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Well here we are at this very special time of year in the landscaping industry calendar… the prestigious RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

Everybody involved in gardens this year or at any time in the past will know that designing and building a garden is all-consuming, and the fun begins at the beginning of May when contractors will be rolling onto the showground with specialist machinery and teams dedicated to producing the best the sector has to o er.

Whether you’re lucky enough to visit the show, or will be viewing via TV coverage, this year’s event promises to be a real extravaganza. We’ve put together a guide on all the gardens plus interviews with some key people involved in 2016, see the interview with om ar eet show manager on page Mark Gregory will be creating his 150th Show Garden this year so we asked him to look bac at his fa ourite past gardens find out more on page 10. Enjoy the show and hope to see you there…

See the rest of the Main Avenue gardens on page 17

WHAT'S INSIDE...

05 Chelsea Highlights All the displays, plants and exhibits

06 30 Minutes With Chelsea Show manager Tom Harfleet

10 Mark Gregory Celebrates his 150th Show Garden

12 Stars of the Show

14 The RHS Judging Process 17 Main Avenue 27 Fresh Gardens 31 Artisan Gardens 34 Trade Stands

Jamie Butterworth on Chelsea's plants

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HIGHLIGHTS

CHELSEA HIGHLIGHTS A roundup of the show-stopping displays, plants and exhibits you can expect to see at Chelsea this year

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he RHS Chelsea Flower Show is set have a number of highlights this year, including a celebration of HM the Queen’s 90th birthday. To mark the occasion, the event will include photographic exhibitions of the RHS patron who has isited the prestigious ower show times along with a oral arch at both the ull ing and ondon ate entrances to the show. An InstaPlant living wall will also be commemorating the event as part of he un lower uare in the reat a ilion.

It will be hard to miss the poppy tribute presented by Phillip Johnson andscapes in the grounds of the o al ospital helsea where the ower show has been held e er ear since . t will be the first time the show and hospital grounds have been connected in such a huge wa with crocheted poppies being incorporated across 2,000m2.

ness & horticu i p ltu ap The ‘RHS h re Greening Grey Britain h, Garden for Health, Happiness

and Horticulture’ designed by AnnMarie Powell will be this year’s RHS garden.

Promoting the benefits of making urban spaces more planted-up, the garden is part of the RHS’s Greening Grey Britain campaign. This theme will appear across a number of show gardens, including Jekka McVicar’s ‘A Modern Apothecary’ garden, Chris Beardshaw’s collaboration with Morgan Stanley for Great Ormond Street Hospital, and Charlie Albone’s Gardena and Husqvarna garden.

The Great Pavilion will also feature this theme, with ‘Healthy Gardens, Healthy Gardeners’ by Coventry University exhibiting in the Discovery Zone, promoting gardening as a form of exercise.

Ambassador Mary Berry is being honoured by Harkness with the new hybrid tea bush rose being named after her. The Mary Berry Rose, launching at Chelsea, has a colour that varies slightly with the seasons, opening with a variety of shades from cream to golden The yellow. Not the only rose to launch at the event, the Great Pavilion will feature Modern Slavery Rose will also be unveiled by Dickson over 100 exhibits this year, from first Nurseries in the Modern Slavery Garden designed timers such as Love the Plot You’ve Got

by Juliet Sergeant. Celebrating the Modern Slavery to Chelsea veterans Kelways. One of the most Act passed by the British Parliament in March last outstanding displays will be from Bowden Hostas, year, the rose is part of the Floribunda group of whose centrepiece will be an original 1920s British roses, thriving in most weather conditions with a Belmond train carriage, taking up 6,000ft2 with a planted-up reddish-orange hue. Veering away from flowers, train station of two platforms. The New Covent Garden Flower the RHS has introduced something new of its Market exhibit will be featuring the debut design of event florist own. A Best Construction Award will now Veevers Carter, entitled ‘Behind every great florist…’ The floral celebrate those who build the gardens, installation will symbolise the connection between the wholesale with all the gardens that achieve market and London’s independent florists. Also to be revealed excellent in the existing construction at the show will be a 'universally recognised image' amongst the category going on to be judged for closely packed cut flowers of the display. the award.

Over 70 companies have contributed to the first cross industry garden at Chelsea, The Sun Flower Square, which will feature four model garden displays measuring 4m x 4m each. The floral exhibit will have a number of highlights, including a mass display of hanging baskets to celebrate the Garden Centre Association’s Golden Jubilee and a dining table with garden trowels and forks as cutlery designed by Lovania to bring the room outside.

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Tom Harfleet Pro Landscaper’s Fay Tate spoke to RHS Chelsea show manager Tom Harfleet to get the rundown of his role at the RHS, what has him most excited for this year's show and the new Best Construction Award

How did you get into the industry?

I went to Merrist Wood and did landscape construction and amenity horticulture. After that, I went on and did garden design at errist ood with ndrew u . fter doing the design course, I sort of fell out of the industr and went o tra elling ended up in ew ealand wor ing in ine ards so I was back in horticulture while I was tra elling. hen mo ed bac home and started working as a gardener for a year, and after that, I worked as a labourer for a company called BNE Landscapes who ended up building m first show garden at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower how. here won a old edal and est onceptual arden in .

