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Walking Barefoot with Bradstone
Designer:
Sarah Eberle in collaboration with Andrew Herring
Sponsor: Bradstone
Contractor: Hillier Landscapes
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This garden is a contemporary space incorporating hard landscaping and textural planting. The garden is bordered on two sides by 2m (6.5ft) high walls, intended to be monolithic and create privacy as well as a visual anchor. The main feature is the large ornamental pool with textural materials on its base and changing water levels to reveal a concrete causeway. To the rear of the garden is a small garden room, a place for quiet reflection and to appreciate the beauty of the outside space.
Planting in this garden has been selected for its textural quality to enhance the hard landscaping materials. Colour of flower and foliage is limited to ensure a restrained and peaceful palette. The garden provides areas of dry planting right through to aquatics and, therefore, creates a number of habitats and varied horticultural interest. The scheme contains a high proportion of grass and grass-like foliage. A green cascade of sedum breaks the line of the wall and represents a waterfall.
This garden features Bradstone’s domestic sustainable drainage system for the garden. The water is collected via water collection channels in the walls and from the roof of the assumed adjacent home. The water is stored in large tanks within the walls and is used to balance the water levels within the pool. Water is also collected beneath the paving and fed into the system. A new specially designed paving product made from up to 85% reclaimed and recycled aggregates is used in this garden.
Sarah Eberle, the garden designer, says that Chelsea has to be a goal for landscape designers throughout the world irrespective of experience and achievement. She describes it as the highlight of the horticultural year saying that the ambience and sense of camaraderie that it elicits is fantastic.
Sarah Eberle will also be designing a show garden, Fisherman’s Retreat, in the Daily Mail Pavilion at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show (4-9 July).