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The Marshalls Sustainability Garden
Designer: Scenic Blue
Sponsor: Marshalls
Contractor: Scenic Blue
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The Marshalls Sustainability Garden is a sustainable domestic garden. It has been designed to appeal to the UK’s ‘conscience consumer’ - consumers who increasingly put sustainability, climate change and ethical and social values at the forefront of their purchasing decisions.
The garden includes some exciting green initiatives, such as solar-panelled sculptures, which produce electricity, and recycling grey water from the house through reed bed filters. With fruit and vegetables, a wildlife habitat and recycled materials, the garden demonstrates that you can be green, grow your own and still have a great looking garden.
A cedar studio building situated beneath an earth rubble mound creates a modern outdoor room, where an unusually shaped irrigation pool provides a strong focal point.
There is a strong recycling theme in the garden; gabions filled with stone rubble create walls for the mound and studio building and the boundary walls to the garden are recycled scaffolding boards. A screened composting area featuring attractive bins for plant and domestic biodegradable waste provides a further reminder of the garden’s commitment to environmentally responsible practice.
Growing on the mound are foxgloves and mixed wildflowers. There are reed beds filled with Phragmites australis and front garden borders with fruit, vegetables, flowers for cutting, herbs, ground cover and evergreen shrubs.
Scenic Blue have exhibited at the previous two Chelsea shows and has been awarded a Silver Medal and a Gold Medal. The company's design service was founded in 2002 and has grown to be the largest in the UK, in conjunction with Marshalls. The team of garden designers has all had input into the design of the garden.