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ello, welcome to the Pro Landscaper RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019 supplement.

Chelsea is such a fantastic show and it’s always inspiring to see the hard work that goes into it. Working on this supplement has really highlighted what a great event this year is set to be, and I can’t wait to attend my first-ever Chelsea.

The big talking point surrounding this year’s show has been the RHS Back to Nature garden, a collaboration between Davies White and HRH The Duchess of Cambridge. On pages 6–7 you can read our exclusive interview with Davies White about this garden. Two gardens in particular have also been hitting the headlines this year for their sponsors; we talk to Joe Perkins on page 9 about working with Facebook and Jilayne Rickards on page 12

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Earlier in the year some of you kindly answered our RHS Chelsea Flower Show poll and we would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who took the time to do so.

The results are in and they gave us an interesting insight into what the industry thinks of Chelsea and how they would like to see it change. You can see these results displayed on pages 4 and 5.

Enjoy the supplement, and I hope to see you at the show!

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SURVEY SAYS PRO LANDSCAPER CREATED A SURVEY TO FIND OUT WHAT THE INDUSTRY THINKS ABOUT DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF THE RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW. THE RESULTS PROVIDE AN INSIGHT INTO WHAT THE INDUSTRY THINKS AND WHAT COULD BE CHANGED AND OR IMPROVED

What is your profession?

Garden designer – 55% Contractor – 13.7% Landscape architect – 6.6% Supplier – 10% Other – 14.7% Answered: 211 Unanswered:1

Have you visited the RHS Chelsea Flower Show before?

Yes – 91.5% No – 8.5% Answered: 211 Unanswered:1

If yes, do you leave feeling inspired?

Always – 32.5% Usually – 33.5% Sometimes – 20.1% Rarely – 5.7% Never – 0% N/A – 8.1% Answered: 209 Unanswered:3

Is the new Space to Grow category a good replacement of the Fresh category?

Yes – 35.6% No – 10.4% Maybe – 20.9% I don’t know – 33.2% Answered: 211 Unanswered:1

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Are there enough female designers each year?

Yes – 26.2% No – 30.5% Maybe – 21.9% I don’t know – 21.4% Answered:210 Unanswered:2

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Do you think this has changed over the last couple of years?

Should there be more recognition for nurseries which supply the show gardens?

Yes – 72% No – 8.5% Maybe – 17.5% I don’t know – 1.9% Answered: 211 Unanswered: 1

Do contractors receive enough recognition at Chelsea?

Yes – 47.4% No – 10.5% Maybe – 18.7% I don’t know – 23.4%

Yes – 11% No – 77.6% Maybe – 7.6% I don’t know – 3.8%

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The number of female designers has risen – 53.3% The number of female designers has dropped – 1.9% N/A – 44.8%

Should more be done to encourage elements of the gardens to be reused after the show?

Yes – 89.6% No – 3.3% Maybe – 6.2% I don’t know – 1% Answered: 211 Unanswered:1

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A ROYAL COLLABORATION PRO LANDSCAPER SPOKE TO ANDRÉE DAVIES AND ADAM WHITE, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AND DIRECTORS OF DAVIES WHITE LTD, ABOUT THE RHS BACK TO NATURE GARDEN THEY’VE DESIGNED ALONGSIDE HRH THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE

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n September 2018, Andrée and Adam were approached by the RHS and asked if they would like to put themselves forward to co-design the 2019 RHS Garden alongside HRH The Duchess of Cambridge at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

The RHS had invited The Duchess to design their garden at the world famous flower show.

It was important to The Duchess and the RHS that the garden would highlight the physical and mental health benefits of the great outdoors, and inspire children, families and communities to get back to nature. The first meetings involved the three designers developing a brief together and sharing their own memories of spending time in nature.

This led to the creation of a mood board of ideas and images which soon formed the early concept design ideas and working scale

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models. Visits to parks, gardens and woodlands followed to look for further inspiration as the design developed. Most recently, the visits have been to suppliers and to meet specialist craftspeople.

Inspiration for the garden Step into the garden amongst the wild trees and shrubs and get your nature fix. Feel instantly relaxed as nature surrounds you and works its magic to refresh and calm. Inspired by nature and natural woodland, the playful planting includes incredible edibles, plants for craft activities, forest scents and a diverse

range of plants from tiny wild strawberries to magnificent trees overhead. Unstructured ‘free play’ is important for a child’s development and play in nature has been shown to be especially good for developing creativity, increasing physical activity and reducing stress.

The books Nature Fix (Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative) by Florence Williams, Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv and Lost Words by Robert McFarlane (illustrated by Jackie Morris) were also inspiration for the garden.

Planting The most important function is the ability of plants to enrich the experience in the natural world of a child where plants provide sensory stimulation, produce shade, and attract interesting visitors from the animal kingdom.

The cool calm colour palette of green and blue is restful on the eyes, beautiful textures of large and small leaves draw your attention and lead you on a journey through the garden. The plants will look wild and natural; trees will have low branches that are full of character; plants with single open flowers will represent their wild relations, and there will be an emphasis on texture and shape, with everything looking relaxed and wild in style. The plants will also provide food for wildlife – flowers, fruits, seeds and nectar for bees – as well as nesting sites for

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Cambridge will utilise the plants, trees, materials and play features seen throughout the show gardens.

birds, and cover for other animals to hide in the garden. Incredible edibles include fruit trees and nut trees, plants for craft, willow weaving and leaf pressing.

for child play, floating leaves on its surface or chasing them. Playing with water is a great sensory experience, encouraging exploration and concentration. The waterfall will be accessible to all, including less able people or wheelchair users.

A playful pathway, made of reclaimed timber, will create a journey through the garden; its surface full of natural colours and textures. It will weave through the garden, around rocks and stepping stones and through the planting. Children can run through the garden or balance from one stepping stone to the next. The rocks also create a place to sit, rest and enjoy the view, the level smooth surface will make the garden welcoming and accessible to all.

Key features The garden includes a beautifully crafted hollow log for children to walk along and test their balancing ability, or crawl inside and relax for a few minutes. A den building will The garden’s legacy also feature in the garden as a perfect place Following RHS Chelsea, the garden will be for children to develop their creative skills and reimagined into a new garden design for RHS test out their building ingenuity. It will be an Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival in July opportunity to work together in teams and 2019. This new garden will retain the character solve problems, to create a den for role and planting style of the RHS Chelsea play activities or camping under garden but will be enhanced with the stars – complete with more playful features and a campfire for toasting opportunities for all It was important to marshmallows. the family to get Also featured as the active outdoors.

