Back to Back Gardens
These contemporary, exciting smaller gardens are designed for small urban or rural spaces. The back to back gardens provide inspiration and ideas for a 6m by 4m space.
Show Gardens | Back to Back Gardens | The RHS/Ball Colegrave National Flower Bed Competition
A Modern Space to Bring a Smile to Your Face
Exhibitor: Morris & Ball Landscaping Design & Build
Designers: Paul Morris & Mike Ball
Contractor: Morris & Ball Landscaping Design & Build
A cheerful garden that uses simple and hardy plants, designed to provide a happy space that will generate smiles.
[ A Modern Space to Bring a Smile to Your Face ]
The Lake District Poets Garden
Exhibitor: Andrew Loudon: Traditional and Decorative Stonework
Designers: Andrew Loudon & Beetham Nurseries
Contractor: Andrew Loudon
Sponsors: The Coppermines and Lake Cottages, Beetham Nurseries, Honister Slate Mine, Windermere Attractions, Lake District Historic Houses Association, Cumbria Tourism
This garden celebrates the superb landscape of the Lake District inspired by Rydal Mount, the home of William Wordsworth. The garden provides a quiet sanctuary for contemplation and the design encapsulates the essence of Wordsworth’s poetry and philosophy focusing on nature.
Turn it Tropical
Exhibitor: Amulree Exotics
Designers: Amulree Exotics, Lucy Thornton
Sponsor: Amulree Exotics
Turn it Tropical showcases a whole range of tropical and exotic plants that come from traditionally very wet and very dry areas of the world but can now be grown in Britain due to climate change.
[ Turn it Tropical ]
The Sculptor's Garden
Exhibitor: Walkers Nurseries
Designer: Graham Bodle
Contractor: Walkers Nurseries
This artistically-focused garden demonstrates the effects of pine, conifers and grasses interacting together when an element of sculpture is introduced; one of which is a liver bird to celebrate Liverpool’s Capital of Culture ’08.
A Garden for Grace
Exhibitor: Christie Hospital
Designer: Andy Walker
Contractor: Walker Landscape Design
Beauty, romance and tradition take precedence in this garden, which is created by a man for his wife in years gone by.
Circul8
Exhibitor: Ground Duo Landscaping
Designers: Robert Walker & Helen Connolly
Contractor: Ground Duo Landscaping
Sponsor: Parkinsons Disease Society
The design of the garden was initially inspired by the Parkinson’s Disease Society’s logo. This initial inspiration progressed into a garden of fluid lines and eight circular and globular forms.
[ Circul8 ]
Suspended Thoughts
Exhibitor: Green Vision Garden Design and Construction
Designer: David Dixon
Contractor: Greenvision Garden Design & Construction
Sponsors: Howarth Timber (Sale Branch), Stone Products, Bentwood Moss Nurseries
This colourful garden invites visitors into a relaxing and energizing space.
The Moorcroft 'Natural Woman' Garden
Exhibitor: W Moorcroft Plc
Designer: Louise Harrison-Holland (Blue Tulip Garden Design)
Contractor: Barrington Landscape Construction
Sponsors: W Moorcroft Plc
The garden creates a secluded refuge for a working wife and mother: a private seating area to relax on her own or meet with friends.
Butterfly Journey
Exhibitor: Chester Zoological Gardens Cheshire’s Year of Gardens 08
Designers: Mark Hargreaves & Mark Sparrow (Chester Zoological Gardens)
Contractor: Chester Zoological Gardens
An inspiring garden that is designed to educate visitors about butterfly-friendly plants as well as promoting the new butterfly exhibit at Chester Zoo opening this year.
The Cider House Rules – OK!
Exhibitor: Jacqui Brocklehurst
Designer: Jacqui Brocklehurst (Colour my Garden)
Contractor: Colour my Garden
Jacqui Brocklehurst returns to Tatton for the third time with this fun back to back garden that shows how gardens can be ‘good for everyone’.
In a forgotten corner of a garden, a summer meadow is flowering with apple trees planted by the aspiring cider maker.
Umbrella Sensation
Exhibitor: Clusius College with Tatton Park
Designers: Clusius College students
Contractor: Clusius College
Sponsors: Kwekerij Loef, Boji
Global warming is the central theme of this garden with a statement about the changing situation of climatic conditions and the increased probability of extreme weather events. The umbrella is symbolic of protection from this for plants and gardens as well as ourselves.
Urban Retreat
Exhibitor: Floral and Hardy Gardens
Designers: Hugh Thomas and Hilary Pinnock (Floral and Hardy Gardens)
Contractor: Floral and Hardy Gardens
This contemporary courtyard garden provides a private and tranquil retreat in a closed space, semi-concealed by stylised screens providing a geometric reference for the whole garden.
[ Urban Retreat ]
A Tranquil Retreat
Exhibitor: Garden Creations
Designer: David Gibson
Contractors: Garden Creations, David Gibson
Sponsor: Acorn Stone Merchants
This garden exemplifies the creative possibilities within the confines of a small space. The tranquil retreat provides a welcome escape from the stresses and strains of everyday life.
