Garden Design: Great Ideas to Steal from the 2015 Chelsea Flower Show - Last month, while proudly wearing press credentials That gave me insider access to the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show legendary, I Spent a day touring the 15 major show gardens, nine smaller fresh gardens and the Great Pavilion (filled with nursery and horticultural displays collections) to study and photograph the best of the plant world's best.
For just five days Each May, the media spotlight turns to this corner of London, Where leading landscape design and horticultural talent showcase Their creativity. Unlike major US flower shows in Philadelphia and Seattle, the spring RHS flower show takes up outdoors, on the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea. That means clustering the sky is the ceiling, infusing thesis designs with the variable of nature, Including rain (umbrellas are a must).
There Was So much to see at this grande dame of all flower shows That I've Organised my favorite ideas into a series of stories Houzz. My first installment covered 2015 winning Chelsea show gardens. This story looks at design ideas, plants and plant combinations That caught my eye.
For just five days Each May, the media spotlight turns to this corner of London, Where leading landscape design and horticultural talent showcase Their creativity. Unlike major US flower shows in Philadelphia and Seattle, the spring RHS flower show takes up outdoors, on the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea. That means clustering the sky is the ceiling, infusing thesis designs with the variable of nature, Including rain (umbrellas are a must).
There Was So much to see at this grande dame of all flower shows That I've Organised my favorite ideas into a series of stories Houzz. My first installment covered 2015 winning Chelsea show gardens. This story looks at design ideas, plants and plant combinations That caught my eye.
Debra Prinzing
Garden Design
Drought-tolerant planting
in the Royal Bank of Canada Garden, designed to showcase sustainable ideas for how water management in an urban garden can be visually stunning, designer Matthew Wilson drew much inspiration from the Mediterranean landscape. Here, in nooks of a vertical stone wall, He Has tucked succulent plants arid and Where They are designed to take root, lending a modern twist to rustic stone.
Drought-tolerant planting
in the Royal Bank of Canada Garden, designed to showcase sustainable ideas for how water management in an urban garden can be visually stunning, designer Matthew Wilson drew much inspiration from the Mediterranean landscape. Here, in nooks of a vertical stone wall, He Has tucked succulent plants arid and Where They are designed to take root, lending a modern twist to rustic stone.
Debra Prinzing
In another view of Wilson's design for the Royal Bank of Canada Garden, the drought-tolerant plantings are intended anything dull. There's an alluring see-through quality to the ornamental alliums and bearded irises, ALLOWING the viewer to peer into the garden from a distance.
Debra Prinzing
Colour-blocking
for The Telegraph Garden, Marcus Barnett designed a garden inspired by the De Stijl movement, a group of Dutch architects and artists Known for Simplifying visual composition to the vertical and horizontal.
Barnett's landscape Could Easily be called Expired a color-block style, with gold bands rectilinear square planting sections. A white-planted block of perennials is simply dazzling, Especially with the mix of high and low flowers and foliage.
Especially dramatic are the white foxtail lilies ( Eremurus sp), qui emerge tall Above a playful white tapestry of Viola cornuta Alba Group ', ornamental onion ( Allium nigrum ), Centranthus ruber Albus' Artemisia ludoviciana 'Valerie Finnis' and Hesperis matronalis var . albiflora . Take that recipe to the garden center and you May be ble to replicate a slice of Chelsea in your own outside space.
See thesis insider tricks for Creating the Chelsea Flower Show look
for The Telegraph Garden, Marcus Barnett designed a garden inspired by the De Stijl movement, a group of Dutch architects and artists Known for Simplifying visual composition to the vertical and horizontal.
Barnett's landscape Could Easily be called Expired a color-block style, with gold bands rectilinear square planting sections. A white-planted block of perennials is simply dazzling, Especially with the mix of high and low flowers and foliage.
