic Style
Artisian Designs, Worcester
Designer: Paul Graham
The garden’s theme is the evocation of celtic lifestyle and its relationship with the surrounding natural environment and fauna. To stimulate a remembrance of our proximity to nature and how good husbandry of land and resources was vital to the survival of a community. The garden features some of the shapes and materials the celtic people would have worked with, and a display of some practices and skills used in the building of their environments. It also features a wooden structure based on an ark, dry stone walls, oak stakes and hazel weaves, a pond, a sunken fireplace in the dwelling and a celtic stone. Planted with fruits, nuts and berries, seeds and vegetables and a cocophony of trees, shrubs, perennials and bog plants.
Garden of Tranquility
Designer: Sally Leaney
A blissful sanctuary of soft planting, gently trickling water and curved paths, designed as a place of meditation and relaxation. A practical usable garden that takes you on a journey with a brick edged path that curves through the soft planting, inviting you into the enclosed sanctuary. Cool shades of blues, greens and purples with warm cream colours and soft pink highlights create a sense of harmony, peace and calm. Some plants have been selected for their medicinal, soothing and healing properties to reflect the atmosphere of the garden as a ‘blissful retreat’.
Ornamental Hurst
Hurstpierpoint College
Designer: Jack Dunckley
An ornamental garden designed as a place of relaxation, contemplation and enjoyment. Something of a time-traveller’s space and a journey through British garden history. Grassland and rocks represent the Bronze Age, and exotic plants represent the present day, whilst scarlet poppies and a rockery using shards of metal, evoke the First World War. A waterfall will fall from a dry stone wall into a river which leads into two ponds.
Lovers Corner
Foliation Ltd
Designer: Jonathan Bishop
A secluded, fragrant repose, far removed from the hurly burly of life, and designed to induce calm in a frenetic world. Low maintenance, with a visual focal point of a water feature painted in warm terracotta to contrast and harmonise with the planting. Plants echo the themes of red for passion and green, the colour of nature, for tranquillity and harmony.