How did you become involved with the show? first attended the show as a isitor aged with m mother. remember wal ing around the show and thinking that one day wanted to win a old edal at the Chelsea Flower Show. It was a long slog to get from wanting to exhibit at the show to actuall getting there. e e hibited at Hampton Court with my brother, in New

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Zealand with Andrew Fisher-Tomlin and then, finall e hibited a resh garden at the helsea lower how in which was awarded a old edal. doing all of that in a er short period of time it ga e me a good insight to the inner wor ings of shows. found out about this ob at the and went for the role. fter an e tensi e inter iew process got it when found out was o er the moon.

What's your role at the RHS and what will you be doing on the day? am the show manager of helsea loo after all horticultural elements of the show along with two deputies. e also wor er closel

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What are you most excited for at this year's show? his ear m personall loo ing forward to feeling more comfortable going into the show. e got a ear under m belt and now what to e pect which in some wa s is more terrif ing than not nowing. m loo ing forward to wor ing with our e hibitors man of them ha e actuall e hibited with. t s going to be a fun month. hat s d erent a o t th s year s show or the first time in ears we ha e two new garden plots on the o al ospital a and the triangle will feature two gardens this ear rather than one we ha e iarmuid a in with arrods and am ens with loud a .

What is the contractor's award and what does it mean? his ac nowledges the achie ement and ambition of the contractors to the o erall gardens. e want to recognise the e pertise demonstrated in the construction of show gardens at all shows. ll gardens at the www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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show that achie e e cellent for construction will be eligible for this new and e citing award.

with artle otanic. e re luc to ha e such a depth of ualit designers this ear.

What are the highlights of Chelsea this year? owdens is bringing in an actual train carriage from the s elmond ritish ullman sister train to the enice implon rient press in to the show which is a first. a ing le e est nd turgeon and ugo ugg bac is great for the show and to ha e new designers li e am ens pre ious winner of oung esigner of the ear is fantastic. esigners that ha e been around the show for a while but ha en t been on the ain enue before are now there li e atherine ac onald

What TV coverage is there this year and how many hours will be shown? here s around and a half to hours of prime time and both during the da and in the e ening. he iewership last ear was a total of around m and global reach was around m. he total was . bn for last ear.

How many people are you expecting at the show? e sell out e er ear the total number of tic ets is o er fi e da s all in acres.

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A N N I V E R S A RY

150 MARK GREGORY CELEBRATES 150th SHOW GARDEN

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his year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show will see Mark Gregory of Landform Consultants build his 150th RHS show garden.

The Landform team will be building The Hartley Botanic Garden, designed by Catherine MacDonald, along with two other gardens at the event.

there’s probably one garden that sticks in my mind: the Savills Garden designed by Philip Nixon and Marcus Barnett in 2006. It’s one that I often open presentations with because it was poured polished concrete, white rendered walls, and it rained an awful lot. The concrete couldn’t have been more complicated, and we only had seven days to build and polish it.We ended up waxing it, and it got Best in Show and a Gold Medal, but in reality, it wasn’t what it was meant to be. That was the most stressful garden I’ve ever built.

How d d yo rst ecome n ol ed n ld ng show gardens Chelsea was always on my agenda. I trained with the RHS when I was younger, where we were bussed down to Chelsea to help set up RHS displays. I was blown away by the scale and professionalism and just thought I needed to be a part of it. In 1989, two months after my first compan andmar had started trading we were asked to build a trade exhibit, not a garden. The RHS was thrown by it because it was very much a garden, though I don’t think it was judged because it wasn’t in the schedule. hat was the first show garden e er built. his is my 27th consecutive year at Chelsea.

o ha e een awarded n mero s medals y the RHS h ch old edal are yo most pro d o and why The Gold Medal I’m most proud of would be my own personal one in 2008 for The Children’s Society Garden. It was a tiny little garden that got a lot of design acclaim and got the charity a lot of kudos and press coverage. It pushed a few boundaries.

Land orm Cons ltants s ld ng three show gardens at Chelsea th s year hat do yo th nk makes yo stand o t I think an enthusiasm and determination to accept nothing but the best. What sets us aside as a company, not just me, is our willingness to help other people. Chelsea can be a daunting place for anybody, especially if you’re young and new to it, and sometimes you just need a friendly face. Particularly in 2010, one of the most memorable things for me was helping so many people. I can’t walk past somebody if they’re going to mess something up – I’ll get involved, not because I’m interfering but because I don’t want anybody to have a bad day. I think that’s our USP on that site.

h ch garden sho ld ha e won a old t d dn’t I personally thought last year we were robbed.

I’m very philosophical about it really. Last year, the Singapore Hidden Beauty of Kranji garden, was spectacular. I thought it was a really harsh decision. I’m an RHS judge as well, and I really didn’t understand the judging on that one. The Chelsea Flower Show had never seen anything quite like it on Main Avenue, and that in itself should have been a celebration. John Tan and

team o orldSk lls compet t on w nners w ll e o n ng yo to ld yo r th garden Can yo tell s a t a o t th s These are people who have actually worked at Chelsea before, so they’re people who have worked on trade stands and as part of teams.

