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The Croft Spot Secret Garden
Domoney Ltd
This ornamental garden takes inspiration from around the globe, which is reflected in the planting, garden ornaments and design.
The Green, Black and White Garden
Anglian Home Improvements
This garden is modern and stylish, with a twist of Victorian to complement the Anglian conservatory, and also incorporates many environmentally-friendly elements.
The Burgbad Sanctuary
Burgbad Bathrooms
Inspired by the tranquil temple grounds typical of South East Asia, this seductive spa garden is designed to provide an unashamedly escapist retreat for those living in less idyllic climes.
Porsche Garden
Piece of Green
This innovative design aims to tackle the growing loss of front gardens to car park space in urban areas.
[ Porsche Garden ]
The National Year of Reading Garden
National Year of Reading
The garden’s theme is an imaginative walk through the unexpected, inspired by stories from children’s books and from reading material for grown-ups.
The Traveller’s Garden – with Bradstone
The Association of Professional Landscapers & The Society of Garden Designers
This garden is inspired by Walter de la Mare’s poem The Listeners (“Is there anybody there? Said the traveller, knocking on the moonlit door…”) and is an exploration of the creation of atmosphere within a garden.
Hope – The Way Forward
Boardman, Gelly & Co
Built for Combat Stress, Hope – The Way Forward is based on a question mark symbolising the unknown path that life takes and the path to recovery. The garden has three large pyramids in red, white and blue to symbolise the three main Armed Forces, with water falling from them to a small pool with mirror balls.
Holiday Inn Green Room
Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts
This garden is designed to demonstrate ways to improve your living space and make the most of your surroundings by literally bringing the outdoors inside.
[ The Green Room ]
The Magic Garden
Dial A Flight
This is a magical fantasy garden for children and adults alike. Via a wardrobe, pushing past coats, you enter a woodland garden inspired by Narnia. Its aim is to take you into a winter woodland filled with cold, staring and assertive white planting and cool blue-grey leaves.
[ The Magic Garden ]
Dorset Cereals Edible Playground
Dorset Cereals
This garden showcases a 2008 national campaign sponsored by Dorset Cereals call Edible Playgrounds. This initiative seeks to inspire and encourage schools to develop small, productive plots.
Sustainability Can Be Sexy
Floral & Hardy Gardens
Intended for a family with young children, this garden has been designed as a place for children to play and for families to be entertained and relax. The garden aims to encourage sustainability and eco-friendly living.
Three in One Garden
Lesley Faux & Garden Friendly Brothers
The Three in One Garden combines an edible garden, a family garden, and an adult contemporary garden all within the boundaries of a typical urban space.
The Homebase Room with a View
Homebase
Inspired by the Ionic Temple at Rievaulx Terrace in North Yorkshire, this is an ornamental garden for a professional couple with school-age children. The layout has classical overtones, blended with modern, perennial planting together with a small productive area.
Cuimhne
Inspiring Gardens
The Irish language word Cuimhne means memory, but it can also be used to denote a memorial. It is the root of verbs to consider, to think, to reflect and to recollect.
[ Cuimhne ]
Discovery
Libra School
The theme of this garden is a canal scene. The garden has been designed by the pupils of Libra School as an interpretation of a traditional English canal and Lock Keeper’s Cottage, complete with kitchen vegetable garden.
[ Discovery ]
Branching Out With Copella - The Apple Juice Garden
Copella Fruit Juices
Inspiration for this garden is drawn from an apple orchard environment. The main function is to provide visual relaxation and enjoyment, and an adult space in which to relax and entertain.
Back to the Future – Lessons from Africa for the Survival of the British Garden
Send A Cow
Send a Cow’s Back to the Future garden reflects UK life in 2058. Land costs and population growth have soared, world temperatures are rising and weather patterns have become unstable.
[ Back to the Future – Lessons from Africa for the Survival of the British Garden ]
Southend–on-Sea Borough Council in partnership with Metal present The Water Table
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council
The garden is based around water issues including those of water conservation and excessive runoff and is designed to showcase planting suitable for an increasingly drier, hotter climate.
[ Southend–on-Sea Borough Council in partnership with Metal present The Water Table ]