Our Well Beaners ’ Sanctuary
Designer : Gill Fothergill & Fay Grist Company : Link Nurseries Horticultural Therapy Centre
The chicken wire ‘ Thinker ’ sits on a bench in the ‘ Quiet Garden ’, surrounded by summer flowers . A mini pond and stumpery create an area for wildlife and insects . The wild garden is a patchwork of colour and wildflower chaos . A middle pathway of log slabs , edged with lavender and thyme leads to the herb garden , providing a sensory experience for people with visual impairment . A fountain of wild strawberries and edible flowers cascade down the pallets .
Vegetables and flowering companion plants are in ‘ square metre garden plots ’ representing those tended by members of the ‘ Well Bean Gardening Club ’.
Sponsor :
BB14
Seven Days of Creation
Designer : Laura Houghton Company : The Rabbit Hole Designs
A Garden should tell a story , it should be a place to escape to , where we can find our imagination , explore our dreams , think wildly about our existence and reconnect to our spirituality .
This border is born around the idea of the seven days of creation , by stripping away our busy lives and focusing on the elements of nature we can be reminded of our simplicity , reconnect to ourselves and find a place of escapism .
As You Like It
Designer : Katie Day Company : Katie Day Garden Design
My Border is an escape into the storyworld of Shakespeare ’ s play ‘ As You Like It ’ - a romance with gender diverse experimentation - where the young people escape from the formality of the court into the freedoms offered by the natural landscape of the forest . The Court is represented with a formal Tudor Parterre inspired garden . An arch , reminiscent of theatrical staging , leads into a fantasy woodland with flamboyant flowers and a Hawthorn tree , invoking the Forest of Arden where love blossoms .
Sponsors :
BB12
BB13
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