RHS Malvern Spring Festival

6 - 9 May 2027

BROUGHT TO YOU BY:

Show Gardens 2025

The Diamond Way: Cotswold Estates and Gardens 60th Anniversary Garden

Awards

  • Bronze medal winner

The garden

Designed by:
Luke Gunner

The garden reflects a walk around the Cotswolds, but rather than a landscape in miniature, it is an ornamental garden that takes inspiration from many of the quintessential aspects of the area.

A covered seating area is designed around a church lychgate, and the water feature represents a stone-sided watercourse with a ford crossing, beside which is a bench, designed to look like a stone footbridge.

One end of the garden is planted with semi-mature beech trees and underplanted with woodland plants, mimicking the ancient beech woodlands found in the area. From the covered seating, a diamond-shaped water feature frames the garden, while spilling water out onto a waterwheel.

At a glance:

Who is this garden for?
It is a domestic garden.
Where is the garden set?
The Cotswolds.
Who or what is the design inspiration?
The features and landscape of the Cotswolds.

Garden Legacy:

After the Festival the elements ofnthe garden will be repurposed in a redevelopment of the Cotswold Estates and Gardens yard and in future projects.