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St Edmunds School
The Music Garden
Designers: Pupils at the school - Ma Da, James Somerville Meikle, Robert Lye, Alex Manning, Graham Sabine
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Five GCSE pupils designed this garden and have been helped to bring the project to life by two members of staff and the school’s own RHS-trained horticulturist. The Music Garden is a place to relax and refresh the soul, or simply to chill out.
St Edmund’s School in Canterbury is an independent and co-educational boarding and day school with a strong reputation for the arts, in particular music (pianist Freddy Kempf is on of many professional musicians who studies at the school). The school provides Canterbury Cathedral with its choristers and 60 per cent of pupils take music lessons.
A gazebo, inspired by the classically designed clock tower at the school, contains seating and two recumbent stringed instruments. The planting scheme uses horizontal banks of alternating purple/pink and white flowers with vertical elements piercing and ascending through these banks of colour. The paving is a hexagonal pattern and is made up of replicas of the 150 year-old corridor flagstones at St Edmunds. Two pools reflect an unusual keyboard helix design.