Le Jardin De Yorkshire
This garden is inspired by Yorkshire’s successful bid to host the 2014 Grand Départ of the Tour de France.
The garden evokes the rolling hills, hay meadows, dry stone walls and agricultural drinking troughs of the Yorkshire Dales, through which the Tour will pass. Sheep graze as a peloton of cyclists, represented by an installation of cycle wheels, rushes past, framed by a backdrop of sinuous hedge profiles representing the iconic Dales.
The Tour will pass through many of Yorkshire’s fine cities, market towns and villages, some of which are commemorated in the water feature that celebrates the route of Yorkshire’s Grand Départ.