The Duchess and the centrepiece of the After RHS Chelsea, RHS that the garden would garden will be a tree some of the planting will promote the proven benefits house, constructed be relocated to form a from a beautiful new garden designed by that nature has on physical natural tree with Davies White at an NHS and mental health a high platform clad in Mental Health Trust. This branches. Random and will be part of the RHS’s irregular, it will look like an partnership with NHS England animal has built its home up in the promoting the health and wellbeing tree. A swing seat, hanging from the benefits of gardening. Following RHS Hampton branches, completes the perfect place Court Palace, a nature play garden at RHS for children and families to play together.

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“We are delighted to be working with The Outdoor Room to bring the RHS Back to Nature Garden to life at RHS Chelsea this May. A special thank you also needs to go to the various garden supporters who are contributing materials, plants, trees, products and specialist labour. The list includes artists Richard Carman and Josh Knowles, Ashwell Recycled Timber Products Ltd, CED Stone & Aggregates Ltd, Jonny Anderson Stone Masonry, Jonny Briggs Carpentry, Tendercare Nurseries Ltd, Touchwood Play Ltd, Palmstead Nurseries Ltd, Wild Hart Ltd and Philips Hue Lighting from Signify.”

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FACEBOOK UPDATES ITS STATUS FEATURING IN THE SPACE TO GROW CATEGORY, THE BEYOND THE SCREEN GARDEN IS BEING SPONSORED BY FACEBOOK – A FIRST FOR CHELSEA. SUSSEX DESIGNER JOE PERKINS EXPLAINS HOW THE SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY HAS INFLUENCED THE DESIGN

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t’s undeniable that social media is now part of most people’s everyday lives.

As its popularity grows, so too does the controversy surrounding it, and Facebook is no stranger to this. However, the world’s largest social media platform is sponsoring Joe Perkins’ Beyond The Screen garden at this year’s show in a bid to promote the positive effects that social media can have on our lives.

Inspired by family holidays to the Basque Country in northern Spain, Joe’s garden will represent our connection with social media through its coastal environment – this strong theme of connectivity runs throughout the

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garden. Joe says: “We are all connected physiologically with the ocean as we are all made up of 60% water and because oceans connect the whole world.”

Joe contacted Facebook with his idea, and the social media giant was immediately on board. Together, the aim is to challenge preconceptions about what social media is and to make people appreciate the benefits of using these platforms.

Beyond The Screen has come under scrutiny, though. Facebook has been accused of using the garden to revive its tarnished reputation after the Cambridge Analytica scandal last year. It was revealed that the data

of millions of Facebook users was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, resulting in share prices of the company plummeting and users becoming even more wary of the platform. The company is also facing criticism for the irony of it sponsoring a garden, as children reportedly spend less time outdoors, instead scrolling through their timeline on sites such as Facebook.

However, Joe points out how Facebook has a positive impact on the landscaping industry.

“There are more than 1.5 million gardening enthusiasts in the UK who are part of a Facebook group that shares knowledge and enthusiasm for the subject,” he says.

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He goes on to explains how Swedish schoolgirl and climate activist, Greta Thunberg was able to create a social movement on Facebook, engaging people around the world with the aim of raising awareness over climate change: in more than 112 countries, children walked out of their classrooms to protest – a demonstration which arguably would have had less impact without the impact and reach of Facebook as a platform for change.

Facebook sponsorship aside, the garden itself is striking with water being a predominant element that features across a third of the surface area of the rugged and naturalistic space. Layered formations of stone, supplied by CED Stone Group, will also be a key feature. Reclaimed timber from Ashwells Timber will be used for decking.

Weathered and covered with barnacles, the timber will be hung over the water, adding to the garden’s authentic look.

The garden will also feature a copper wave shaped canopy, created by Hot Metal Engineering, designed to arch over the top of the garden.

The copper metal work links into the theme of connectivity, as it is known for being a good conductor.

Plants from all around the world, including New Zealand to Mexico, will include Pistachia lentiscus, Leucophyta, Sedum palmeri and Aeonium arboretum, some of which supplied by Kelways and Deepdale Trees.

The garden will be built by The Outdoor Room and Joe is also working in partnership with Groundwork, a national charity who helps young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Ambassadors from the charity will accompany Joe on trips prior to the show to see the plants, stone and metal being made.

They will then join Joe and The Outdoor Room on site to assist with the build.

Not only does the garden aim to promote how social media can be used in a positive way, it will also, hopes Joe, inspire people to be creative in a small outdoor spaces.

Joe explains: “The garden is about taking inspiration from whatever you find. In this case it’s a natural coastal environment that inspired me personally and I want people to go away and find their own inspiration, then recreate it for themselves.”

Water will make up a third of the surface area of this rugged and naturalistic space

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JILAYNE RICKARDS IS COLLABORATING WITH CAMFED, A NON-PROFIT ORGANISATION DEDICATED TO ERADICATING POVERTY IN AFRICA THROUGH THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG WOMEN, ON THE GIVING GIRLS IN AFRICA A SPACE TO GROW GARDEN

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orking on a show garden can be incredibly stressful, and for London designer Jilayne Rickards, a garden that expresses an important message is worth the stress involved. Established in 1993, CAMFED (Campaign for Female Education) and its innovative education programmes in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania and Malawi directly support more than 2.6 million students to attend primary and secondary school, and more than 5 million children have benefited from an improved learning environment with more than 120,000 supported into leadership positions.

Jilayne first heard about CAMFED through a personal friend, professor Charlotte Watts, who as chief scientific adviser to the UK Department of International Development (DFID) helped source the biofortified crops and solar technologies featured in the garden. These have been produced through UK Aid’s investment in low cost technologies that deliver development benefits. Jilayne quickly identified with the work of CAMFED and in February 2018 the organisation agreed to sponsor the garden.

Aligned with CAMFED’s #SeeGrowth campaign, the garden aims to raise £120,000 to support the next 1,000 female-led horticultural and agricultural businesses in sub-Saharan Africa.

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FEATURE Research began when Jilayne travelled to Zimbabwe to see CAMFED’s work in action as well as the country’s culture and landscape. During the trip she met Beauty Gombana, a remarkable woman, born into a world that offered her few choices.

CAMFED supported Beauty’s further education, and thus enabled her to begin her own agricultural business – a successful and progressive enterprise that grows biofortified Authentic planting crops, and a business that invests in solar According to Jilayne: “We are using true energy. Beauty employs a number of people representations of the kind of plants that from her community helping to alleviate people such as Beauty herself would use in poverty in the area.

