AN AUTUMN SHOW GARDEN
This autumn show garden was designed and created for the National Amateur Gardening Show’s main sponsor, Amateur Gardening Magazine, at their annual gardening show near Bath (now the National Gardening Show).
With only three days to build the garden on site, it had to be simple but also create impact, which was achieved through using a diagonal symmetry and creating layers to make the small space feel larger.
CONTEMPORARY GARDEN
The garden was designed as a contemporary garden, using geometric timber and Portland stone, planes of dark water with pale bridges over and a pseudo-naturalistic planting style.
It also featured some key recurring themes, specifically contrasting vertical and horizontal geometry against a looseness of planting, and creating layers through which elements of the garden are gradually revealed. Wooden screens with flat horizontal planes and large metal upright posts were repeated either side of a deck terrace that hovered over a water channel, while vertical posts created from inverting these screens added interest to the walls and created a focal point within the core of the garden.
MODERN PLANTING DESIGN
Having the plants wrapped around the outside of the garden meant that the inviting interior was viewed through a mist of loose planting; even in a tiny space there is scope to create anticipation and mystery with modern planting design. Warm colours from heleniums, crocosmias, black scabious and yellow echinaceas mingled with the pale straw colours of the poa grasses.
“I enjoyed using late season warm colours that many people are afraid of; they add a richness to a scheme even when – as during show week – it never stops raining!” Amanda
Awards & Credit
This garden won a gold medal
Built by Original Landscape