I believe in WorldSkills – I want to put it a bit more on the map. It annoys me that we talk about apprentices but as a country we don’t recognise WorldSkills. I think it’s an amazing thing for people to do.

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Raymond Toh, and everyone else, was happy with it, and after 150 gardens you can’t get that precious about it. The feedback is really important – I still want feedback even when I get a Gold Medal.

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PLANTS

STARS SHOW OF THE

Jamie Butterworth gives us an inside look at the plants he’s growing for four of this year’s Main Avenue gardens

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s we all know, the most important part of the Chelsea Flower Show is the plants. As I may have mentioned once or twice, this year I am jointly responsible for the growing of the plants for four Main Avenue gardens. Having grown up watching Chelsea on TV, I dreamed of visiting the show and

Hugo Bugg – Royal Bank of Canada Out of all the gardens we are growing for this year, this is by far the most challenging and daunting. Don’t get me wrong if we can pull it o it will be one of the most unique gardens Chelsea has ever seen. Being a Jordanian garden, the nature of the plants means they hate warm, wet weather – exactly the weather we've had this winter.

Hugo is creating a garden based on humanity’s need for water. As you can imagine, the planting pallet is based on Jordanian natives and plants that grow in areas of drought. The plant list for Hugo’s garden includes plants that I had never even heard of.

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idolised the designers – so it is a huge privilege to grow the plants for them and work with them now.

Hortus Loci, the nursery I work for, was founded by plant masters Mark Straver and Robin Wallis, who have about 70 years of experience between them growing plants for some of the world's best designers. Hortus is only four

years old, yet in those four years it has managed to net ten Gold Medals, two People’s Choice Best in Show Awards, and one Best in Show. Not bad going.

Growing the plants for Chelsea begins in June the prior year. For a brief breakdown of how we grow the plants, see page 84 of this month’s Pro Landscaper.

Geranium tuberosum he soft lilac owers of this beautiful, naturally spreading perennial are cushioned by a glaucous serrated foliage. Originating form the middle east, where it grows in rocky slopes, it requires maximum sunlight and will go dormant during the summer months.

Silybum marianum Milk Thistle A large growing thistle with striking foliage, vivid white veins run through the large spiny leaves. Naturally grows wild across Jordan and other middle eastern countries. Flowering in its second year, this biennial can grow up to 1.5m. Surely a first for helsea.

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Cleve West – M&G Garden le e est is the ing of helsea. ha e grown up watching le e win old after old at helsea and don t thin would ha e e er imagined that could be growing the plants for him. le e is creating a glade full of naturalistic woodland perennials and as ou would e pect it is a trul fantastic inspiring mi . he combination of delicate woodland perennials and a tapestr of ferns and grasses will help to achie e the enchanted forest loo .

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relati el rare culti ar of unaria. ith pin owers towering abo e its purple foliage it will produce owers in its second ear but the foliage itself is uite a statement.

lo el woodland perennial which produces stems of delicate white owers followed b large gloss lea es. t is a fantastic et underused ground co er plant.

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Calluna sp am will be using a range of heathers in his garden to recreate that natural heathland e ect. eathers ha en t been used at helsea in a long time and for one am loo ing forward to seeing them.

his will be am s first e er helsea appearance with a garden on the triangle. am along with ugo won the oung arden esigner of the ear competition bac in . e are alwa s een to wor with oung and upcoming designers. am will be creating a heathland garden. sing a er limited pallet of plants am will be using a mi ture of nati e grasses and nectar rich heathers.

Potentilla x tonguei his uaint small ground co er herbaceous perennial boasts apricot orange petals and will be used as little gems dotted through the garden.

Ann-Marie Powell – RHS uite simpl lo e this garden. nn arie is creating this ear s reening re ritain garden de oted to ealth appiness and orticulture . t will be a bright brilliant and wonderful garden that shows ust how much ou can achie e in a small space. he garden will be an e plosion of colour using a da ling pallet of colours along with an arra of edible plants grown in pots so it can be easil replicated b the isitor with little or no space.

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ne of the new eums for with petals ranging from ellow to orange to red in the same wa as the coc tail. erfect for adding an e tra ing to the planting.

bold brilliant purple that has the most incredible scent ou will certainl smell it before ou see it. his rose will add a real statement to the garden.

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JUDGING

THE RHS JUDGING PROCESS F

or those who are not directly involved with the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the criteria for winning one of its highly coveted RHS Medals may be slightly mystifying. RHS medals are awarded to horticultural exhibits as a mark of excellence by highly experienced judging panels and there are four grades; Gold, Silver-Gilt, Silver and Bronze. For Show Gardens, the judging process involves three stages: assessment,

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judging and moderation, and it begins prior to the gardens even being built on site.