Africa.” Because of the differences between Says Jilayne: “Inspiration for the garden the UK and African climates, sourcing a grower came from what Beauty was doing, coupled had its obvious challenges. Cornwall’s Eden with CAMFED’S dedication to Project is growing the majority of the educating girls and making a required plants and crops and change to poverty and People and Gardens, a charity inequality through who support people with The garden promises to education. These severe learning difficulties two aspects are its entering a career in be bold and vibrant and real foundation”. horticulture, are growing reflects the spirit of positivity, some of them on site at Big and bold ideas while making use of recycled the Eden Project.

In true African style, the Some of the larger plants, and upcycled items garden promises to be such as a large orange tree, bold and vibrant and reflect banana, lemon, lime and the spirit of positivity, utilising grapefruit standards and an recycled and upcycled items. The unusual Carissa are being imported design is a typical Zimbabwean classroom, from Alicante. complete with an African drum, gourd shakers, colourful Kanga gowns, school books and Creating awareness woven baskets. Accessories have been The aim of the garden is to spread the sourced from eBay, auctions and markets with message of keeping girls in education in some items reclaimed from skips. CED Stone Africa, while both supporting and raising Group have donated rocks for the project, CAMFED’s profile as well as the work of the while a solar panel, pump, small irriagtion #SeeGrowth campaign. system, lights and study lamps have been donated by FuturePump.

The garden will showcase a 2m x 2m growing bed which features an effective and sustainable water management system, designed to allow water to flow beneath rather than across the top of the bed, reducing evaporation and thus conserving the water.

The interior of the bed will be divided in four and make use of a crop rotation system to maximise the yield. This is a concept that Jilayne believes is affordable to construct and an idea that visitors to the garden can take home and recreate themselves.

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“We are creating the garden to raise awareness of the charity’s work, not just to the individual but to entire communities, and how this work tackles both poverty and inequality,” explains Jilayne.

The garden is multi-layered in its approach with this important message at its core. It is developmental with its inclusion of biofortified crops, beans, maize and sweet potatoes, as well as the water management system and solar power. These elements highlight positive change and progressiveness in Africa.

Jilayne comments: “People tend to think that poverty in Africa prohibits progress, but on the contrary, with a just a little assistance, it can affect a truly progressive outlook.”

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Team spirit This is the first time Jilayne has designed a garden for Chelsea on her own, but she insists that she really is simply part of a great team: “CAMFED has played a large part in the work, helping to source materials from Zimbabwe, while Charlotte has provided useful feedback.

The Eden Project has been an excellent resource for checking the plant content and growing an impressive array of unusual plants.

Cormac Conway from Conway Landscapes has been very helpful and always up for a challenge.

It has been liberating working as part of a team and I am really enjoying it, it’s great!”

After the show, the Giving Girls In Africa a Space To Grow garden will be donated to the Eden Project and continue to create awareness of CAMFED. Jilayne hopes her work with the organisation continues as well. “We’ve come this far, I can’t imagine that we wouldn’t continue. It is such a great organisation and I believe it can make a huge difference – who wouldn’t want to support it?”.

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2016’S 30 UNDER 30 WINNER, ROSS CONQUEST AND HIS TEAM AT CONQUEST CREATIVE SPACES, WILL BE WORKING ON TWO SHOW GARDENS THIS YEAR – THE ROOTS IN FINLAND KYRÖ GARDEN AND THE PERENNIAL LIFELINE GARDEN

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ROSS CONQUEST Do you think it will be challenging to work on two gardens?

It’s all about the planning! We are so lucky to be involved with two very exciting and different projects. Working on two gardens this year does have benefits – not having to manage projects in Sussex at the same time allows us to utilise the whole build team and focus fully on the show.

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Can you tell us more about the Roots in Finland Kyrö garden?

Working alongside designer Taina Suonio has been great and good fun – very Finnish! I am proud to be working with the first Finnish designer to come to Chelsea, as well as on the first Finnish garden. The garden has clean Nordic lines with a traditional feel which represents the natural countryside of Finland brought into an urban setting.

For us, the challenging part of the project is creating the big lifts which will be the water feature wall – an impressive 1.8 x 2m installation designed to cascade onto a stainless steel mirror, as well as the grand pair of 3m solid granite benches from Finnish stone supplier Loimaan Kivi.

So far, what progress have you made on both gardens?

We have completed a mock-up of the Perennial garden with some APL apprentices and a structural planting set out at Majestic Trees.

All the steel and timber framework will soon be ready to hand over to Stark & Greensmith and London Stone for final completion.

We have also carried out some pre-fabrication work for the timber frames, bespoke steel screen structures, stone cantilever benches and the huge water reel.

For The Roots in Finland Kyrö Garden, we have been working on the stainless steel waterfall, which includes some clever concealed gadgetry, as well as checking all the paving details, such as the jointing methods and so on. The list of other details we check is endless and all this goes on alongside meetings with sponsors, nurseries and other suppliers of course.

Can you tell us more about the Perennial Lifeline Garden?

Colm Joseph’s and Duncan Cargill’s winning design with the London College of Garden Design is located in the Great Pavilion and will feature a rose meadow, freestanding metal screens, stone and topiary columns, a pair of modern fountains and a rill running through the whole plot. It is a pleasure to be working with the team at Perennial

What are you most looking forward to?

Flying the flag for Sussex at Chelsea this year with James Coleman from Designs by Sussex Landscapes and Will Burberry from Radial Landscapes. It’s the buzz of Chelsea that we enjoy. Personally, I get such an adrenaline rush from it, and all being well this year I’ll enjoy it twice as much, running two very interesting projects. We will just have to wait and see!

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on this project and through our involvement with the APL, we will combine some of the UK’s best talent on the build and give the next generation of young apprentices some much valued experience.

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LILLY GOMM ONE OF 2017’S 30 UNDER 30: THE NEXT GENERATION WINNERS, LILLY GOMM REVEALS HOW IT FEELS TO BE MAKING HER CHELSEA DEBUT. THIS YEAR SHE WILL BE DESIGNING THE HILLIER NURSERIES EXHIBIT ‘THE STIHL HILLIER GARDEN’, UNDER THE MENTORSHIP OF SARAH EBERLE WHO HAS DESIGNED THE EXHIBIT SINCE 2016 THE STIHL HILLIER GARDEN How did you come to work on the Hillier Nurseries exhibit?

Last year I volunteered to work with the Hillier planting team and loved it. I was made to feel incredibly welcome and thought volunteering had been such a worthwhile experience.

