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back to news index ..... BUPA announce Chelsea garden
Cleve is known to millions through is BBC TV appearances on programmes such as “Small Town Gardens” and ‘The Garden Makers” and is already the winner of four RHS Gold Medals. He hopes that his collaboration with BUPA will lead to further success. Cleve's design for The BUPA Garden in 2008 will build upon the sensory gardens project which has been running in over 250 of BUPA's care homes for the past six years. The scheme encourages local community groups, relatives, residents, and staff to work together to create a new sensory garden in the home, using features such as sculptures, running water and plants with bold shapes, strong scents and bright colours to stimulate the senses. "I'm delighted to be working with BUPA on this exciting project," said Cleve. "Gardens provide both stimulus and solace so their value in care homes, for both residents and carers, should not be underestimated." The garden will incorporate paths and paving that embrace the requirements for people with dementia so there are no dead ends or uneven surfaces and planting has been plotted at various heights to ensure tactile elements are accessible to those in wheelchairs as well as those who are not. Water features will provide soothing background noise while the centrepiece of the garden will be a bold spherical sculpture which symbolises the organisation’s global values. Vetreran Actor, Arnold Peters, who plays dementia sufferer, Jack Woolley, in BBC Radio 4’s The Arches, will help raise awareness of the issues the garden will be addressing. BUPA are delighted and proud to have the enthusiasm and interest of one of the UK’s most innovative garden designers and it will certainly be a delight to see Cleve back at Chelsea once again, with no doubt another eye-catching and clever design. (Advertisement below) |
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