Five weeks prior to judging a client’s brief form is sent to designers, which they have two weeks to complete and return. These briefs are collated by the RHS and sent to the relevant judging panels two weeks before judging so that they can be read by the judges in advance of them coming to site.

Assessment (Sunday 22 May 2016)

A team of three assessing judges will visit the garden, where a two minute presentation is given by a representative of the garden. Any developments since submitting the brief can be highlighted, and questions can be asked by the judges. Based on a combination of the brief, the presentation and the garden itself, the garden is closely inspected and the judges decide what standard the garden has achieved for each of the nine criteria, eg ‘Excellent’ for Construction. There is a corresponding mark associated with each standard, so ’Excellent’ is awarded four marks, ‘Very Good’ three marks.

The marks are tallied and the overall score generates a medal recommendation.

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Judging (Monday 23 May 2016)

The three assessing judges are joined by the four judges to create a judging panel of seven.

The panel visit each completed garden and review the medal recommendation having read the client’s brief and the assessment notes in advance. If there is any disagreement regarding the standard achieved for a criterion as indicated by the assessing judges, further discussions are held. The entire judging panel then vote on the standard achieved for each of the nine criteria and the corresponding number of points is totalled to determine the final medal to be awarded.

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Moderation (Monday 23 May 2016)

The judging panel is accompanied by a moderator – an experienced judge who ensures that the panel’s application of the set criteria is consistent for each garden. Following a final decision, exhibitors will receive verbal feedback from both the Chair of Judging and the Chair of Assessing Judges, as well as a feedback sheet showing the standard they have achieved for each of of the nine criteria.

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Criteria for judging show gardens

✓ Realisation of client’s brief ✓ Ambition ✓ Overall impression ✓ Design and layout plan of garden ✓ Design, 3D and spatial composition ✓ Construction ✓ Planting design ✓ Plant associations ✓ Planting implementation

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Pro Landscaper presents everything you need to know about the Main Avenue gardens, from veteran Cleve West's ancient oak woodland to natural chalk streams at Rosy Hardy's first show garden and the promise of theatrical tipping hats from Diarmuid Gavin

The M&G Garden

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The main material is western red cedar timber, which is used in the construction of the deck, boardwalks and cabin. It is a natural material that exudes quality. A large re ecti e pool adds a sensor ele ent to the design with connotations of setting sail and drifting away or escaping.

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Sponsor Gardena & Husqvarna Designer Charlie Albone Contractor Conway Landscaping Based in Melbourne, Australia and inspired by the need for more green space in an urban environment, 'Support, a garden in elbo rne o ers a space to relax, re ect and retreat fro the press res and speed of modern day life. A water rill runs around the garden to add movement, setting the tone of the space. A sunken lawn provides a protective space to lie out whilst surrounded by interesting perennials and exotics. Drawing inspiration from its homeland, bluestone cobbles will be feat red, along with a oating cantile ered architectural structure with geometric patterns reminiscent of Melbourne’s Federation Square.

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Sponsor Hartley Botanic Designer Catherine MacDonald Contractor Landform Consultants Ltd & the Landscape Skills Academy

The Hartley Botanic Garden

The focal feature of the Hartley Botanic Garden is a glasshouse structure attached to a walled garden including colourful mixed perennials. It is both a folly and a retreat and houses tropical, aquatic and carnivorous plants. Views of the surrounding woodland can be appreciated and enjoyed from within the glasshouse. Inspiration for the glasshouse to be built emerging from a pool came from Thomas Heatherwick’s Bombay Sapphire heated glasshouses built on the River Test in Hampshire. Around the pool the planting is soft with a gentle colour palette of white, blue and pink, which helps to create a feeling of enclosure.

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Sponsor Harrods Designer Diarmuid Gavin Contractor Diarmuid Gavin Irish garden designer Diarmuid Gavin returns to the show this year with a garden inspired by the creations of the UK’s most imaginative minds, most notably William Heath Robinson. The garden’s central feature is an octagonal tower and a shed that will contain Heath Robinson-inspired gadgets. The back wall of the plot is cloaked by clipped Carpinus in several cartoonish sizes and shapes. The garden contains humour, design integrity, detailed execution and heritage. At the conclusion of the garden’s grand performance it appears to ‘lift its hat’ to the assembled crowds as the roof rises in salute of garden lovers everywhere.

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The Harrods Eccentric British Garden

The octagonal tower is a representation of an elegantly designed red brick home.

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Sponsor LG Electronics Designer Hay Hwang Contractor Siddeleys

LG Smart Garden

This garden is intended to demonstrate that technology can be incorporated harmoniously into the house as well as to enhance the garden, providing additional functionality and convenience. With a mix of herbaceous plants to create a soft and naturalised feel, and a white, pale blue and pale pink colour scheme, the garden is a representation of a ‘Scandinavian lifestyle’ garden. Multi-stemmed trees pro ide pri ac and filter the iews from the house. The design intent is to show the contrasts between formal and informal as well as the balance between nat ralis and the artificial, which in itself is a metaphor for modern life.

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Hay Joung Hwang, rose to fame through her gardens at the Chaumont-sur-Loire International Garden Festival and the 2015 Korean Garden Show where the Mayor of Seoul invited the designer to create a garden.

