Healing Horizons is an impressionist-inspired, ornamental raised bed, featuring a central, fragrant, warm-tone drystone wall implanted with sedums and a colourful drought-tolerant planting scheme. The inspiration is access to nature and the health and social benefits green spaces bring, specifically in regard to the effect that natural environments have in the urban context.
Impressionism is a key theme due to its emotive portrayal of the value of the natural world and its pioneering representation of transitional light, scale and texture. Also, impressionism originated during the time of significant rural-urban shift and industrialisation, where our separation from nature was starting to be felt.
Key plants in the garden
Echinops ritro L. (small globe thistle), Santolina chamaecyparissus (cotton lavendar), Craspedia globosa (drumsticks), Agapanthus Fireworks ('Mdb001'PBR) AGM, Eremurus and (foxtail lillies).
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