TÎR : A Welsh Landscape

The garden

Carefully selected materials, integrated water elements and layered planting combine to create a cohesive and immersive experience. The garden demonstrates how high quality gardens can be both aspirational and achievable, showing how strong visual identity, practical construction and thoughtful detailing can be successfully applied to real world settings.

TÎR reflects the evolving story of the Welsh landscape, from industrialisation to regeneration, from rugged beauty to tranquil calm. The garden explores the enduring relationship between land, water and people in Wales. Rooted in a strong sense of place and informed by the concepts of Cynefin and Hiraeth (belonging and nostalgia) the design references landscapes shaped by industry and renewed through thoughtful regeneration.

The designer aims to encourage visitors to consider the future of garden design, demonstrating that environmentally responsible and sustainable landscapes can be both achievable and enduring.

The planting

The planting scheme features naturalistic layers of spring colour, incorporating grasses, ferns and flowering perennials with subtle references to Welsh identity woven throughout. Sylvestris and palustris species evoke marshy lagoons, while trees planted along the perimeter form a Celtic woodland backdrop. A raised boardwalk guides visitors through the space, creating an immersive woodland experience.

The colour palette draws on tones of white, blue, yellow and burgundy. Approximately 700–800 herbaceous perennials, supplied by British Flora, will create a resilient planting scheme suited to challenging weather conditions and reflective of place and climate.

Sustainability

Materials will be returned to sponsors or reused following the show.

The garden incorporates:

• A wildlife-focused ecosystem pond
• Natural and locally sourced materials
• Deadwood habitats and bug houses
• Rainwater harvesting
• Construction methods designed for reuse and longevity

The designer – Nick Anthony

Nick is a planting designer with a background in ecology sciences. He has more than ten years experience working and training in horticulture, offering landscape design professionally for clients in Wales. Nick aims to incorporate fine garden aesthetics and planting that allows nature to thrive in gardens and landscapes.

TÎR represents a significant step in his professional practice, bringing together ecology, horticulture and garden design in a cohesive show garden setting. Nick says, “We chose to create TÎR as a natural progression of our work and collaboration in Wales. The garden brings together art, ecology and landscape to tell a story about place, about how land and water shape identity and how thoughtful design can support regeneration and renewal.”

About the Sponsor – British Flora

British Flora is a premier British brand specialising in high quality native wildflower plug plants and seed.  Everything we produce is grown and manufactured at our state-of-the-art UK nursery, ensuring exceptional quality and sustainability, accredited by the Plant Healthy Scheme. 

Our vision is of a biodiverse rich Britain, where wildflower species flourish and our ecosystems are restored. Providing habitat solutions that support biodiversity. Alongside our extensive range of British native plants, British Flora has developed its Rewild range, thoughtfully created to encourage specific habitats and attract targeted species, from pollinating bees to butterflies and other beneficial insects.