Sponsor L’Occitane Designer James Basson Contractor Peter Dowle Celebrating L’Occitane’s 40th anniversary by going back to its roots, the beauty of the nat ral landscape is re ected in the gardens. The garden will give the impression that visitors are standing on the edge of a la ender field, loo ing o t on the hills and woodland of Haute Provence.

A gentle stream runs from a stone hut through the middle of the garden before disappearing under a dry stone bridge.

Scent and colour will play an important part and add to the sensorial atmosphere of this garden. here will be di erent plant arieties specific to the partic lar region of Haute Provence, with everything built using one material native to the area.

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The L’Occitane Garden

A young Olivier Baussan, the founder of L’Occitane, found a discarded old steam distiller and started producing essential oils from local rosemary and lavender growers.

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Sponsor Morgan Stanley Designer Chris Beardshaw Contractor Chris Beardshaw Ltd

The Morgan Stanley Garden for Great Ormond Street Hospital

Chris Beardshaw is designing a garden that will be a permanent feature at Great Ormond Street Hospital and will be a private and re ecti e space for parents and fa ilies of the children ndergoing care. he designer is wor ing with a st nning collection of woodland species to create a rich, green and erdant sche e. he planted area will feat re so e species of plants which onl open when hit b direct s nlight. he ain str ct re at the head of the garden was inspired by a Japanese Azumaya pa ilion and is designed in three interloc ing sections. he garden will highlight the e er escence of childhood with poc ets of colo rf l planting.

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Sponsor Royal Bank of Canada Designer Hugo Bugg Contractor i ala an andscaping andscape ssociates Hugo Bugg has partnered with the Royal an of cotland for the second ti e at helsea to create a garden that re ects water as a necessit for both the bod and the ind, with the intention of lea ing isitors pondering abo t the i portance of water globall in an di erent c lt res. he garden s bolises the endangered pine habitat of ibeen in ordan, where gg drew inspiration for the design, b choosing plants that pro e bea tif l ora can exist in arid conditions. he bod of water will be displa ed as sacred, sitting in the centre of the garden and being iewed fro a distance.

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Royal Bank of Canada Garden

Hugo Bugg was the youngest ever winner of a Gold Medal for a large Chelsea show garden at the age of .

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Sponsor The Daily Telegraph Designer Andy Sturgeon Contractor Crocus

The Telegraph Garden

A placid and gentile garden surrounded by a larger more primitive setting, the impression is of a ‘captured landscape’.

The design is inspired by the natural environment, focusing on how the landscape has been forged from numerous geological events over millions of ears. old bron e fins represent an ancient mountain range and are reminiscent of a Stegasaurus’s bony plates. A unique planting scheme to endure and adapt to climate change has been selected from similar habitats of warm, semi-arid regions, highlighting the need to futureproof gardens against the shifting climate.

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The planting scheme is unique, with many of the plants having not been seen before at Chelsea.

Sponsor Qatari Diar Designer Jo Thompson Contractor Landform Consultants Returning for her eighth year, Jo Thompson has designed a traditional British rose garden reimagined for the modern day. Inspired by the heritage of the Chelsea Barracks site neighbouring the Royal Hospital, Jo’s design is prompted by the new development, which features a preserved stained glass Rose Window as its centrepiece from the listed Garrison Chapel. This is referenced in the garden, with roses being the main feature mixed with perennials, and a bronze sculpture will pay tribute to the Barrack’s former residents. The lost River Westbourne which originall owed nder the helsea Barracks will be symbolised through a sculpted stone tidal rill.

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Qatari Diar – The Chelsea Barracks Garden

The garden will be permanently relocated at the Royal British Legion Village in Kent.

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Sponsor Vestra Wealth Designer Paul Martin Contractor Beautiful Horizon Landscape

Vestra Wealth – The Garden of Mindful Living

A contemporary space owned by a busy city client, the garden is designed to be a calm area to rejuvenate after a hard day’s work with inspiration from a love of far eastern travel and yoga. Corten walls and subtle grey splashed limestone give the garden a smart look, with large sliding shutters opening to reveal a sparkling view of the city at night. Large multistemmed trees give dappled shade and s sense of calm is created through the planting, with mainly green foliaged plants from ferns to grasses, and a subtle colour scheme in the damp areas near the water feature of secret rills escaping through blocks of limestone.

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Paul Martin’s largest show garden was at Hampton Court in 2015, for which he played Handel to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the palace.

Sponsor Watahan Designers Chihori Shibiyama & Yano Tea Contractor Landform Consultants Chihori Shibiyama’s debut design at Chelsea with veteran Yano Tea is inspired by their experiences from Japan and England, with both cultures being celebrated for their si ilarities and di erences. et within a city space, the merging of East and est is re ected thro gh the st lings of a Japanese minimalist zen garden alongside a dense informal planting style and mixture of perennials traditionally found in the UK. Two pools of water represent the Atlantic and acific oceans, with the shadows of the plants designed to gently move across the water as the position of the sun changes throughout the day.