Especially dramatic are the white foxtail lilies ( Eremurus sp), qui emerge tall Above a playful white tapestry of Viola cornuta Alba Group ', ornamental onion ( Allium nigrum ), Centranthus ruber Albus' Artemisia ludoviciana 'Valerie Finnis' and Hesperis matronalis var . albiflora . Take that recipe to the garden center and you May be ble to replicate a slice of Chelsea in your own outside space.
See thesis insider tricks for Creating the Chelsea Flower Show look
Debra Prinzing
The red-themed blocks caught my eye, thanks to the beautiful interplanting of Tulipa 'Red Hat' with wavy hair grass ( Deschampsia flexuosa) and what looks to be the burgundy foliage of astilbe year.
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Softening the base of a sculptural room called Expired Xylem is a fantastic silver and orange planting scheme That I found in dramatic icts simplicity.
Silvery Astelia and artichoke foliage is accented by an orange-flowering Geum and a bronzy sedges. This can Easily be replicated in a container garden or a small planting bed.
Silvery Astelia and artichoke foliage is accented by an orange-flowering Geum and a bronzy sedges. This can Easily be replicated in a container garden or a small planting bed.
Debra Prinzing
Vertical lines
In The Brewin Dolphin Garden, designed by Darren Hawkes, English stately elms ( Ulmus minor ) stand tall, holding Their Own Against the massive slate walls and walks. At the base of the trees, perennials echo the vertical thrust of the trunks, Including foxgloves, columbine, plume poppy, viburnum, angelica and larkspur .
In The Brewin Dolphin Garden, designed by Darren Hawkes, English stately elms ( Ulmus minor ) stand tall, holding Their Own Against the massive slate walls and walks. At the base of the trees, perennials echo the vertical thrust of the trunks, Including foxgloves, columbine, plume poppy, viburnum, angelica and larkspur .
Debra Prinzing
Foxglove is just one of the gold spiked spiral-formed perennials That can make a dynamic spring garden. Especially Reviews This was evident at Chelsea, Where small display gardens Had to make a big impact to wow judges and the public alike.
In The Homebase Garden - Urban Retreat, designer Adam Frost vertical plants gave a starring role. In addition to foxgloves, he relied on bearded irises, euphorbias and hardy geraniums to create a pleasing tapestry That aussi Attracts beneficial insects.
Tour the wildlife-friendly Homebase Urban Retreat Garden
In The Homebase Garden - Urban Retreat, designer Adam Frost vertical plants gave a starring role. In addition to foxgloves, he relied on bearded irises, euphorbias and hardy geraniums to create a pleasing tapestry That aussi Attracts beneficial insects.
Tour the wildlife-friendly Homebase Urban Retreat Garden
Debra Prinzing
Mounds
Here's Reviews another view of Frost's inspired border for The Homebase Garden, qui in the soft perennial sections are anchored with domes of clipped Yews ( Taxus baccata ). The evergreen mounds Provide a visual calmness, and the dense forms create inviting spaces for nesting insects and birds.
Here's Reviews another view of Frost's inspired border for The Homebase Garden, qui in the soft perennial sections are anchored with domes of clipped Yews ( Taxus baccata ). The evergreen mounds Provide a visual calmness, and the dense forms create inviting spaces for nesting insects and birds.
Debra Prinzing
Plants
a noninvasive loosestrife
One of my favorite discoveries Appeared and reappeared in Numerous display gardens: the burgundy gooseneck loosestrife, a noninvasive cultivar called Expired Lysimachia atropurpurea ' Beaujolais'. In The M & G Garden, designed by Jo Thompson, the graceful, wine-hued spikes grow companionably with Centranthus album , a white-flowering perennial, and Artemisia absinthium 'Lambrook Silver' with pewter foliage.
a noninvasive loosestrife
One of my favorite discoveries Appeared and reappeared in Numerous display gardens: the burgundy gooseneck loosestrife, a noninvasive cultivar called Expired Lysimachia atropurpurea ' Beaujolais'. In The M & G Garden, designed by Jo Thompson, the graceful, wine-hued spikes grow companionably with Centranthus album , a white-flowering perennial, and Artemisia absinthium 'Lambrook Silver' with pewter foliage.
