RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2008: Show HighlightsRHS Website

Dates: 20-24 May 2008, Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London SW3

Courtyard Gardens

These gardens present designs suitable for small spaces located in a rural or semi-rural setting.

 

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The Good Gifts Garden

A W Gardening Services and Conway Landscapes

The Good Gifts Garden

The Good Gifts Garden represents a seaside, coastal garden from the 1950s.

The garden is very natural and nostalgic and is a nod towards seaside holidays from days gone by.

[ The Good Gifts Garden ]

42 Catherine Street

Berkshire College of Agriculture

42 Catherine Street

Found in a secluded corner of a larger garden, this tranquil garden room offers a quiet, intimate sanctuary.

Built mainly with reclaimed materials and planted throughout with shade-tolerant plants, this space combines rusted ironwork with a wide variety of foliage textures and forms.

[ 42 Catherine Street ]

Mist-placed

Chessington Garden Centre

Mist-placed

The Mist-placed garden depicts a lost and neglected chapel garden. Formerly a place for quiet reflection and solitude, this garden has been untouched for years, but still retains the peaceful and calming spirit.

[ Mist-placed ]

The Dorset Cereals Edible Playground

Dorset Cereals

The Dorset Cereals Edible Playground

This garden is a showcase for a 2008 national campaign sponsored by Dorset Cereals called Edible Playgrounds.

This initiative seeks to educate, inspire and encourage schools and community groups to develop a small garden in which to grow food.

[ The Dorset Cereals Edible Playground ]

Shetland Croft House

Earthly Garden Designs

Motor Neurone Disease – Shetland Croft House Garden

The garden, set in the 1940s, depicts a typical Shetland croft house garden. The garden is owned by a Shetland crofter who has hung up his fishing nets since being diagnosed with motor neurone disease, symbolised by the walking stick leaning by the doorway.

[ Motor Neurone Disease – Shetland Croft House Garden ]

 

A Journey to Work

Growing Ambition

The Simmons & Simmons Garden – A Journey to Work

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.

[ A Journey to Work ]

The Heritage Garden, Grand Cayman

Elizabeth II Botanic Park – Cayman Islands in association with Newington Nurseries

The Heritage Garden – Grand Cayman

The Heritage Garden, Grand Cayman is a floral display depicting life in old Caymanian times and replicates the original Heritage Garden, which is distinctive for its pretty white sand garden.

The garden features a typical Caymanian Catboat, which is strongly linked to the development of the islands.

[ The Heritage Garden, Grand Cayman ]

The Way Forward

SPANA (Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad)

SPANA’s Courtyard Refuge

SPANA’s Courtyard Refuge is inspired by a typical Moroccan courtyard in Marrakech, where donkeys and other animals are still an integral part of everyday life.

The overall theme is to subtly depict the relationship between man, animal, plants and the environment.

[ SPANA’s Courtyard Refuge ]

The Way Forward

St Joseph’s Hospice

The Way Forward

The Way Forward is a garden of life and colour, which will inspire the visitor to face the future with confidence while honouring the past.

This easily maintained and drought-tolerant garden will be a place for reflection when it returns to St Joseph’s Hospice.

[ The Way Forward ]

Princess Moon – East Wind II

Uchiyama Landscape Construction Company

Princess Moon – East Wind II

This garden is inspired by a traditional Japanese fairy story about a bamboo cutter.

The garden is designed to portray the traditional elements of a bamboo cutter’s garden, while making it applicable to the modern day.

[ Princess Moon – East Wind II ]

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