Despite being based in Essex, marketing assistant for RUBI, Emily MacLean has recently found herself much further south than usual, involved in what is being called “The Plymouth Project.” MacLean and the team at RUBI discovered the project when a lady, Hannah, had...
Landscape architect Peter Donegan is returning to the small screen alongside London-based contractor Maylim to transform a garden for The Julian Benson Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. In a one-off episode of Irish TV programme Room to Improve, the Dublin-based designer...
Garden designer, Lucy Willcox has partnered with Chris Hudson, managing director of Hudson Lighting, to create a portable lighting solution. Willcox, who recently appeared on Alan Titchmarsh’s new gardening series, has designed two table lamps, a floor lamp, tree lights and wall lights as part of the Tyto light series - a name chosen for its...
The shortlist has been revealed for this year’s Pro Landscaper Project Awards 2024, in association with Nth Degree. Celebrating the excellence of landscaping projects with a value of up to £100k, the Project Awards showcase creativity, innovation and practicality. This years awards have seen a record number of entries, with particular interest...
New to the Pavilion Books flower series, comes a chrysanthemum handbook from co-designer of the award-winning Flood Re: The Flood Resilient Garden at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Naomi Slade. Landing on shelves on 15 August, Chrysanthemums: Beautiful Varieties for Home and Garden, guides readers to propagating, growing and cutting the...
Outdoor kitchens continue to grow in popularity. James Scott, MD and principal designer at The Garden Company, has just published a blog post sharing his design advice to clients considering an outdoor kitchen feature. ‘There are certainly great advantages. When food is prepared and served outside, it’s easy for people to gather around and...
It was whilst frantically watering her plants in 40-degree heat that Sam Proctor had the idea for a garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Her pots were drying out quickly and she was having to use copious amounts of tap water to keep them alive. “I thought it was mad to be using drinking water to water them, when we know that London and the...
Ann-Marie Powell’s debut show garden has won the RHS/BBC People’s Choice Award at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The garden designer exhibited for the first time on Main Avenue with a garden dedicated to National Trust co-founder Octavia Hill and built by The Landscaping Consultants. As well as being chosen as the public’s favourite, The...
From the Torture Garden: A Sanctuary for Survivors to the Stroke Association’s Garden for Recovery, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024, was an overwhelming display of overcoming hardships, and proof of how horticulture can provide a therapeutic outlet for so many different types of people. Rather than simply beautiful gardens, these spaces offer...
With 90% of natural disasters being water-related, the importance of water conservation has never been clearer. The gardens struggling for moisture in the summer are the same ones drowning in the spring, with Mark Gregory, managing director of Landform Consultants and decorated RHS garden builder, recalling this past winter as the hardest due to...
St James's Piccadilly: Imagine the World to be Different garden, featuring on the converted Main Avenue of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this week, features a range of resilient and regenerative species to inspire the empowering nature of patience and persistence. As arid weather conditions continue to become increasingly more frequent, many are...
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and BBC The One Show have announced the winner of the Pocket Garden Makeover contest. Sara Tacchi from Bristol entered the competition in the hopes of transforming her flat’s small and narrow garden that runs beside a busy roundabout. Tacchi lives with a condition that makes accessing outdoor space for long...
For RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year, I chose to create a compact, modular and therefore transportable courtyard-style garden which could transform any unloved piece of land into a vibrant and immersive, yet peaceful oasis. I called it The Anywhere Courtyard to reinforce this concept of flexibility and from my strong sense that the need for a...
Ula Maria’s first show garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show has won Best in Show. This year’s The Muscular Dystrophy UK – Forest Bathing Garden, built by Crocus in what is the contractor’s final year at Chelsea, has also received a Gold medal. The garden showcases the benefits of the ancient Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing....
Thirteen Gold medals have been bestowed across the categories at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show. On top of that, 11 gardens received Silver-Gilt, four were awarded Silver, and three took away a Bronze medal. Here are the gardens that are taking home Gold: Show Gardens Muscular Dystrophy UK - Forest Bathing Garden It's Crocus' last year at...
The Octavia Hill Garden has won the first Children's Choice Award at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Designed by Ann-Marie Powell and built by The Landscaping Consultants, the garden has been chosen by primary school children for the inaugural award which launched this year. “To say that I’m thrilled by this award would be a huge...
A new community garden is being launched in association with the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Grassroots non-profit Grow to Know has teamed up with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) to create the first RHS Community Chelsea Garden. The ‘Life Under the Westway Maxilla Gardens’ has been part-funded by the Mayor of London’s Future Neighbourhoods...
The World Child Cancer Nurturing Garden has won the inaugural Environmental Innovation Award at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Open to all those in the Show and Sanctuary Garden categories which underwent the Green Garden Audit this year, the new award recognises the efforts of designers and contractors to reduce the environmental impact of...
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show has returned to the Royal Hospital Chelsea show ground this week and there's already plenty to talk about from the world renowned show. Press day saw a series of launches, celebrations and awards being announced. Here are our top highlights: 1 Crocus going out on a high It has been at all 22 shows that have taken...
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has today presented the Elizabeth Medal of Honour to Dr Olivia Chapple, founder and chair of trustees at Horatio’s Garden; the ceremony took place at RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The Elizabeth Medal of Honour (EMH), established in 2023 in remembrance of the late Queen Elizabeth II, is the highest RHS honour for...
Stroke survivor and garden designer Miria Harris has teamed up with the UK Stroke Association charity to bring the Stroke Association’s Garden for Recovery to life at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Having designed a peaceful, sensory space to support stroke recovery, “The Stroke Association’s Garden for Recovery aims to elevate the charity’s cause...
A recent study has discovered that wildlife habitats, complete with real grass, planters, and wildflower meadows, are among the most desired features for homeowners envisioning their ‘dream’ garden. In a survey of 2,001 people, almost 30% said they want to add real grass, trees, and seating areas to their outdoor spaces to create a ‘dream back...
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) introduces new category to RHS Flower Show Tatton Park reflecting on the increasing number of career changers entering horticulture and garden design. RHS Career Changer of the Year has been created specifically for new designers, plantspeople and contractors aged 31 and over to help kick-start their new...
A show garden representing The Laskett Garden in Herefordshire has been announced as the winner of the People's Choice Award at this year’s RHS Malvern Spring Festival. James Madge, manager of The Laskett Garden, called winning the People’s Choice for Best Show Garden “a fantastic end to an exceptional show”. Designed by David Wyndham Lewis and...
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, designers at RHS Flower Show Tatton Park will be raising awareness for life altering diseases, women’s rights and gardening on a budget, as show gardens for this year’s event are revealed. Category is, Show Gardens Scottish rugby player, Doddie Weir, and his charity for research into Motor Neurone Disease...
The winners of the 37th RHS Malvern Spring Festival have been announced, celebrating the evolution in the world of horticulture, with the theme of ‘Gardening for Change’ showcasing the positive impact gardening can have. With all show garden medals given out, the winners are as follows: The Cotswold Garden Designed by Mark Draper and built...
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