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Bridge Over Troubled Water

Astellas Pharma Ltd

This garden takes you on a journey that represents freedom from the symptoms of Overactive Bladder (OAB), a condition that affects more than seven million adults in the UK. Reaching over the troubled...

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Coastal Drift

Wyevale East Nurseries

This garden forms part of a larger garden and is somewhere to relax and unwind. It features plants and materials associated with the coast such as sun-bleached timber, pebbles and shingle. The...

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Contemporary Contemplation

Morgan & Neal Ltd, OneAbode Ltd

This contemporary and stylish garden features structural planting with a graphic formation of spectacular white flowering agapanthus. Ferns drift whimsically through a bold geometric layout of Buxus...

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Discover Jordan Garden

Jordan Tourism Board

The Discover Jordan Garden takes its inspiration directly from the designer’s first-hand experiences of the landscape and flora of Jordan. Jordan is a country with limited water resources but a...

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Falling Leaves

Plumpton College

This garden features the vertical and horizontal structural interest of Modernist design and references Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater as its inspiration. The planting is part of the...

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Las Mariposas (Hopes of a Nicaraguan girl)

This garden, designed by Robert Kennett, supports Amnesty International’s Butterflies of Hope campaign for women in Nicaragua, where high levels of sexual violence against women are exacerbated...

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Light at the End of the Tunnel

This garden is about hope and recovery and has been inspired by Matthew’s experiences after being injured in the 7 July 2005 bombing at Edgware Road station. Light at the End of the Tunnel...

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Our First Home, Our First Garden

Designed for a young couple in a new home with a budget of only £7,000, this garden provides a relaxing chill out space in which to entertain, with consideration given to sustainability and the...

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The Landform Garden

Landform Consultants Ltd

Inspired by aspects of the High Line in New York, the linear park created by the refurbishment of a derelict elevated railway line, The Landform Garden includes linear hard landscape elements that...

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A Very Victorian Fantasy

Bournemouth Borough Council Parks Department

The two contrasting halves of this garden’s design draw inspiration from the arts and literary heritage of Victorian Bournemouth’s most famous residents. The sub-tropical theme of the dark...

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A Compromising Situation

Created on a budget of £10,000, this garden belongs to a young couple living in a Victorian terrace. They want different things from their outside space and so this garden has been designed to...

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Chaos

Chaos is concerned with the ideas behind chaos theory, intelligent design and fate. At first glance, Chaos seems to be anything but random or chaotic, given its precise structure. However, on...

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Garden for DA (Dyslexia Action)

Two interlocking squares are dissected by a path that runs through the centre of this garden, where a jagged slate circle and dark pool represent the diagnosis of dyslexia. In the first square, a...

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Japanese Reconstruction

makiko design studio

This garden was inspired by the effects of the tsunami that occurred on March 11 2011 in Japan. The turbulent black water represents the massive tsunami itself. Everything was swept away in a...

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Live Outdoors

Created on a budget of £13,000, this garden shows that a private outdoor living space can be created in an urban environment. Step up through the lush planting to a raised deck, styled with...

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Russian Museum Garden

Friends of the State Russian Museum of St Petersburg, Sistema JSFC

This garden’s ambitious aim is to encapsulate the splendour and history of St Petersburg in just 120 square metres. St Petersburg is known as the Venice of the North because it is built on a...

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The Azorean Garden

The Azores

This garden depicts the volcanic character and sub-tropical planting of the islands of the Azores. Inspiration has been taken from the geological features of the islands, and from their impressive...

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The Badger Beer Garden

Badger Ales

The Badger Beer Garden takes visitors on a gentle stroll through the Dorset countryside, with a chance to sample Badger’s locally-brewed ales. The garden’s contemporary design has been...

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The Coral Desert

Three-quarters of the world’s coral reefs are at risk as a result of pollution, overfishing and climate change. If we fail to act, the coral reefs will die and become ocean deserts. This...

