Exhibitors
City gardens
Sarah Price Landscapes
The QVC Bejewelled Garden
Designer: Sarah Price
Sponsor: QVC UK
Contractor: Wynniatt-Husey Clarke
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This enchanting City Garden features an array of gemstone-inspired plants and rich tapestry of colour and texture.
The garden is inspired by crystalline formations and precious gemstones. Its composition of sequentially stepped water pools and warm limestone captures a moment of beauty.
Coloured washed walls and blended natural stones form a muted backdrop of warm tones. Shimmering glass compositions mirror the flower forms of pointillist planting, while reflecting diffused light back into the space.
The planting is soft and informal, with an emphasis on colour and texture. Painterly drifts of perennials, pinpricks of ruby red Potentilla, plum Aquilegia and the deep velvet blue spires of Verbascum create a composition of vibrant jewel-like colours and forms.
Shimmering swathes of copper Carex buchananii and a backdrop of soft green foliage underpin multi-stemmed Amelanchier lamarckii that are pruned to create three-dimensional, vertical accents within the space. The species of plants attract wildlife, especially birds, bees and butterflies.
The QVC Bejewelled Garden aims to offer inherently elegant and sophisticated space to entertain and relax, creating a tranquil yet effervescent atmosphere for an enchanted city garden.
Working alongside the gardening charity Thrive, the plants and trees exhibited at Chelsea will be replanted within Battersea Park as part of its ongoing Battersea Project.
Sarah Price is making her debut at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. At just 26 years old Sarah boasts an impressive CV that includes first class qualifications, awards and practical experience; in 2006 she received a Gold Medal for her Conceptual Garden Difference & Repetition at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.