Savills Announce Chelsea Garden for 2005

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Savills Announce Chelsea Garden

Garden plan created by Clare Agnew Leading international property consultants, Savills, are sponsoring a show garden at the 2005 Chelsea Flower show, to commemorate the company's 150th anniversary.

Clare Agnew (pictured right) has created and designed a garden which will be a "reflection of an 18th century Grand Tour". Clare is well known for her sets for the BBC and special exhibitions for auctioneers Christie’s and Bonhams. The Savills Garden will be her first commission at Chelsea.

The garden is to be laid out on the classic lines of a European garden of the early 18th century. At that time there was a vibrant and beneficial exchange of aesthetic ideas, most notably with Italy, the destination of most Grand Tours. Young English gentlemen were encouraged to finish their education by travelling across Europe and this resulted in them importing the architecture of both buildings and gardens.

We are promised lush planting surrounding the stone, statuary and water. The temple colonnade (supplied by After The Antique Ltd) suggestive of Roman architecture, will provide a setting for a narrow canal. Planting will include Tuscan cypress (cupressus sempervirens), bronze fennels (Foeniculum Vulgare 'Purpureum') and large Box (Buxus) pyramids.

The whole feeling will be of a tranquil Italian courtyard garden with an intrepretation of classical hard landscaping, that befits the Grand Tour theme.

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(Pictures of Clare Agnew's garden design plans courtesy of Savills)