5 a Day with Hidden Play
Exhibitor: Reaseheath Alumni
Designers: Margaret McDonough, Jim O’Rourke & Catherine Wright
Contractor: Chris Williams Landscapes
Sponsor: Muller One A Day yoghurts
This inspirational garden demonstrates how a small space can fulfil the needs of a modern family and also highlights the rising importance of food miles and need to improve diet.
Hope and Aspiration
Exhibitor: HMP Risley
Designer: Paula Keenan
Sponsors: HMP Risley, City College Manchester
In its first ever entry at Tatton, HMP Risley’s cabbage patch-style garden is symbolic of a prisoner's journey through their incarceration, but will focus on the positives such as new skills and qualifications.
Inspired by Great Dixter
Exhibitor: Lodge Lane Nursery
Designers: Sue Beesley, Bob Tridgett
Contractor: Paul Conreen (Warrington Builders)
Sponsor: Lodge Lane Nursery
The winner of BBC Gardener of the Year 2006 returns to Tatton this year with an ornamental, exotic garden that celebrates the garden at Great Dixter and brings inspiration to the north of England. Instead of aiming to recreate the famous East Sussex garden, the designer echoes the main idea of blending an old courtyard setting with modern, exotic planting.
A Vintage Tapestry
Exhibitors: Louise Ward & Roots n Shoots
Designer: Louise Ward
Sponsors: Roots and Shoots, Chester & Forward Builders Supplies
This garden looks back in time at the popularity of the parterre garden and illustrates the versatility of this genre regardless of space available.
Ladies that Lunch
Exhibitor: Nacro
Designers: Madeline & Collette Riley
Contractors: Manchester City Council, Nacro service users
Sponsor: Manchester in Bloom
This garden demonstrates the environmental benefits of keeping hens in back gardens and highlights the health advantages of fresh produce, as well as the hens’ capacity to recycle kitchen scraps, cutting down waste and producing garden compost, and also their pest-control qualities.
A Garden for Bees
Exhibitor: Ness Botanic Gardens Cheshire’s Year of Gardens 08
Designer: Ness Botanic Gardens
Contractor: Ness Botanic Gardens
This garden highlights the importance of bees to gardeners and shows how to provide food, plants and shelter to help in their conservation.
Time Out
Exhibitor: Outer Spaces
Designer: Philippa Probert
Contractor: Premier North West
Sponsor: The Garden Place Nursery
A plant lover's retreat, ideal for an older couple to sit in peaceful surroundings enjoying the planting. Isolated from the main garden area, this space is ideal for contemplations, reading or catching up with the day's news.
[ Time Out ]
Back to Basics
Exhibitor: Peter Ward Garden Design
Designer: Peter Ward
Contractor: Peter Ward Garden Design
Back to Basics aims to exemplify the principles behind good design with high quality materials combined with appropriate plant material set in a well proportioned space.
[ Back to Basics ]
On the Square
Exhibitor: Provincial Grand Lodge of Cheshire Freemasons
Designer: Peter Kinder
Contractor: P A Kinder
This garden is symbolic of the tenets of Freemasonry and aims to raise awareness of the presence and contribution of Freemasonry to the public. Essentially an area for relaxation and meditation, the garden is punctuated with Masonic symbolism, which also provides decoration to those who are unfamiliar.
[ On the Square ]
Metamorphosis
Exhibitor: Reaseheath College
Designers: Reaseheath College Garden & Landscape students
Contractors: Reaseheath College Garden & Landscape students
Designed and built by garden design students at Reaseheath College who were challenged to crate a bold and innovative garden within the parameters of conservation and sustainability.
[ Metamorphosis ]
The Scented Walled Garden
Exhibitor: Arley Hall & Gardens Cheshire’s Year of Gardens 08
Designers: Tony & Stephanie Hickish
Contractor: Summers Gardens
Cheshire’s Year of Gardens O8 presents The Scented Walled Garden, delivered by Arley Hall & Gardens supported by the NWDA.
Paradise Isle – A Western View
Exhibitor: Tatton Park Cheshire’s Year of Gardens 08
Designer: Sam Youd
This ornamental garden celebrates Tatton Park’s Japanese garden, completed in 1912 by Japanese workmen for the Egerton family.
Mrs Eardley’s Teashop - Celebrating 30 Years of the Gritstone Trail
Exhibitor: Cheshire County Council
This is a relaxed cottage garden, set in the hills above Macclesfield, that is sympathetic to the surrounding landscape, wildlife-friendly and easy to manage.
[ Mrs Eardley’s Teashop - Celebrating 30 Years of the Gritstone Trail ]
Reflection
Exhibitor: Debbie Cooke
Based on the idea of a new phase in a person's life; the garden it's intended to be uplifting, to raise the spirits. It reflects ones mood, whether sociable, in the bright public area of the garden or private in the tranquil, slightly more secluded hideaway.
[ Reflection ]