I didn’t expect to hear from them again so when they got in touch and asked if I would design their next exhibit I was quite shocked.

I said yes straight away – I never expected that as a result of just five days planting!

Can you tell us more about the design of the exhibit?

The garden will blend together traditional and contemporary themes making reference to the Hillier ethos of bringing new generations into the horticultural industry.

Presenting traditional Hillier plants, hardy perennials, shrubs and trees, against contemporary hard landscaping. There will be two rooms set within the exhibit – the first, a formal dining area and the other, less formal, somewhere to have your morning cup of coffee. Each room will include water installations as a backdrop to enhance the sense of relaxation.

The plants are the stars of the exhibit and this year will be taking the opportunity to play with colour. The variety at Hillier Nurseries is a designer’s dream – rather like being a kid in a sweet shop. We’ve had to grow around 5,000

plants even though we will end up using only 3,000 of them because we can never tell how spring will affect the growing year.

The extra plants won’t go to waste though, they will be sold in their garden centres.

The plants are the stars of the exhibit, and the variety at Hillier Nurseries is a designer’s dream

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How has Sarah helped mentor you?

Sarah has been brilliant, a Chelsea veteran herself she is full of worthwhile advice and it has been so helpful to discuss the design over these past months. Having a long standing relationship with Hillier, for someone fresh to the company hearing her experience has been invaluable. The advice to take moments alone on site to scrutinise the previous days work is one I will be taking forward - allowing yourself the time to think clearly before the rush of people arrive.

What do you think the greatest challenge will be?

I think the greatest challenge will be completing everything on site in the limited time available. We have five days to plant and then just over one week to build.

I think installing the water features will demand most of our time. We have factored this in, but I still think time will be reasonably tight. We also need to make allowances for cleaning, pruning and all those important final finishing touches.

How does it feel to be working on your first ever Chelsea garden?

Incredibly exciting! It’s a great opportunity for me and I’m so grateful to be a part of it.

I can’t wait to get on site and really enjoy the camaraderie of working as a team, preparing for the show.

The STIHL Hillier Garden will be located inside the Great Pavilion.

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MARK FANE CROCUS The Resilience Garden Building a garden for Chelsea is never easy. This is Crocus’s 29th garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and this year is no different in terms of complexity and the attention to detail. For the Resilience Garden, we’re bringing a huge range of plant and tree species together. This includes large mature trees, such as monkey puzzle and ginkgo, and it’s quite a task putting them in place. The centrepiece is a 7m tall grain silo, which doubles up as the designer’s office. Needless to say, there’s a lot of work involved moving that around!

Family Monsters Garden Without quoting the typical Chelsea challenge of space and access – the hardest part of our show will be the no excavations policy in the Artisan area. We’re using some big tree – the consequence of which is the garden will already be 400mm higher before we start, thereby creating a false experience. We’ve had to modify the build and levels so as members of the public can experience it as close to how they would if everything was consistent with the show ground level.

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DAVID NEALE The Silent Pool Gin Gardens That would definitely be the central structure which we will be building from scratch. This will involve eight flitch beams spanning 7m across, four steel pillars, three tonnes of materials and a waterproof membrane, allowing us to be able to install 50–75mm of water and planting on top. Not forgetting the 3m wide attached perspex etched water wall! All of this is to be built around a 7-8m tall Betula nigra (River Birch) that needs to be placed in the ground first of all.

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The Savills and David Harber Garden I think this year it will be logistics and making sure everything gets there on time. With the current uncertainty surrounding imports, all materials are sourced locally, except for the stone, which could be a bit of a headache. Other obstacles to overcome are transport restrictions on the approach road, restrictions on plant imports and, finally, the new low emission zone came into force on 8 April. The showground is out of this zone, but it will affect deliveries coming in from the north.

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HIGHLIGHTS

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GREAT PAVILION IKEA and Tom Dixon: Gardening Will Save The World

Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants is returning for the 27th year. this year it will be launching three new exciting, long-flowering perennials: Digitalis ‘Firebird’, Salvia ‘Amethyst Lips’ and Dianthus ‘Cherry Burst’. All three plants will be available for visitors to buy at the show.

Hillier Nurseries Designed by first-time Chelsea designer Lily Gomm, ‘The Stihl Hillier Garden’ returns to Chelsea and this year’s garden blends together traditional and contemporary themes. Read more about this year’s Hillier garden in our interview with Lily Gomm on page 15.

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DESIGNER TOM DIXON CONTRACTOR BESPOKE OUTDOOR SPACES SPONSOR IKEA For the first time in its history, Chelsea will feature a judged show garden in The Great Pavilion.

Visitors will enjoy a fully interactive show garden, arranged on two levels.

An elevated structure allows guests to appreciate the design from multiple viewpoints. The garden aims to demonstrate how

we can provide sustainable and affordable ways to grow food in our own homes and in the community.

The base garden is a horticultural laboratory where hydroponic technology is used to grow hypernatural edibles.

The raised garden is a botanic oasis which will encourage visitors to immerse themselves in a

Perennial

Perennial This year’s Perennial garden, ‘The Perennial Lifeline Garden’, is being designed by first-time Chelsea garden designers Colm Joseph and Duncan Cargill. The designers were chosen following a competition run jointly by Perennial and The London College of Garden Design. Inspired by Sir Roy Strong’s The Laskett Gardens, it is being built by Conquest Creative Spaces – find out more in our interview with Ross Conquest on Page 14.

canopy like ecosystem of trees, flowers and plants with medicinal, health and environmental benefits.

National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies Fun and friendship through the love of flowers has always been the ethos for the National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies (NAFAS) since its inception 60 years ago. An educational charity, NAFAS has competed at the show since the 1970s, winning many gold medals along the way and this year it hopes to add one more. In celebration of its 60th year, the NAFAS team has chosen the theme: ‘diamonds are forever’ and have planned an innovative, exciting and contemporary exhibit, featuring plant material from home and abroad.

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The M&G Garden DESIGNER: ANDY STURGEON CONTRACTOR: CROCUS SPONSOR: M&G INVESTMENTS M&G Investments is the title sponsor of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year, and its garden celebrates nature’s incredible ability to regenerate and colonise many landscapes with new growth. Seventime gold medal-winning designer Andy Sturgeon was inspired by rock formations on an Australian beach.

The vibrant and luscious design showcases a biodiverse range of curious and pioneering species with many making their first appearance at Chelsea.

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Among the trees and plants featured in the garden are primordial Equisetum and Restios, which give the garden an ancient quality. Adding to the vibrant and lusciously green environment are Nothofagus antarctica, Carpinus betulus, Gunnera killipiana, Arisaema speciosum, and Disporopsis bodinieri, all of which are able to grow and thrive in a British climate.

