Awards announced at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2022
Best Show Garden – Over The Wall by Matthew Childs Design
Best Global Impact Garden – What Does Not Burn by Victoria Manoylo & Carrie Preston
Best Get Started Garden – Lunch Break Garden by Inspired Earth Design
Gardens created for a disabled children’s charity; to raise awareness for the conflict in Ukraine and a planting starter kit for home-workers have won awards on the opening day of the 2022 RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival.
The prestigious Best Show Garden was awarded to Over The Wall by Matthew Childs Design, a conceptual garden space to highlight the inspiring work of the Over The Wall charity which supports children living with rare and serious illness or disability. The team also received the Best Show Garden Construction award with contractors Yoreland Design, as well as winning a Gold Medal. The garden’s colourful planting features annuals and perennials that symbolise the colours of the charity’s ‘Brilliance Beads’ given to children to raise their confidence, along with character pine trees and shrubs that give a contemporary Japanese aesthetic in reference to the garden’s sponsor Takeda.
A garden symbolising the on-going conflict in Ukraine and reflecting the country’s culture and tradition won in the Global Impact category. What Does Not Burn created by Ukrainian designer Victoria Maynolo and Netherlands based Carrie Preston, features a burnt-out structure that represents a typical Ukrainian cottage, set within a field of barley interspersed with field weeds and fruit trees. The walls, windows and doors of the building have been burnt away and replaced by rushnyks, a ceremonial Ukrainian embroidered cloth.
The Get Started category aims to encourage and inspire people of all ages to start gardening, whatever their physical or mental ability, budget or space, with an emphasis on showcasing reliable, affordable and easy to look after planting. As more employees work from home, gardens have become a valuable haven for physical and mental wellbeing during a busy day. Inspired Earth Design’s Lunch Break Garden is a simple approach to planting with only eight varieties of herbaceous perennial making the often overwhelming choice of what to plant more achievable. Created by partners Emily Grayshaw, Imogen Perreau and Jude Yeo, the garden draws on their experiences of working from home during the pandemic and recognising the therapeutic benefits that gardening offers. The designers also achieved one of only two Gold medals awarded by the judges.
Best Construction in the Global Impact or Get Started category was awarded to The Wooden Spoon Garden by Toni Bowater and Lucy Welsh with contractors Lifestyle Gardens Design & Build to deconstructs the conventional principles of a garden and re-imagines it to encourage those who might be afraid of gardening to have fun by interacting with elements such as a bird perch and windmills. After the festival, the garden is being adapted for inclusion in a sensory garden at a special needs school in Kent.
Sarah Eberle was honoured with the RHS Iconic Horticultural Hero award for her professional career spanning over 40 years, and in recognition of being the most decorated designer across all RHS shows with 21 Gold medals. Eberle’s design for this year’s festival features a walk through garden taking visitors into a range of environments, from woodland edge to arid climes using plants grown in the UK.
Helena Pettit, RHS Director of Gardens and Shows said:
“Congratulations to all of the award winners at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival. The breadth of design and ideas behind each one was really thought provoking and inspiring, as well as visually beautiful. We are also honoured to recognise Sarah Eberle in celebration of her life-long career in horticulture, as well as her continued contribution to the profession. Her garden will be adored by visitors and will offer a fantastic experience for them to walk through and get up close and personal to her cleverly planted design.”
What’s On Magazine July issue is out now. Along with a list of events for July in your local area and beyond, we review the 2022 Goodwood Festival Of Speed. Pick up a copy at one of our many local distribution points including major supermarkets.
CLICK HERE OR ON THE IMAGE TO READ ONLINE
What’s On Magazine June issue is out now. Along with a list of events for June in your local area and beyond, we review the 2022 Chelsea Flower Show. Pick up a copy at one of our many local distribution points including major supermarkets.
Rewilding Garden Wins Best in Show at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022, sponsored by The Newt in Somerset, has crowned Lulu Urquhart and Adam Hunt’s A Rewilding Britain Landscape Best in Show – the second year in a row that first-time designers have taken the top prize.
