RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2008: Show HighlightsRHS Website

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

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Real Life by Brett

Brett Landscaping in association with Geoffrey Whiten

Real Life by Brett

The Real Life by Brett garden is themed around adaptability and sustainability. The garden is about real-life aspirations, and provides a flexible outdoor space that’s perfect for everyday living.

[ Real Life by Brett ]

The BUPA Garden

Bupa

The Bupa Garden

The value of gardens in the health care sector is becoming increasingly important, and The Bupa Garden was inspired by Bupa’s global commitment to creating garden sanctuaries for care home residents.

[ The Bupa Garden ]

A Cadogan Garden

Cadogan Estates

A Cadogan Garden

The Cadogan Estate includes some of London’s most famous streets and garden squares, including Sloane Street and Cadogan Square.

A Cadogan Garden reflects the history and the future of the Cadogan Estate.

[ A Cadogan Garden ]

The Cancer Research UK Garden

Cancer Research UK

The Cancer Research UK Garden

The Cancer Research UK Garden is a contemporary woodland garden, inspired by the enormous amount of progress that Cancer Research UK has made, and continues to make, in the battle to beat cancer.

[ The Cancer Research UK Garden ]

The Reflective GardenClare Agnew Design

The Reflective Garden

Although The Reflective Garden is geometric in plan and structure, it was inspired by nature.

Tall structural trees and flowering plants are in huge contrast to cool still reflective pools and horizontal groundcover.

[ The Reflective Garden ]

The Daily Telegraph Garden

The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph Garden

The theme of The Daily Telegraph Garden is simplicity. Hard elements have been reduced to a minimum, while restrained planting and water come to the fore, encouraging reflection of light and contemplation.

[ The Daily Telegraph Garden ]

A Forest Within the Chaos of a City

Dato K T

I Dream, I Seek my Garden

This garden is inspired by the desire to introduce an original modern Chinese garden to audiences in the west, to link China and Europe.

The garden is sunk 1.5m (5ft) into the ground and represents a traditional Chinese interpretation of the landscape as depicted within Chinese art. The interpretation is modern, yet maintains the cultural symbolism of the garden.

[ I Dream, I Seek my Garden ]

Summer Solstice

Daylesford Organic

Summer Solstice

Summer Solstice is an organic agrarian garden, linking a green wheat field flanked by native trees and wetland ditching to a sheltered potager for the new century.

[ Summer Solstice ]

The Cafe Garden by Diarmuid GavinDiarmuid Gavin Designs

The Café Garden

The Café Garden is a place for people to stop, sit, relax and to immerse themselves in the atmosphere; it is a haven from the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

[ The Café Garden ]

Fleming’s and Trailfinder’s Australian Garden presented by Melbourne, Victoria

Fleming’s Nurseries

Fleming’s and Trailfinder’s Australian Garden presented by Melbourne, Victoria

This garden has a distinctively Australian theme. The design uses some of the unique natural materials of the Australian landscape and combines them with modern elements to create a very liveable space.

[ Fleming’s and Trailfinder’s Australian Garden presented by Melbourne, Victoria ]

From Life to Life

Gavin Jones Garden Of Corian® in association with Philip Nash Design

Elevations

The purpose of this contemporary garden is to entice and inspire; a retreat for the emotions and a space to entertain. From within, the garden is viewed predominantly from elevated perspectives that challenge your expectations.

[ Elevations ]

Northeast @ Home

Home Group

North East England @ Home

The North East England @ Home garden is designed as a communal garden that retains an element of privacy. It is simple, but stylish, sustainable, but not boring.

[ North East England @ Home ]

The Laurent-Perrier Garden

Laurent-Perrier

The Laurent-Perrier Garden

The Laurent-Perrier Garden is designed as a contemplative space with a dreamy and slightly surreal character.

[ The Laurent-Perrier Garden ]

The Largest Room in the House

Leeds City Council, Parks and Countryside

The Largest Room in the House

The Largest Room in the House celebrates the 90th anniversary of the end of the Great War and takes its inspiration from the garden at Talbot House at Poperinghe near Ypres in Belgium.

[ The Largest Room in the House ]

Traveller’s Retreat

Lloyds TSB

The Lloyd's TSB Garden

The Lloyd's TSB Garden represents an area of garden that was once a pond, but due to the change in the water table now sits mainly in the dry.

[ The Lloyd's TSB Garden ]

The Marshalls Garden That Kids Really Want!

Marshalls PLC

The Marshalls Garden That Kids Really Want!

The theme of this garden is an organic playground. Its aim is to create a sustainable, organic space with a balance of fun, excitement and risk in a controlled, managed environment.

It is an area where children can connect with and learn about wildlife, horticulture and biodiversity.

[ The Marshalls Garden That Kids Really Want! ]

From Life to Life

The Material World Charitable Foundation

From Life to Life

This garden was inspired by the life of George Harrison, who not only gained international fame from his time in The Beatles, but was a dedicated and inspired landscape gardener.

[ From Life to Life ]

The QVC Garden

QVC

The QVC Garden

Surrounded by still, reflective water and fresh, naturalistic planting, The QVC Garden is a replenishing space of calm beauty. Blending architectural form with rural inspiration, natural elements and modernist design combine to create a tranquil space for intimate relaxation, quiet reflection and rejuvenation.

[ The QVC Garden ]

From Life to Life

Savills PLC

The Savills Garden

Inspired by the Tate Modern, and the experience of the journey through its varied spaces, The Savills Garden examines the relationship between art and gardening.

[ The Savills Garden ]

From an Ocean to a Garden

Simply Italian

Ocean to a Garden

The theme of the garden is a geological story. It is a garden as a visualisation of the history of limestone, which began on the seabed as compacted shells, later to be forced upwards as continents collided to form mountain ranges.

[ Ocean to a Garden ]

Garden in Silver Moonlight

Studio Lasso

Garden in the Silver Moonlight

The garden is inspired by the architectural features of the Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto and it is designed as a contemporary interpretation of traditional Japanese concepts, such as a ‘succession of various sequential views’ and ‘capturing changing scenery alive’.

[ Garden in Silver Moonlight ]

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