Immense sculptures, fashioned by British craftsman Johnny Woodford, have been made from 50 tonnes of sustainable burnt oak timber, embodying ancient rock formations and contrasting with the textures of the diverse planting. Small pools run alongside a staircase of ironside platforms, reflecting the regenerative theme of growth and creation even further.

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This is the ninth year that M&G Investments has sponsored the show and is secured as sponsors until 2020.

M&G also supports the RHS Greening Grey Britain campaign

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The Resilience Garden DESIGNER: SARAH EBERLE CONTRACTOR: CROCUS SPONSOR: THE FORESTRY COMMISSION

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The Greenfingers Charity Garden DESIGNER: KATE GOULD CONTRACTOR: KATE GOULD GARDENS SPONSOR: GREENFINGERS CHARITY Promoting the work of Greenfingers Charity – who create gardens for hospices around the UK for life-limited children and their families to enjoy – Kate will be making her debut on Main Avenue with this fun and interactive garden, her tenth show garden. To celebrate the charity’s 20th anniversary, the design will promote its invaluable work as well as the benefits of outdoor spaces.

This garden includes a lift system and sloped walkways which will ensure all ages and abilities have access to each of its levels.

The garden includes lots of places to relax, with a hanging chair in the shape of an apple adding a sense of fun, as well as porotherm bricks creating privacy, shade and interesting shadows.

The inventive design highlights the therapeutic importance of engaging with the natural environment, with lush green topiary and Dicksonia, pines, yellow and white lupins, Cotinus and Choisya ‘Greenfingers’ used within the planting scheme.

Marking the past 100 years of forestry, this garden looks at the future of forests, the big challenges they will face and how we can help them The Forestry become more resilient. Sarah Commission is Eberle’s design draws on trialling different tree inspiration from the species from around revolutionary William the world to find out Robinson who was a strong how they fair in forestry advocate, pioneer in diverse climatic experimental planting and conditions. Once visionary in the creation of planted, the saplings wild, natural gardens. are monitored over Set in an outdoor farm decades and the workshop, natural materials results of these trials are used to create a rural will shape which trees setting such as boulders, are planted to create stone and gravel. A farmyard forests of the future grain silo sits in the centre, representing a designer’s office. The trees and plants have been selected for their resilience to possible changing climate conditions and are a mixture of both native and exotic species. Among these species will be Araucaria Araucana which is known to tolerate any soil type and Ginkgo biloba found in fossils dating back millions of years.

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The Morgan Stanley Garden DESIGNER: CHRIS BEARDSHAW CONTRACTOR: CHRIS BEARDSHAW LTD SPONSOR: MORGAN STANLEY

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The Welcome to Yorkshire Garden

DESIGNER: MARK GREGORY CONTRACTOR: LANDFORM CONSULTANTS LTD SPONSOR: WELCOME TO YORKSHIRE Last year Mark Gregory worked on Welcome to Yorkshire’s most successful garden to date, scooping up a Gold Medal, the People’s Choice Award and the prize for Best Construction. For Welcome to Yorkshire’s 10th Chelsea Garden, Mark will encapsulate the industrial roots and heritage of West Yorkshire, whilst also demonstrating the tranquillity of a working lock.

An authentically built canal with reclaimed masonry The garden will feature walling, canal sides and two pairs of genuine lock genuine canal gates will gates gifted by the Canal be the focal feature of & River Trust. The lock gates the garden, with weighing approximately two volunteers from the tonnes each, were once used Canal & River Trust on Britain’s highest navigable brining their expert waterway, The Huddersfield knowledge and advice Narrow Canal to the build.

Chris Beardshaw will be working with Morgan Stanley for a fifth consecutive year with the garden demonstrating how to sensitively manage resources whilst creating luscious, herbaceous-rich borders.

All the plants for this garden are being grown in 100% recyclable taupe plastic pots, whilst the compost used is generated from salvaged, water washed minerals and garden waste.

More than 2,000 herbaceous perennials are being grown, including pink Camassia, lupins, Gillenia and Amsonia and these will work to create rich borders at the front of the garden.

Large Taxus domes will break up the formal, linear terrace, while the straight lines of the path After this year’s show, the gradually fragment, gardens collectively will leading towards have benefitted eight two contemporary different communities relaxation ponds. The across London, replanting main focal point, more than 15,000 plants, however, is a pine tree 23 trees, 86m of hedging, which has been and repurposing 125 dramatically blown into square metres of paving a 30 degree angle.

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A charming lock keepers lodge will sit to the side of the lock amongst a colourful garden and vegetable patch, while a towpath runs next to a perennial meadow on the other side. The planting will celebrate a mixture of native flora alongside cultivated varieties.

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The Dubai Majlis Garden

DESIGNER: THOMAS HOBLYN CONTRACTOR: LANDFORM CONSULTANTS LTD SPONSOR: DUBAI

The Dubai Majlis Garden takes inspiration from The Majlis concept cherished in the Middle East.

With no proper seating or fixed routes round the garden, visitors are encouraged to use the space however they desire, encouraging visitors of all ages, cultures, and social backgrounds to meet with open minds.

It is designed to reflect the sculptural beauty in arid landscapes, with white limestone and contrasting burnt sienna gravel. The space incorporates fluvially eroded rock wind-blown sand dunes and topiary-esque plants whilst a water source seemingly connects an oasis style pool, providing a calm, meditative atmosphere.

The colour scheme will mimic arid habitats with yellowy greens from Santolina pinnata subsp. neapolitana ‘Sulphurea’ through to burnt oranges from Artemisia arborescens, contrasting with blues from Sarcopoterium spinosum and Bulbine frutescens.

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A Majlis is a ‘a place of sitting’ where community members gather to socialise, be entertained and discuss local events, issues and news

Creating his first show garden this year, Andrew Duff’s design will showcase the benefits and beauty of trees, plants and grasses in urban spaces.

Andrew wanted the The mature trees selected garden to include Carpinus betulus, represent a Acer campestre and Alnus clearing in the glutinosa. The large woods, with reflective pool is lined with steps leading leaves from these trees, as down to a found in a woodland pool reflective pool where a 3.5m shard seemingly floats on the surface, reaching high into the trees.

Designed and created by David Harber, the sculpture will play with the light, creating patterns on the water.

Endorsed by the Environmental Change Institute, this garden boasts a variety of sustainable features.

