2024 RHS SHOW GARDEN - SILVER
The Macmillan Cancer Support Legacy Garden at RHS Malvern Spring Show was designed to be a rhythmic space that illustrated how energy is never lost but nurtures what is yet to come. The circular design allowed visitors to see the entire garden, taking time to consider their own legacy while circling the space. Viewpoints into the garden picked up on the lifecycle message within plants, for example, visitors were able to contemplate the value that the artistic deadwood hedge gave to the rich-soil-loving Thalictrum. Water as the giver of all life was the inspiration for the design lines, these being based on raindrops falling on to water, and provided the idea to wrap the entire space in a reflective, gently rippling, water rill. Collaboration with Studio Fitzpatrick. Photography by Fiona Walsh.
2023 SHOW GARDEN - GOLD
Working to a brief of Take Me Home, sponsored by the Association of Professional Landscapers, the show garden was designed as a front, central and rear garden space of a conceptual house. The design was created as a whole garden, showing the importance of visual language as you move through spaces. From a front garden designed to encourage interaction with neighbours, drawing on the value of building communities; to a rear garden space of exuberance and individuality. Central to the design was a courtyard, minimalist in design, a place to take time to embrace external views and experience the ever-changing patterns of light and shadow on the courtyard walls. Collaboration with Studio Fitzpatrick.
The permeance of stone and the fluidity of planting, a grounding place to sit and contemplate legacy in the 2024 RHS Macmillan Garden
Reflective materials bring the human element into the garden, reminding visitors of the value of their own legacy.
Beautiful artistry of the deadwood hedge, showing that when the growing stage is passed, there is the importance of nurturing and supporting new life.
The reflective water rill, binding and framing the garden, slowly transporting petals and leaves as they drop in, providing a mirror to our own lives.
Arrangement of space for the 2023 show garden, looking from front through to back
Rear garden low seating creates the feeling of being secluded within the planting
Central courtyard walls capturing the changing play of light
Details in the design ensuring contrast and continuity