Property News · May 27, 2016

10 things we learned from the Chelsea flower show


The trends that dominated the 2016 show ranged from copper tones to native pine trees and rough-hewn stone The meadow planting that has been so prevalent in recent years has moved in two different and competing directions. In one clutch of show gardens, the naturalism (in Chelsea parlance, a borrowed or captured landscape) of all those frothy plants has morphed into another type of landscape: the dry garden. We’re talking scree, gravel, drought-resistant plants: this year, Hugo Bugg’s Royal Bank Of Canada garden and Andy Sturgeon’s Telegraph garden were the standouts. But elsewhere, the froth of the meadow had an injection of riotous colour and an exuberant “everything plus the kitchen sink” approach to planting. Ann-Marie Powell’s RHS Greening Grey Britain garden epitomised the trend, with its bright orange shipping container of an outdoor room, echoing the bright orange geums among purple alliums; see also Diarmuid Gavin’s riotous planting in his Harrods British Eccentrics garden. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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