These range from a green wall which will filter pollution from the air to a filtration pool, which will clean grey water and store it via a water harvesting system.

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The Savills and David Harber Garden DESIGNER: ANDREW DUFF CONTRACTORS: DAN FLYNN, GARDENLINK SPONSORS: SAVILLS AND DAVID HARBER

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The Trailfinders ‘Undiscovered Latin America’ Garden DESIGNER: JONATHAN SNOW CONTRACTOR: STEWART LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION SPONSOR: TRAILFINDERS

Jonathan Snow is returning to Main Avenue this year, drawing on inspiration from the temperate rainforests in South America. The verdant garden will be constructed on a slope, enveloped in temperate rainforest plants which flourish in high rainfall, wet underfoot conditions and cool temperatures.

Climatic waterfalls cascade down into a pool, creating a breathtaking, dramatic atmosphere. The garden will be situated on the Rock Bank at the top of Main Avenue to give it extra height. A red walkway curves around the waterfall and through the garden so visitors can appreciate the planting from a variety of viewpoints. Visitors can expect to see some familiar plants in amongst the Chilean planting, with Gunneras, ferns, Fuchsias and Geums all featured.

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Chile’s temperate rainforests represent a third of all remaining such rainforests on the planet. They are home to many UK garden plants, such as fuchsias, alstroemerias, and blechnum ferns

Warner’s Distillery Garden DESIGNER: HELEN ELKS-SMITH CONTRACTOR: BOWLES AND WYER SPONSOR: WARNER EDWARDS

Did you know? ©Helen Elks- Smith Helen Elks-Smith is returning to Chelsea after five years, and this year she joins Main Avenue for the first time. The design takes inspiration from Warner’s Gin’s farm in Northamptonshire. In the centre of the garden is a dry-stone pavilion with two large cantilevered roofs.

The design of this is inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic house ‘Fallingwater’. Water will be integral to the garden, with complicated water features flowing throughout, portraying the natural springs and water still used during the distilling process.

This year, Warner’s will be serving refreshing gin-based cocktails and long drinks at their Gin Barn Bar, a wonderful recreation of their farm, distillery and botanical gardens

DESIGNER: JO THOMPSON CONTRACTOR: JODY LIDGARD SPONSOR: WEDGWOOD

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This is the second consecutive year that Jo Thompson has designed The Wedgwood Garden – last year’s garden won a Gold medal

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Bringing together a harmonious blend of classic and modern elements, Jo Thompson’s design references Wedgwood’s eighteenth-century factory and village, Etruria.

Etruria was built for its workers, as well as the entrepreneurial spirit of the Wedgwood founder. Framed views offer visitors different perspectives on the space, with water running through the garden, mimicking the watercourses and canals which were crucial to the functionality of Wedgewood’s production industry. Ferula communis will sit in a dry area, while Valeriana pyrenaica mixed in with roses will be planted elsewhere.

Below the garden will lie a secret sunken level containing artefacts which inspired Wedgewood’s designs, which visitors will be able to peek into from a structural glazed floor panel.

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ARTISAN GARDENS The Donkey Sanctuary: Donkeys Matter DESIGNERS: CHRISTINA WILLIAMS AND ANNIE PREBENSEN CONTRACTOR: FROGHEATH LANDSCAPES SPONSOR: THE DONKEY SANCTUARY

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The garden features paddock fencing that has been chewed by its resident donkeys, and taken from enclosures at the flagship farm and international head quarters in Devon

Donkeys play a vital role in ensuring people in some of the poorest and vulnerable communities in the world have access to clean, fresh water. The Donkey Sanctuary supports donkeys in need around the world and has sponsored this show garden to promote the message ‘Donkeys Matter’. This is also in line with The Donkey Sanctuary celebrating its 50th anniversary.

The garden will feature a stable and a stone well, surrounded by dense planting. A path will continue up to a higher area to represent the daily journey donkeys make. In keeping with the garden’s theme, there will also be a rocky area on higher ground with sparse planting and large boulders to highlight how donkeys are able to reach places that are inaccessible to cars.

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DESIGNER: KAZUYUKI ISHIHARA CONTRACTOR: ISHIHARA KAZUYUKI DESIGN LABORATORY SPONSOR: CAT’S CO LTD

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This structure includes a glass shower room, enabling you to be at one with nature whilst taking a shower

Miles Stone: The Kingston Maurward Garden Did you know?

Kingston Maurward and its gardens were once owned by the Hanbury family who were keen plant collectors. They also donated land in Surrey to the RHS in 1903 which became RHS Garden Wisley

DESIGNER: MICHELLE BROWN CONTRACTOR: ADAPT LANDSCAPES SPONSOR: MILES STONE

Celebrating 70 years of land-based education at Kingston Maurward College, this garden highlights the great work the college does and their commitment to inspiring young people. At the heart of the garden sits a bespoke blacksmith-made cupola which has drawn inspiration and materials from around the world – Asia, England and the Mediterranean. A path leads visitors to a spot underneath the cupola, a place for rest and reflection.

Planting includes Fagus, Acer, Taxus, Buxus and Hakonechloa, alongside handcrafted elements that fit with the artisan theme. The garden celebrates Kingston Maurward College and aims to inspire the next generation of land-based professionals.

Walkers’ Forgotten Quarry Garden

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Last year saw Kazuyuki Ishihara’s garden win a Gold medal and Best in Show. He returns this year with the aim of achieving the same.

Kazuyuki’s design is inspired by busy urban city life: the garden will represent the space we inhabit when we ‘switch off’ from this hectic side of life.

The main feature of the garden will be the open-style Azumaya, a two-storeyed structure with an upper tea room and a lower parking space. The garden aims to surround the owner with things they love including a motorcycle, an old audio set and old play equipment to also evoke feelings of nostalgia. Overall the garden will give a sense of a space to refresh and relax.

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Graham Bodle’s grandparents founded Walkers Nurseries in 1951. A disused quarry adjoins Walkers Nurseries gardens and is the inspiration for the garden.

Graham foraged items from a number of different quarries

DESIGNER: GRAHAM BODLE CONTRACTOR: WALKERS NURSERIES SPONSOR: WALKERS NURSERIES Graham Bodle and Walkers Nurseries return to Chelsea again this year after winning a Gold medal and Best Artisan award in 2015 and 2017. Inspired by a disused quarry site, this year’s design will reimagine the site.

Capturing the spirit of the original quarry, the garden will include industrial items, such as an aggregate conveyor, old tyres, digger bucket and rusty metals.

