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Back to Show & Events page ..... Daily Telegraph announce Designer for Chelsea The Daily Telegraph garden for the 2008 RHS Chelsea Flower Show will be designed by renowned landscape designer Arabella Lennox-Boyd. The garden, which draws inspiration from the purity of design found in Japanese gardens combined with the romanticism of English planting schemes, promises to provide a refreshing change to the nature of planting and garden design seen at Chelsea in recent years.
The design has an emphasis on water, which reflects light and provides meditative reflection for the mind. The pool of water will be encased in a double band of Purbeck stone and carefully positioned rocks rise up and break the water’s surface. A ribbon of Kirby blue grey Burlington slate will cross the reflective surface, meandering through the waterlilies before disappearing into a thicket of bamboos. The garden’s lush planting provides a foil for the hard lanscaping with water lillies forming ribbon-like waves across the surface of the pool in the same way sand and gravel is raked to emulate waves in Japanese Zen gardens. Simplicity and precision are key to this design with large leaves and grey foilage, falling roses and rounded shrubs all creating a rhythm reflected in the stillness of the pool. The Daily Telegraph’s Gardening Editor, Kylie O’Brien stressed the understatement and simplicity of this year’s design will add grace and dignity to the garden, making a clean and unique statement. Commenting on the design, Arabella Lennox-Boyd said: "I have always been struck by the sense of tranquility created in Japanese gardens and I was yearning to create a similar feeling of peace and simplicity with this garden”. The garden will occupy a prime site on Main Avenue at the show.
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