Chelsea Design 2005

The 2005 RHS Chelsea Flower Show Garden was designed and built using materials usually cleared from gardens and sent to landfill sites. Our aim was to re use scrap and rubbish in new and inventive ways to create an enjoyable and fun garden, with a sustainable message to people planning to redevelope their gardens.

Over all the garden was recieved really well and was mentioned in the opening credits to the BBC Gardeners World programe live from Chelsea. The garden was awarded Silver and attracted a lot of attention mainly due to the recycling concept and the fact we used a crushed car at Chelsea !

" The total effect is quite simply breath-taking, setting a new benchmark in the accepted standard for exceptional garden design and certainly worthy of the prestigious accolade received at the British Association of Landscape Industries’Awards ceremony last year...

The complicated brief for this design involed producing a very contempory garden in a Cotswold village setting. The planting was used to introduce a more traditional feeling to the modern design.

Features included a stainless steel rill with blue LED lighting, mist jets, gabbion walkway, fernery, curved deck steps with LED lighting. The old orchard was revemped into a ''Fairy Glen'' where excavated soil from the construction process was kept on site to provide two mounded rings planted with seasonal bulbs wild grasses and wild flowers.

The old well was capped, rendered, and turned into a seating area, as well as a mixture of modern and traditional wooden seating.

This garden was entered intgo the 2004 National BALI Awards, and won the Principle Award for its catagory.