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The Watahan East & West Garden

The garden is part of the RHS’s ‘Greening Grey Britain’ campaign, featuring two recycled storage containers as living spaces.

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Sponsor Welcome to Yorkshire Designer Matthew Wilson Contractor Aire Valley Landscaping Services Ltd

God’s Own Country – A Garden for Yorkshire

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Ex-servicemen and women from the Help for Heroes Recovery Centre in Catterick will help create the garden.

Sponsor Winton Capital Designer Nick Bailey Contractor Gardenlink Ltd Bailey has designed a garden that re ects the bea t of athe atics and algorithms, the support all life forms. This focus is inspired by global investment manager Winton Capital. From a copper ball emblematic of the beginning of life, a owing copper band inscribed with plant growth algorithms represents an emerging seedling, perfor ing di erent f nctions throughout the garden including a bench, before ending up as a planter around 3.5m above the ground. The plants selected for the garden are predominantly of the Southern Hemisphere and Mediterranean, many of which display mathematical concepts.

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Inspired by the East Window at York Minister, the largest single expanse of medieval stained glass in Britain, Matthew Wilson has designed a restful, calming environment, with the furniture of a great cathedral. The garden design opens a window of opportunity to celebrate the county. The central area of planting consists of a series of raised beds based on the shape and colour schemes of the panels in the Great East Window. Trees mentioned in the Bible will also feature in the garden. The East Window at York Minister is currently undergoing major restoration and will be revealed in all its glory in 2018.

The Winton Capital Beauty of Mathematics Garden

Nick occasionally indulges himself by checking on Google Earth the gardens he has designed, only to discover recently that one in Canterbury is now a car park.

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Sponsor t ohn’s ospice Designer e a c icar Contractor Crocus

A Modern Apothecary

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t ohn’s ospice in ondon pro ides palliati e care to ore than , ter inall ill patients and their families every year.

Based on conversations with doctors and care professionals, this small, tranquil garden will include plants that ha e a beneficial se to the health and wellbeing of society. Focusing on ‘wellness’, the garden highlights the relationship between medicine and nature whilst being a place for iet re ection and rehabilitation. he experience of natural calm whie walking along the lavender-lined path, toward the water feature, is enhanced by a pair of benches where one can sit, surrounded by scented plants in a place of stillness. he garden will be rec cled to t ohn’s Hospice after the show.

Sponsor rewin olphin Designer Rosy Hardy Contractor Bowles & Wyer Contracts

os ard has created her first e er helsea how arden for rewin olphin arden. fter ears exhibiting in the Floral ar ee and with old edals under her belt, the garden will invite visitors to consider the fragility of a vital natural reso rce chal strea s. hese strea s are under threat from pollution and climate change, with onl in the world, the a orit of which are in ngland. isitors are invited to take a walk through a dried up chalk stream bed towards the source. his s bolises the changing context and form of the landscape, with the sense of loss for the stream balanced by the potential for renewal.

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Brewin Dolphin

One of the very interesting elements of inspiration in os ard ’s garden is the amazing chalk river that runs through her illage it’s the i er est and one of the best examples of a chalk stream.

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Sponsor The Modern Slavery Campaign Designer Juliet Sargeant Contractor The Outdoor Room This garden is a celebration of British parliament passing the Modern Slavery Act in 2015. Its dark centre highlights a hidden reality – people are still being kept in captivity and forced to work in every part of the UK today. Hope comes in the form of an English oak tree and Coprosma ‘Pina Colada’, while Coprosma ‘Lemon and Lime’ is repeated as a linking plant around the garden.

It was under an oak that William Wilberforce stood when he dedicated his life to ending slavery in the 1800s and the original oak is still alive in Sussex.

The Modern Slavery Garden Campaign

In creating the garden, Juliet Sargeant and her team made a commitment to investigate the supply chains of the materials used.

Imperial Garden – To Revive

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Sponsor Imperial Garden Designer Tatyana Goltsova Contractor Gardenlink Ltd A living tree in the centre of the garden represents the transfusion of two worlds; on one side there is primeval nature and on the other a human-created world. Opposite the tree is a sculpture of a young girl in which r nning water brie represents her hair, before owing down and ret rning to the river. Shades of green are the main colours with a pure blue to create an additional tone. Throughout the garden real materials interact with the fra e of artificial lace as living and hand-made worlds intertwine.

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Sponsor GreenWood Forest Park Designer Propagating Dan (Daniel Bristow & Sarah Page) Contractor Mark Wallinger

Propagating Dan – The Garden of Potential

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he garden is set to r e feathers b exhibiting the sometimes scorned golden le landii as well as the aligned field horsetail, Equisetum arvense.

The Garden of Potential is designed to entice its visitors with an unlikely horticultural harmony. Inspiration for the design is varied, from rugged Icelandic to a Buddhist sense of oneness with the use of suburban hedges and weeds. There are a number of playful elements including a path which becomes a fence, almost tipping the visitor into the garden; a ceramic sculpture commissioned by acclaimed artist Jesse Wine, and an elaborate gutter, which architecturally zigzags through the landscape, capturing a rainstorm’s potency into a gurgling rill.