Debra Prinzing
Geum
Whether we credit the popularity of the perennial called Expired Geum to its perfect timing of blooming During Chelsea, or to icts gorgeous petal color, or to icts whimsical form, it all adds up to a stellar choice for a mixed border, cutting garden or container. Geum rival 'Flames of Passion' is aptly named. Selon Bluestone Perennials, it is deer and rabbit resistant, Attracts butterflies, long-blooming and is is a perfect compact, low-growing plant.
Whether we credit the popularity of the perennial called Expired Geum to its perfect timing of blooming During Chelsea, or to icts gorgeous petal color, or to icts whimsical form, it all adds up to a stellar choice for a mixed border, cutting garden or container. Geum rival 'Flames of Passion' is aptly named. Selon Bluestone Perennials, it is deer and rabbit resistant, Attracts butterflies, long-blooming and is is a perfect compact, low-growing plant.
Debra Prinzing
Golden hop vine
Golden hop vine ( Humulus lupulus 'Aureus') is a lemon-lime stunner, a favorite quick-growing, gold-leaved selection of common hops. And it looks fresh and new contre classic English wattle fencing made from thin woven branches. Get this look in your own garden by training contre hops a willow trellis or fence.
Golden hop vine ( Humulus lupulus 'Aureus') is a lemon-lime stunner, a favorite quick-growing, gold-leaved selection of common hops. And it looks fresh and new contre classic English wattle fencing made from thin woven branches. Get this look in your own garden by training contre hops a willow trellis or fence.
Debra Prinzing
Plant Combinations
Colourful perennials
a fabulous combo perennial planting bed anchors has featured in Chris Beardshaw's design, At the Heart of the Community, for The Morgan Stanley Healthy Cities Garden. Purple Salvia nemorosa 'Caradonna' peach Verbascum 'Merlin' Several forms of blue Camassia, and a pink-flowering geranium-have-been knitted together in an eye-pleasing way.
Colourful perennials
a fabulous combo perennial planting bed anchors has featured in Chris Beardshaw's design, At the Heart of the Community, for The Morgan Stanley Healthy Cities Garden. Purple Salvia nemorosa 'Caradonna' peach Verbascum 'Merlin' Several forms of blue Camassia, and a pink-flowering geranium-have-been knitted together in an eye-pleasing way.
Debra Prinzing
Earthy mix
Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho founded the organization Sentebale to help vulnerable children in the southern African country of Lesotho. To commemorate the charity's Mamohato Children's Centre, Matt Heightley designed Sentebale - Hope in Vulnerability, qui transport showgoers to the Lesotho landscape.
The vibrant floral pallet plays off the browns and rusts of the hard landscaping. And That Makes it possible to ignore the energizing combination of bright orange wallflower ( Erysimum 'Apricot Twist' and E rysimum 'Winter Red') and yellow-flowering aloe against blue-green euphorbia and Senecio serpens.
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Do'any of contention schemes give you inspiration for your own garden? Or maybe you've already created your dream space outside? Please share your ideas, tips and pictures in the Comments below.
Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho founded the organization Sentebale to help vulnerable children in the southern African country of Lesotho. To commemorate the charity's Mamohato Children's Centre, Matt Heightley designed Sentebale - Hope in Vulnerability, qui transport showgoers to the Lesotho landscape.
The vibrant floral pallet plays off the browns and rusts of the hard landscaping. And That Makes it possible to ignore the energizing combination of bright orange wallflower ( Erysimum 'Apricot Twist' and E rysimum 'Winter Red') and yellow-flowering aloe against blue-green euphorbia and Senecio serpens.
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Do'any of contention schemes give you inspiration for your own garden? Or maybe you've already created your dream space outside? Please share your ideas, tips and pictures in the Comments below.