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The Halifax Garden - These Four Walls
Designer:
Stuart Perry
Sponsor: Halifax plc
Contractor: Michael D Chewter Landscapes
Click here to view a panorama of this garden.
This garden aims to show how a good garden design can create a garden that becomes a key room in the modern home.
Stuart Perry, the garden designer, set out to design a fresh, inviting garden that contained the essence of the Scandinavian countryside. The garden aims to create a feeling of being immersed in a relaxing environment whilst still retaining the functionality of a modern garden.
Planting is a green canvas of grasses with splashes of colour from other plants including Iris, Hemerocallis, Knautia, roses, Thalictrum and Aquilegia. Planting is soft, simple and easy to care for.
A unique feature in this garden is the 'Sove' summerhouse, which forms the rest zone of the garden. A handcrafted bench from New Zealand sits at the far end of the garden near a glass waterfall. Stuart believes that the glass wall of this waterfall is the largest single piece of glass ever used in the UK and possibly Europe. It measures 2.4m (8ft) tall and 8m (26.5ft) wide and weights some 2,000kg (4,400lb).
Stuart started his gardening career working for subcontractors and progressed through to running his own landscaping company. This is Stuart’s first time at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.