The World Vision Garden Sponsor World Vision Designer John Warland Contractor Garden Builders

The World Vision garden symbolises life’s journeys. Inspired by the lives of children aro nd the world, the oating wa es of turf each represent an individual life. The undulations symbolise how unpredictable and vulnerable life is, especially for children living in places where poverty and disasters strike. But as fear recedes, a crescendo of new hope can be seen rising up in the garden. orifero s nderc rrent of ibrant Tulipa ballerina represents the hope that World Vision brings to children living in fear.

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Designer John Warland also created the Coronation Arch at Windsor Castle.

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Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in London – Honeysuckle Blue

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Designer Claudy Jongstra keeps her own Hortus Botanicus, growing a variety of dye plants to preserve their heritage.

Sponsor The Marble & Granite Centre Designer Martin Cook & Gary Breeze Contractor Chris Holland Landscapes

The design duo is creating a garden within a huge 44t granite cube, representing a world turned inside out. Invisible from the outside apart from through cracks in the stone, the garden will feature plants selected from British woodlands and will symbolise nature’s ability to rejuvenate plant life after destruction, as the cube will be surrounded by a path of ash and charred fencing. The garden inside a sculpture will be a stark contrast between desolation and life, with a mirrored interior and an open top full of planting.

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Sponsor Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in London Designer Claudy Jongstra (with Stefan Jaspers) Contractor Cube 1994

ith artificial d es beco ing ore common, the garden reminds visitors of the age-old process of creating natural dyes using plants. The transformation concept of plant to d e is re ected thro gho t the design, with a spiral featuring at the centre, the universal symbol for development.

Vertical movement throughout the garden and the use of water represents the process of change, with each step being recognised as the next level of design that ends in the essence of the plants, the dye.

The Marble and Granite Centre – Antithesis of Sarcophagi

The granite cube, coming from Portugal, will be one of the largest pieces of stone ever imported into the UK.

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Sponsor Meningitis Now Designer John Everiss Contractor eter regor andscapes ndrew o don hilstone To celebrate the 30th anniversary of charity Meningitis Now, the garden takes inspiration from those who ha e been a ected b the disease. personal to ch has been added thro gh fi e dramatic sculptures of individual survivors of meningitis travelling across the garden, starting with hitting the first wall to cli bing o er the next, with the last illustrating Lauren Booth, a aral pic hopef l. ree the ed foll for s the centrepiece and represents the charity, with a seat bearing the inscription of the charit ’s otto.

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3D scans were made of the featuring survivors which went on to be transfor ed into la inated anadian cedar wood sc lpt res.

A Suffolk Retreat

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Autistic children often see colours with greater intensity and bold colours can feel o erwhel ing. esigner Frederic h te uses a palette of muted colours, including pastel ellows and cool bl es.

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Sponsor ro orda r st Designer Frederic Whyte Contractor Living Landscapes nspired b the for alit of rts and rafts gardens, the garden o ers a secl ded area with a small summerhouse where children and o ng people can engage with sic.

The planting palette of pastel yellows with blue and hints of burgundy is calming, warm and is all sti lating. he ele ents of the garden are made from local materials and b local asters in the age old crafts of int wor and pargetting. t is a soft, traditional space that feels plifting and serene.

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Garage Garden Sponsor ats o td Designer a i shihara Contractor shihara a i esign aborator

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he garden is inspired in part b the designer’s e or of co ing to the ten ears ago and seeing lo ingl aintained anti e cars, which will ne er lea e hi .

he garage and garden are nited in this two tier str ct re where the gro nd oor is sed as a space for a car, special tools and a place for relaxation, and the rooftop for the garden itself. he garden can be en o ed e en b fa ilies with no car, b t for those with a car, the garden f ses its for with that of the ehicle. he car and plants co ple ent each other and nite the garage and garden.

Viking Cruises Sponsor i ing r ises Designer Sarah Eberle Contractor elderbos andscapes garden inspired b the oating gardens in the sil wea ing region of a bodia and the e ong i er. he garden is largel ade p of water, with a s all dec leading to a oating’ lo nger st led on a traditional fishing boat. erhead a cantile ered parasol inspired b traditional fishing nets and sil wea ing pro ides shade. he oating beds follow the st le of the region and contain an eclectic ixt re of fr it and egetables s ch as spinach, ale, a bergine, go rds and o ra, along with owers for c tting within a waterside atrix.

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he garden contains so e , of water and as the beds will act all be oating, planting will be carried o t while standing in the water.

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The Garden Bed Sponsor Asda Designer Alison Doxey & Stephen Welch Contractor Frosts Landscapes

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A collaboration of the joint skills of two lifelong friends, a orist and a landscape architect, the garden has been created as a special exhibit ahead of their 50th birthdays in July.

The design is intended to provide a view of the garden from a hospice patient’s perspecti e. i ing oral displa s located on the bedside table within the hospice bedroom are represented by a ceramic water feature and a selection of trees, including birch, cherry and magnolia set against a lush clipped yew hedge. The garden provides a beautiful and natural setting in which a patient can find their own peace.