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The Essential Indulgence

Van Arnhem Nursery Ltd, Andrew GD Plant & Construction, Vincent Timber Ltd, Antony Aslett, GP Engineering Services, AJ Tracy Builders Merchants

This garden has been designed for self indulgence and has an opulent and contemporary style. It has been created as gift of pure pleasure for its owners and is a taste of extravagance that emphasises...

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The Italian Job

Jack Dunckley’s Birchfield Nursery

This garden has a geometric theme inspired by a combination of Italian stylistic and modern contemporary garden design, complemented by formal and informal planting. A calming and tranquil...

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The Swiss Alpine Garden

Switzerland Tourism

Switzerland’s mountain lakes, streams and rocky mountain peaks have inspired the design of this garden, along with the clear, clean beauty of the Swiss landscape. Water and rock features,...

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Butterfly Jungles Transitions

This garden depicts a journey through butterfly-friendly planting styles, with a gradual transition from wildflowers to prairie-style and exotic planting, concluding with a tropical butterfly...

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Celebration & Jubilation

John D Wood & Co, Gaze Burvill, Scotscape, Urbis, Fire & Iron

Supported by John D Wood & Co (Esher & Richmond), Gaze Burvil, Urbis, Scotscape and Fire & Iron, this garden celebrates the Diamond Jubilee. Nestled among swathes of...

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Corner of the World

Oaktree Garden Centre & World of Water, Apollo Creative, Judith Needham Willow Work, National Autistic Society

This garden is primarily designed for use by autistic children, to provide an escape from the outside world. Key elements include a willow playhouse, a hollow oak tree, bubble tubes and other...

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Free Fall

Urbanissta Ltd

Free Fall depicts the five stages of individual emotional response to loss and failure: shock, fear, shame, anger and despair. The recession means that some people feel that they have failed in their...

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Possession

Easigrass Ltd

This garden was inspired by a Radio 4 programme about pharmaceutical companies, patenting compounds they have synthesised from rainforest plants. It questions who should benefit from the discovery of...

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Preserving the Community

Pretty Nostalgic Magazine

This garden has been created on a once-disused piece of wasteland, which has been brought back to life by a small community team for the benefit of everyone. An old tin field shelter shed has been...

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Summer in the Garden

Created on a budget of £13,000, this is a low-maintenance garden with low water requirements. A seating area is positioned at the far end of the garden, accessed by walking through beautiful,...

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The Poets’ Retreat

Bradstone Assured, Equestrian Fencing Services, Gaze Burvill, Woodlea Plants, Elliott Brothers Ltd

The Poets’ Retreat captures the elegance and magic of gardens as described by writers and poets. Nature is a common theme in poetry and poets are almost universally fond of their gardens,...

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Uprising

As a resident of Tottenham, Daniel Shea was inspired to design a garden in response to the destruction caused by last summer’s riots. As the regeneration of affected areas gets underway, his...

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Do Not Adjust Your Set

Bringing colour to a monochrome world, Do Not Adjust Your Set sees a structured, calm landscape interrupted when a giant television set falls out of the sky and crash-lands right in the middle of...

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Old & New

Made in Oak, Wiltshire Stone

Old & New combines contemporary garden design with traditional plants and materials. Handmade Wiltshire Stone flagstones have the look of worn paving and the practicality and durability of modern...

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Social Deckworking

This design was inspired by the need to encourage teenagers to get outside and socialise rather than shutting themselves away indoors. The central deck is surrounded by grasses and a prairie-style...

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The Wheels of Time

This is a garden designed for young people as a place to reflect on their past and look forward to the future. The design includes lines from the Kipling poem The Glory of the Garden , which is...

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This Is Me

Doreen Brunet, Norbury Park Wood Products, Pauline Sheppard on behalf of West Berkshire Dyslexia Association, Breedon Aggregrates, Charlotte & Mike Callicott, Claire & Peter Bibby.

This Is Me examines dyslexia and the wider effect it can have on an individual. Many people think of dyslexia as a condition that affects reading and writing; however, it can affect more than that,...

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Two But Not Two

The Rakes Progress Gardens Ltd

This garden illustrates the Buddhist concept of oneness of life and its environment. Although these two concepts are depicted as two distinct phenomena, they are essentially non-dual and are in fact...

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