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The High Maintenance Garden for the Motor Neurone Disease Association DESIGNER: SUE HAYWARD CONTRACTOR: SOAR VALLEY SERVICES SPONSORS: THE MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE ASSOCIATION (MND ASSOCIATION) / MARTIN ANDERSON MBE, FOUNDER MEMBER This garden marks the third time Sue Hayward has collaborated with The MND Association, and this year, the garden is based on an idea from Martin Anderson MBE, founder member of the association. It will feature a space that was once loved and cared for, but now appears unkept and abandoned, highlighting the limitations of what can be maintained when suffering from a condition such as MND. The garden is shown gradually slipping back to nature, but has a relaxed beauty and atmosphere for the senses to enjoy.

It includes an iconic handbuilt Morgan 3 wheeler which continues the A Morgan 3 wheeler car is made theme of an item from ash, aluminium and leather – once loved but all three materials feature in now neglected. this garden Planting includes Sorbus, Osmanthus and Forsythia, as well as native weeds from various volunteers’ gardens and trees that are deemed unsaleable in local nurseries.

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Family Monsters Garden DESIGNER: ALISTAIR BAYFORD CONTRACTOR: IDVERDE SPONSORS: IDVERDE, FAMILY ACTION Both sponsors of this garden are celebrating anniversaries this year – Family Action are celebrating 150 years and idverde 100. The garden draws inspiration from their joint anniversaries and represents the journey of a family facing everyday After the show, pressures and challenges. idverde will relocate Families can journey through the Family Monsters the garden to an open space Garden to a Family where they can spend time together Action service where to talk through their stresses and it will continue to resolve any issues with a pool of support families by clear water to offer reflection. The providing them with planting in the garden represents an open-air and different generations in the family. tranquil space Birch and hazel coppice will create a partial enclosure around the garden filtering views in and out, these will represent the younger generation. A large gnarly pine tree (Pinus nigra) shows the history of a family and the scars of life, symbolically representing the older generation.

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SPACE TO GROW GARDENS The Harmonious Garden of Life DESIGNER: LAURÉLIE DE LA SALLE CONTRACTOR: BESPOKE OUTDOOR SPACES SPONSOR: ROBERT AND SUE CAWTHORN ©Ka zuto Kash iwak ura/ Miki Sato

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The concept focuses on how the four kingdoms – vegetables, minerals, animals and humans – interact with the four elements – earth, wind, fire and air.

The garden’s central pergola features a swing and planting such as Stipa meadow and bamboo, which require little This Mediterranean garden water. The motion of the is a versatile concept that swing pumps water to the can be transposed to any filtering plants before flowing other ecosystem from back into the pond, creating a Scotland to Polynesia process of regeneration while purifying the water.

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CONTRACTORS: TATSUYA SHIRAI, OTIS LANDSCAPE ASSOCIATES, HARRISON LANDSCAPES, KAWAI & CO LTD SPONSOR: KAMPO NO NIHA 300 SPONSORS The Kampo no Niha garden celebrates the health-giving properties of medicinal plants, This traditional Japanese medicinal typically used by a garden is funded by the generous practitioner of Kampo people of Japan and various – a traditional Japanese international sponsors, each of herbal medicine system whom donated more than £100 to – in Hokkaido. This is support the two accomplished Japan’s largest and Hokkaido landscape designers in northernmost island, its creation where snow-capped mountains dominate and also home to the designers, Kazuto Kashiwakura and Miki Sato. Features of the garden including a rill, pool, wooden pergola and stone patio will reflect the characteristics of this landscape.

Much of the planting is native to Japan: on show will be a Magnolia kobus, a deciduous tree which is believed to help reduce fevers and the Cornus officinalis.

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DESIGNER: EXTERIOR ARCHITECTURE CONTRACTOR: BESPOKE OUTDOOR SPACES SPONSOR: MARKETING MANCHESTER

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A dazzling sculpture by Mancunian artist Liam Hopkins takes centre stage in this garden and symbolises the journey from one-time Cottonopolis to the future-thinking and pioneering home of wonder material Graphene

The Montessori Centenary Children’s Garden Having built numerous gardens at previous Chelsea shows, this is the first project that Norfolk-based landscape designer Jody Lidgard has designed. His company, Bespoke Outdoor Spaces, will construct the garden showcasing the work of the charity Montessori St Nicholas. It also celebrates the centenary of Dr Maria Montessori who introduced the child-first teaching method to the UK in the early 1900s. Created as a space for children, the garden will feature two greenhouses, one showcasing hydroponic technology, while the other is a Victorian-style Children from a Montessori structure, inspired by a nursery in Norfolk have grown walipini, an underground plants to feature in this show greenhouse. Designed to garden, which brings to life the encourage biodiversity, Montessori methods of teaching there will also be a wildlife and showcases its child-led and pond, a gabion wall, and a future-focused approach living wall where children can grow vegetables.

Manchester – the ‘Capital of the North’ – inspires this show garden, created by Exterior Architecture. A paved area constructed from local sandstone and aptly named after founding city elder, Sir Joseph Whitworth, will provide an invitiing space for people to gather.

There will be 10 trees to represent each of the 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester, while the wider focus will be on futureproofing urban environments against climate change.

The plants that have been selected include honey locust, Japanese zelkova, hybrid plane and white mulberry.

After the show, elements of the garden will be relocated to areas of Manchester in partnership with the City of Trees initiative.

DESIGNER: JODY LIDGARD CONTRACTOR: BESPOKE OUTDOOR SPACES SPONSOR: MONTESSORI CENTRE INTERNATIONAL

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The Silent Pool Gin Garden DESIGNER: DAVID NEALE CONTRACTOR: NEALE RICHARDS GARDEN DESIGN SPONSOR: SILENT POOL DISTILLERS

David Neale’s garden for the same sponsor last year scooped not only a Silver-Gilt medal but also won the People’s Choice Award in the Space to Grow category.

Undoubtedly seeking similar success this year, David is back at Chelsea with a garden inspired by plant technologies and the greening of urban spaces. There are plenty of eye-catching features in this garden, including a flat roof structure with hanging climbers and a green roof which uses plant energy to create electricity. Surrounding this are large boulders and wide stone steps, as well as a reflection pool and botanical water wall.