Together We Can Sponsor Papworth Trust Designer Peter Eustance Contractor Landform Consultants The theme for this acoustic garden comes from disability charity Papworth Trust working with renowned percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie for its ‘I can’ campaign.

Focusing on the use of natural elements as part of an orchestra, the design features a water marimba with cascading water acting as a musical instrument. The garden is reminiscent of the structure of the ear, with green oak monoliths and solid benches sculpted from logs and precisely sawn York stone set in concentric radial patterns, resembling sound waves.

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Dame Evelyn Glennie will be giving a performance using the garden as percussion instruments at the Gala Preview and also on the 28 May.

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TRADE STANDS Haddonstone

Sitting Spiritually

Haddonstone is celebrating the tercentenary of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown’s birth by formally launching a bust based on Nathaniel Dance’s 1773 portrait. As part of the successful collaboration with the Sir John Soane Museum, Haddonstone will also launch replica busts from the museum of both Shakespeare and Inigo Jones. Haddonstone is a family business that was established in 1971 and has been exhibiting at the Chelsea Flower Show since 1972.

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and hand crafting garden furniture for 12 years. They are regular exhibitors at Chelsea Flower Show and the only bespoke swing and bench makers licensed by the RHS. New for RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016, it is collaborating with Simon Thomas irie onte porar F rnit re on a new range. he oating bench fro the range has been no inated as a finalist in helsea rod ct of the Year 2016 and can be seen on the Sitting Spiritually stand along with the Yakisugi swing seat. Both are made in a combination of nat ral and scorched oa to achie e the distincti e colo r e ect using the Japanese art of scorching timber, known as Yakisugi.

John Deere

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ri n lassho ses creates bespoke aluminium glasshouses for gardeners in the UK and internationally.

With more than 50 years’ experience in the industry, the fa il r n b siness o ers a range of low maintenance, unique design glassho ses. he a orit of its designs re ect the specialist features that were common in structures created in the Victorian era. On display at the Chelsea Flower Show will be a ri n glassho se with a porch, cold frames, bench, shelf, internal water tank and shading. The stand will also feature a very small Victorian glasshouse with two folding benches.

The John Deere stand will feature lawn tractors and robotic mowers.

Launched for 2016, the X350R lawn tractor features a newly designed 42in mower deck. The deep bod and at top ens res a clean ow of grass clippings for excellent c t alit e en in di c lt long grass. Simple to operate, with easily adjustable height of cut and cruise control, the X350R is suitable for areas of grass up to 8,000m2. The next generation Tango robotic mower maintains your lawn automatically, in any weather. Tango’s powerful battery enables it to cover grass areas up to 2200m2, mowing within an easily installed concealed boundary wire.

Grass clippings go straight back into the lawn as fertiliser.

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A selection of trade stands exhibiting at this year's event

Horatio’s Garden

Stand EA514

Bartlett Tree Experts

Stand PW391

Horatio’s Garden, the charity that builds gardens in NHS spinal injury centres, has teamed up with Nelsons, the UK's leading provider of natural healthcare products, to bring a charity stand to the Chelsea Flower Show. The show will be an opportunity for the charity to talk about its work and fundraise for the next Horatio’s Garden at the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Horatio’s Garden will also be showcasing its range of high quality merchandise on the stand. The artist’s impression of the charity’s stand, painted

by Horatio’s Garden artist Lucy Bentley, shows the design which includes planting by Cleve West – his smallest ever Chelsea Garden.

artlett ree xperts is a scientific tree care company based at o ces across the and Ireland. The company has been established since , and o ers arboricultural services including all aspects of tree surgery, planting, pest and disease control, consultancy, surveying, safety assessments, and woodland and hedgerow management. Bartlett's stand at the helsea Flower how this ear will be raising the profile of so e potential pest and disease threats that co ld be a ecting tree populations in the near future, and providing advice on how to protect trees for future generations.

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Schellevis

Stand FR324

Hartley Botanic

Stand MA432

The Schellevis stand this year is designed to showcase the variety of e ects its ersatile pa ing and landscaping products can achieve.

The upper level represents an urban landscape, evoking the spaces between the high rises of Canary Wharf and the city, while the lower is based on a gravel garden with clusters of plants, sculptures and trees.

Amongst the gravel are plank pavers which lead the way to large cantilever steps created by the Schellevis oversized slabs. The upper level will feature large unit paving and wall cladding, as well as blocks used as seating and plinths for artwork.

Hartley Botanic has remained synonymous with enduring style and excellence for over 75 years, hand-making greenhouses to order in reenfield, ngland. ew at RHS Chelsea Flower Show for 2016 is the Opus 8 greenhouse 2489 x 3099mm, with a traditional pitched roof, built on a dwarf wall and perfect for the smaller garden. Alongside this will be two popular Hartley glasshouses, namely the Victorian Villa and the Victorian Planthouse – all models will be powder coated in olive leaf.

Landform Consultants are building and planting the stand.

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