I’m entering a show garden for the RHS Career Changing Garden category at BBC Gardeners World Live 2012 at the NEC Birmingham. I will be writing about my design process, all the people and contractors I meet during the design and build process… and (hopefully) the show! Wish me luck…
Friday 6th April, 2012
Design day. A little sketching in the morning and some serious displacement activity in the afternoon. It was suddenly essential that I did some power walking along the river in order to have Fantastic Ideas. Eight miles later and all I had in my head was a million practical issues. Next it was utterly essential that my power walk should be followed by a long bath with a glass of wine in our lovely new bathroom. The ideas would just flow!
Thursday 5th April, 2012
Today I chucked out a load more ‘help me please’ emails and made many many more calls, and I got more and more disheartened. I read some blogs by designers preparing for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, all of which sound so exciting! A trip to Italy to source the perfect tree. Except the blog post was dated February. And there was no way I was going to Italy…
Wednesday 4th April, 2012
So I’ve been approached by the RHS to submit a design for a show garden for the BBC Gardeners’ World Live in June…
I’ve always wanted to do a show garden. It brings together perfectly my two careers from my past two decades; theatre design and landscape design. My initial plan was to gain some experience by assisting another show garden designer, and so yesterday I emailed the RHS to find out who might need some help at the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park this summer. Maybe next year I could attempt a small garden of my own…
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