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Show gardens
Banrock Station Wines and Eden Project
The ‘I’ll Drink to That’ Garden
Designer: Paul Stone Gardens
Sponsor: Banrock Station Wines
Contractor: Eden Project
This Cornish-inspired, exotic and wild garden is an illustration of the new environmental garden at the Eden Project, sponsored by Banrock Station.
It is planted in manufactured topsoil made from recycled products. The terrace is a porous clay paving system, also fed by a green roof system, which sustains a reservoir of water available to the planting around it. The landform collects water in a dished area and supports water-loving bog plants that in turn encourage wildlife.
The garden is made entirely with recycled or sustainable products including woven willow arches and fences, crushed stone paths, and recycled timber seats and surfaces. Everything in the garden transfers to the Eden Project at the end of the show.
The garden at Eden, which opened in April 2007, incorporates a garden of ideas, highlighting the positive impact good gardening practice can have on the environment. It showcases alternative and sustainable, yet practical and realistic solutions, which can be easily re-created in domestic gardens throughout the gardening calendar. It is also a relaxing, social place for adults and children to take time out on their visit to Eden.
RHS Gold Medal-winner Paul Stone built his first RHS show garden for Help The Aged in 1987, and designed and built his first at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show in 1997 for the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust, which won Best in Show.