Courtyard Gardens
Motor Neurone Disease – Shetland Croft House Garden
The Dorset Cereals Edible Playground
Awards
This garden was awarded Silver
Growing Ambition The Simmons & Simmons Garden – A Journey to Work
Designer: Growing Ambition
Contractor: Rupert’s Landscapes
Sponsor: Simmons & Simmons
As a group of newly qualified garden design students from Oaklands College, St Albans, this is Growing Ambition’s first time at an RHS flower show.
The group consists of eight enthusiastic gardeners from very different backgrounds including a former scientist, a beauty therapist and a signer for the deaf.
The garden reflects the growing trend for flexible working. The garden is designed for a solicitor who has an office at the top of a barn at the back of his garden and is intended to provide an inspirational journey to work.
The ‘journey’ is a curved path leading to a curved staircase. The planting theme explores ways to blend reliably hardy plants with those regarded as more traditionally tender, to create a contemporary garden with an exotic feel.
A backdrop of strong foliage plants combines with seasonal highlights of purple and orange tones to create a warm, uplifting theme.
