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Dexter Garden Design
Perennial Evolution
Designer: Nicholas Dexter
Sponsor: Perennial - Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Fund
Contractor: Dexter Garden Design
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A show garden inspired by the geology of the Scottish Highlands and illustrating the balance between wild and tamed nature. The garden illustrates the sequence of natural processes that carve out the landscape in the Highlands; 600 years ago Britain was separated by an ocean and gradually, as the two land masses came together, rocks were thrust up and over one another. Since then other geographical events have left a footprint, such as mineral veins, which were injected through older rocks. Gradually the erosive powers of nature began to shape the landscape.
Plants include trees and shrubs such as Pinus nigra, Betula nana, Calluna vulgaris, and perennials and grasses such as Molinia caerulea ‘Moorflamme’, Deschampsia flexuosa, Carex buchananii and Astrantia ‘Hadspen Blood’.
Nicholas Dexter is in his late 20’s and runs his own design company in Brighton.