The garden has a cooling woodland feel – dappled shade with pockets of sunlight – and features trees including acers and birches, including lesser-known hardy geraniums, such as Geranium nodosum ‘Tony’s Talisman’, as well as aquilegias, martagon lilies, amsonias and Aruncus ‘Horatio’. It features a timber-shingle-clad garden shelter, created with architect Andrew Mcmullan, who designed the pipeline sculptures in Harris Bugg’s 2021 Chelsea garden. Inside there is new artwork of 1,000 thumbprints in clay – a collaborative piece that speaks to the inclusive nature of the design.
The garden is being relocated after the show to the Princess Royal Spinal Injuries Centre in Sheffield, has been designed entirely with the input and feedback of patients, to understand what they would prioritise.
The list of medal winners was also announced today, with gold medals going to Horatio's Garden as well as Cleve West's garden for Centrepoint, Sarah Price's Nurture Landscapes Garden, Jihae Hwang's garden for Hoban Cultural Foundation and Chris Beardshaw's garden for Myeloma UK.
Daisy Bowie-Sell is digital editor of Gardens Illustrated. She has previously worked at the Daily Telegraph, Time Out London as deputy theatre editor and was editor in chief of WhatsOnStage. She loves her own garden but is most often inspired by the Oudolf Field at Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, which she lives near.