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For the distillery, a vintage wood-fired steam boiler was restored to power the hand-built copper still created by the Arnold Holstein Company near Lake Constance, Germany

Viking Cruises: The Art of Viking Garden DESIGNER: PAUL HERVEY-BROOKES CONTRACTOR: BIG FISH LANDSCAPES SPONSOR: VIKING CRUISES For the third time, Paul Hervey-Brookes will be creating a garden for Viking Cruises. His two previous show gardens for the sponsor, one at Chelsea and the other at Hampton Court, were both awarded Gold medals, and this year will hopefully be no exception. Paul is taking a fresh approach with his latest design, having been inspired by the artwork aboard Viking’s latest ship, the Viking Orion, Paul, an art collector including that of Norwegian himself, has a large impressionist Jakob Weidermann, selection of paintings. who Paul says has always been He has a collection of 14 one of his favourite artists. Three paintings from the 20th cubic sculptures created by Paul century by Jewish will be central features, and the artists. This is one of the plant selection will have links to largest single collections Scandinavia, with species such as in the UK and includes Salix purpurea ‘Nancy Saunders’, artists like Meir Steingold Angelica archangelica, and Juncus and Joseph Constant patens ‘Carman’s Grey’.

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SPACE TO GROW

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GIVING GIRLS IN AFRICA A SPACE TO GROW RIGHT HAND SIDE CORNER PERSPECTIVE

DESIGNER: JOE PERKINS CONTRACTOR: THE OUTDOOR ROOM SPONSOR: FACEBOOK

This might be Joe Perkins’ 12th year at Chelsea, but it will be his first as a solo designer, and he’s managed to secure Facebook as a sponsor. While social media has come under fire in recent months, this garden aims to show the benefits of connecting and reconnecting with people across the globe.

The coastal-themed garden, inspired by family holidays to the Basque region of northern Spain, will include several plant species from around the world which flourish in this type of environment, including Agapanthus, Euphorbia oblongata and Pistacia lentiscus.

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Joe’s design uses water to illustrate how social media connects our online and offline worlds and celebrating the millions of people in the UK who are sharing their passion as part of Facebook gardening groups

Giving Girls in Africa a Space to Grow ©Jilayne Rickards Date : 04 November 2018 Category : Space to Grow 12m x 6m Drawing : Right Hand Side Corner Perspective Scale : N/A

DESIGNER: JILAYNE RICKARDS CONTRACTOR: CONWAY LANDSCAPES SPONSOR: CAMFED Sponsored by the Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED) at her debut Chelsea garden, Jilayne Rickards has a strong message to convey: the importance of horticultural education in African countries, particularly in the face of climate change and poverty. Focusing on Zimbabwe in particular, it aims to convey the country’s vibrant landscape through a bold planting scheme and the inclusion of red soil and banana and papaya trees. Plants have been sourced from warmer areas of Europe, whilst others have been grown at the Eden Project in Cornwall. This will be Conway Landscapes’ 20th show garden. The Hertfordshire based contractor has been building gardens at Chelsea, as well as the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, since 2002.

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For 25 years, CAMFED has united communities in sub-Saharan Africa in a collective effort to secure the right to education for the most excluded girls, resulting in more than 2.6 million children receiving support to go to school

The Roots in Finland Kyrö Garden Finnish designer Taina Suonio’s debut Chelsea garden is inspired by the countryside of her homeland with its biodiverse meadows and woodland spaces reflected in the design. Native plants such as Rosa pimpinellifolia will appear, and the Finnish national flower Convallaria majalis. Juniperus communis is a nod to the sponsor as its berries are used to flavour gin. With Finland boasting more than 188,000 lakes, a cascading water feature will be included.

Handmade silver insects will feature as well as Finnish granite for the paving, benches and the slabs in the sunken garden.

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Taina Suonio is the first Finnish landscape designer and Nordic female designer showing at Chelsea

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DESIGNER: TAINA SUONIO CONTRACTOR: CONQUEST CREATIVE SPACES SPONSOR: KYRÖ DISTILLERY COMPANY LTD

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TRADE STANDS

BARCHAM TREES PLC WWW.BARCHAM.CO.UK

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Scotts of Thrapston manufactures, supplies and installs high-quality timber summerhouses and garden buildings.

On stand SR32, Scotts will be exhibiting its standard range of hardwood summerhouses. Scotts works closely with customers to provide the ideal building to suit the home and garden.

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WWW.CHILSTONE.COM

Chilstone will be back for its third consecutive year, having won ‘5 Star’ awards for the past two years.

The stand will represent a miniature front garden for a distinguished property, and feature a grand stone portico with a Preston fountain as the centrepiece in a fine, circular pool surround. It will also be launching two new exclusive sculptures at the show and will display a bespoke planter with a unique design created for the Hurlingham Club in London.

Barcham Trees is returning for its ninth year at RHS Chelsea and will once again display a selection of fine containerised trees. The focus this year will be on the benefits of trees in our modern world, showcasing species for their various attributes.

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LINDUM TURF

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A major attraction on Lindum Turf’s trade stand will be its wildflower turf and sedum mat, as well as its wellknown landscape turf grades.

Visitors will take an educational adventure, learning about the species in each vegetation mat and how having a green roof or a wildflower area in your garden contributes towards preserving our bees and other important pollinators.

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T RHS CHELSEA 2019 SOLUS DECOR

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Pots and Pithoi, the first company to introduce Cretan terracotta pots to the UK, is proud to announce its return to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show after a 4-year absence. Pots and Pithoi will be showcasing all of its 135 designs, including the new 2019 range.

WWW.EVEREDGE.CO.UK

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At this year’s show EverEdge is once again exhibiting its range of garden and landscape edging products, as well as some of its custom-made steel planters.

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show presents a great opportunity for Everedge to meet existing customers and introduce its products to those who have not seen EverEdge before.

As ever, the team is looking forward to a great event and the chance to chat with gardening enthusiasts and professionals from around the world.

Solus Decor will be exhibiting its signature concrete fire and water products, and working with Thorburn Landscapes.

It is also pleased to be launching two new products that have been in the design process over the last year – combining both fire and water for the first time.

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BIG HEDGE COMPANY WWW.BIGHEDGECO.COM

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In an exclusive deal with the RHS, Big Hedge Company will be supplying a selection of hedging and topiary in specially designed planters to dress the visitor, hospitality and VIP areas.

BHC will also be creating a trade stand that features a full range of its Big hedging and topiary incorporated into a garden scene.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF LANDSCAPE INDUSTRIES (BALI) WWW.BALI.ORG.UK

STAND EA496

The British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) is returning to RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2019 with a trade stand of two halves. It is working closely with BALI registered contractor, nurserymen and landscapers Tim Wells Nurseries and living wall specialist Biotecture, as well as registered affiliate and composite expert SAiGE Longlife Decking. The stand will promote two contrasing landscape schemes; the cool greens of urban living and the vibrant splendour of a private domestic garden.

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