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Courtyard Gardens 2
Courtyard Gardens 2 - transcript
Carol Klein: The Good Gifts garden takes us back to the 1950’s to a small slice of the British coastline. Evoking strong memories of holidays by the sea, this is a space where you can definitely escape the stresses of the modern world.
42 Catherine Street is set in the secluded corner of an old garden. Attention to detail here, like the contrasting foliage in rusty tones that echoes the colour of the aged metal work, really adds interest to this atmospheric little garden.
When it comes to growing your own food, the Dorset Cereals Edible Playground Project aims to get children involved at an early age, encouraging schools to develop small kitchen gardens like this one to help make growing, learning and eating fun.
Growing Ambition has created an inspirational space for someone who only has to journey through their own back garden to get to work. With an interesting blend of hardy and tender plants, it’s not a bad way to start and end the day.
The Heritage garden from the Cayman Islands is a traditional Cayman sand garden, combining the African practice of maintaining shaded, sandy spaces around dwellings with the British tradition of using flowering plants to decorate the garden. It conjures up images of idyllic island life.
The Way Forward is a reflective garden of life and colour that’s been designed with easily maintained drought tolerant plants. It celebrates the potential of gardening in a warmer climate and will be rebuilt at St Joseph’s hospice in London after the show.
Princess Moon - East Wind II is the name of this unusual garden depicting a Japanese fairy story. Although the plot is small the bamboo growth creates a sense of space with its dynamic, green, vertical lines. Steve Putnam has designed a neglected chapel garden. Clearing through the undergrowth, this is now all that remains of a once loved and well tended garden. Again, the detail that’s gone into this tiny garden rivals anything you’d see in the big show gardens and, to my mind, makes the Courtyard Gardens some of Chelsea’s best little gems.