Dimensions
241 x 290 x 13mm
The show gardens at the world-famous Chelsea Flower Show are the spectacular high point of one of the highlights of the horticultural year. A show garden may be a riotously colourful extravaganza of planting, or an oasis of restrained elegance - it is also a miracle of organisation and sheer hard work, since, almost unbelievably, it has been created in just two weeks.
Each year, the garden designers aim to win the coveted Royal Horticultural Society Gold Medal. The medal is awarded to the show gardens that most successfully fulfill the judges' criteria: these include originality, practicability, and overall quality of design and planting.
With over 30 gardens featured, beautifully illustrated with pictures by Britain's leading garden photographers, this book brings together a selection of medal-winning gardens from the past ten years. Garden plans and plant lists are included as a source of ideas and inspiration for the home gardener. John Moreland, himself an award-winning garden designer and landscape architect, talks to the creators of these superb gardens, revealing their thoughts on the designs and how it might be adapted to a domestic situation.