Urquhart & Hunt Landscape Design’s garden for the charity Rewilding Britain received a Gold medal for its naturalistic design celebrating the dramatic transformation of land through the reintroduction of beavers, and was made possible thanks to funding by Project Giving Back. Using UK native plants, West Country stone and reclaimed timber, the garden evokes a rewilded landscape in the South West of England with a beavers’ dam representing a re-established colony of this keystone species.
RHS Chair of Judges James Alexander-Sinclair said of the award winning garden:
“It’s exciting to be back at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in May, and while all of this year’s gardens are sensational, a few really stood out. It was a hard-fought debate between the members of the judging panel to decide which garden to award Best in Show. In the end, all the judges were captivated by the skill, endeavour and charm of A Rewilding Britain Landscape – every step is exquisite.”
Best Construction in the Show Garden category went to the MEDITE SMARTPLY Building the Future Garden, and was also awarded Gold, marking the 13th Gold medal for RHS Chelsea’s most decorated designer Sarah Eberle. The garden, which is the 101st built by Mark Gregory’s Landform Consultants, showcases sustainable construction materials in an ‘edge-of-forest’ setting, featuring a waterfall and a building inspired by rock strata constructed from MEDITE SMARTPLY.
The other Gold medal winners in the Show Garden category were: The Mind Garden by Crocus; Ruth Willmott Associates’ The Morris & Co. Garden; The Meta Garden: Growing the Future by Joe Perkins; and a 14th Chelsea Gold for Chris Beardshaw with The RNLI Garden.
Elsewhere, Kate Gould scored a double win for the Out of the Shadows Garden, taking both Best Garden and Best Construction in the Sanctuary Garden category. Three other Sanctuary Gardens were also awarded Gold medals: The Place2Be Securing Tomorrow Garden by Sarasin and Partners and Jamie Butterworth; Garden Club London’s A Garden Sanctuary by Hamptons; and the Boodles Travel Garden by Thomas Hoblyn.
Two new categories were judged for the first time this year, with all thirteen exhibitors – all of whom are first-time RHS Chelsea designers – enjoying medal success. Charlie Hawkes’ The Wilderness Foundation UK Garden was named Best All About Plants Garden in the Great Pavilion, while The Still Garden by Jane Porter took the top accolade in the Balcony & Container gardens category, created with small outdoor spaces in mind.
What’s On Magazine May issue is out now. Along with a list of events for May in your local area and beyond, we review the 2022 Olivier Awards. Pick up a copy at one of our many local distribution points including major supermarkets.
Cabaret triumphs with 7 awards including Magic Radio Best Musical
Revival and acting wins for Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley.
– 5 wins for Life Of Pi including Best New Play and an historic Best Supporting Actor win for the 7 performers who play ‘Richard Parker’ the puppet tiger .
– Additional acting winners include Hiran Abeysekera, Sheila Atim, Liz Carr, Elliot Levey and Liza Sadovy
– Back To The Future – The Musical awarded Mastercard Best New Musical
– Constellations wins Cunard Best Revival
What’s On Magazine April issue is out now. Along with a list of events for April in your local area and beyond, we review the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards. Pick up a copy at one of our many local distribution points including major supermarkets.
CLICK HERE OR ON THE IMAGE TO READ ONLINE
What’s On Magazine March issue is out now. Along with a list of events for March in your local area and beyond, we preview The Ideal Home Show & Eat & Drink Festival which take place at Olympia London from 11th – 27th March.
Pick up a copy at one of our many local distribution points including major supermarkets.
CLICK HERE OR ON THE IMAGE TO READ ONLINE
The Ideal Home Show, in partnership with NatWest, will offer everything you need to make your house a home to be proud of. Whether you have a big home project, or just want to add those finishing touches.
The Great Eat is the home of some of the most exciting new flavours in street food culture. From gourmet burgers and fully loaded crepes to Indian street food and sweet treats, whatever taste you’re after, you’ll find it at the Eat & Drink Festival.
Next Page »
