Water Garden Designs and Landscapes at the Chelsea Show

Barnsley House Spa Gardendesigned by Stephen Woodhams

Barnsley House Spa Gardendesigned by Stephen WoodhamsSilver Flora Award

Contractor: Cotswald Building Services (Tetbury) Ltd.

Barnsley House the garden and home of the great gardener and garden designer Rosemary Verey was the inspiration for this garden, described as a fusion of contemporary and classic Cotswold garden design.

There is a mirrored water wall from which a rill runs into a square pool covered by a clear glass panel. Some how this is the least reminiscent part of the garden that no way captures the water features of Barnsley House and seems quite divorced from the Cotswolds.

Walking Barefoot with Bradstone- Sarah Eberle

Walking Barefoot with Bradstone- Sarah EberleGold Award

Contractor: Hilliers Landscapes.

Another contemporary space, the main feature is a large ornamental pool. There is a concrete causeway that allows the water to move from level to level.

Emphasis is on texture, and colour is limited. There is a green cascade of sedum that represents a waterfall.

Water and its importance and value is emphasised in the drainage system for the garden. Water is collected from the roof of the house (supposedly), channelled to large tanks that are used to balance the water level within the pool. Water is also collected from underneath the paving.

The Cancer Research UK Garden- Andy Sturgeon

The Cancer Research UK Garden- Andy SturgeonGold Award

Contractor: Creative Landscapes

A modern garden to promote healthy lifestyle, it therefore has a swimming pool, but with an infinity edge, with jacuzzi and shaded pavilion. Lots of healthy herbs, shrubs for berries and places to sit protected from the sun.

The Chris Beardshaw Wormcast Garden Chris Beardshaw

The Chris Beardshaw Wormcast Garden Chris BeardshawGold Award

Contractor: Peter Dowle Plants and Gardens.

This is to celebrate the school for special needs adults at Boveridge House in Dorset. It has a Growing For Life initiative to train these people in the skills of gardening. The garden at Boveridge House is a unique design creation of Gertrude Jekyll and Thomas Mawson. Chris Beardshaw has tried to recreate the trademark design features of these designers.

Ravine Garden: Gift of the Glacier Catharina Malmberg-Snodgrass and Frank Gardner Lakeland Forest Garden Club

Ravine Garden: Gift of the GlacierSilver-Gilt Flora Award

Contractor: Scenic Blue.

Inspired by the Chicago area of natural ravines formed in the last galacial era. Here you can find rare indigenous plants that love cool temperatures and fresh water. These are in danger with further changes in the climate. A multi-tiered glass sculpture represents a glacier that covered the region 8-14000 years ago. A ravine flows with melting water. The runoff forms a pool reminiscent of Lake Michigan.

The Telegraph Garden- Tom Stuart-Smith

The Telegraph Garden- Tom Stuart-SmithGold Award and Best in Show

Contractor: Crocus/Waterers.

A minimal asymetric plan with a study in the colour theme of rust. Water runs in a narrow rill at the bottom of a rust coloured wall and hedge. In parts it is hidden and places you can touch it. Designer Andrew Ewing has been creative with it. Paving is oak boarding and Herefordshire cobbles.

Flemings Nurseries Sharing the Experience- Dean Herald

Flemings Nurseries Sharing the Experience- Dean HeraldGold Award

Contractor: Rolling Stone Landscapes.

This is a fully functional outdoor barbeque/kitchen for Australia. A dining table incorporates a water feature running between glass panels before falling into a pond.

The glass has inscriptions that are meant to be a conversation piece.

The Rockwool Garden Room Homes and Gardens Designer: Barry Mayled. Homes and Gardens Architecture and Garden Design

The Rockwool Garden Room Homes and Gardens Designer: Barry MayledBronze Flora

Contractor: Gwynne G Jones & Sons.

A demonstration of how to relate the garden to the inside of a house. The Garden Room is an energy efficient alternative to a conservatory. The symmetry of the garden provides a contrast to the asymmetry of the Garden Room. The water feature is a central garden pool with an inverted bowl spout. Around the pool is a rope path and at the back is a seat of polished white stone.

Garden Africa Kent Design Ltd, Designers Allen Capper and Ross Allen.

Garden Africa Kent Design LtdSilver-Gilt Flora

Contractor: Various associates including the designers, Garden Africa personnel, staff from Kew Gardens and John Nzira.

The garden aims to promote garden related support for sub-Saharan peoples in order to help combat malnutrition and disease. There is a multi-use planting using the ground to its maximum potential and producing materials for fodder, medicinals, composting, windbreaks, shade and natural deterrence.

Water comes in drainage channels leading to a central mandala.

The Laurent Perrier Garden Designer Jiny Blom

The Laurent Perrier Garden Designer Jiny BlomSilver-gilt award

Contactor: Crocus

Romantic, contemporary and French! The chalky landscape of the French Champagne region is displayed as a potential for ornamental gardneing.

An L-shaped pool is meant to be a spring fed pool for trout.

Leeds City Council Garden - Parks and Countryside Services designed and built.

Leeds City Council GardenBronze Flora Award

The garden celebrates the industrial heritage and the recent economic success of Leeds. This recreation of a old mill makes the perfect water feature for a split level. The modern glass sculpture represents the River Aire and the development of the old Leeds canals. It also provides reflections of the changing seasons. The sculpture also emphasises the modern style of the steel wall, also representing the new Leeds style of architecture.

The Savills Garden Marcus Barnett and Phillip Dixon

The Savills Garden Marcus Barnett and Phillip DixonGold Award

Contractor: Mark Gregory

A garden inspired by Modernist architecture of Mies van der Rohe. Particularly Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois -1951.

A path across the water creates a sense of journey (apparently), to arrive at the Modernist building at the rear, a place of refuge or for entertaining.

The Jurassic Coast Garden Marshall James Development Ltd designer Nick Williams-Ellis.

The Jurassic Coast Garden Marshall James Development LtdSilver Flora Award

Contractor: Marshall-James/Abbotsbury

The garden aims to remind us of the Jurassic coast on the south coast around Abbotsbury and the remarkable sub-tropical gardens there. Here are fossils, Purbeck stone and prehistoric plants. The ammonite is the motif of inspiration. Water is an essential element cascading into a naturalistic pool and running along a shallow stream bed, running from prehistory into a canalised cut stone from modern times. There are real dinosaur prints in the rock of the pathway.

A Garden of Tranquility Outdoor Garden Design Unit with Pavestone Designer: Geoff Whiten

A Garden of Tranquility Outdoor Garden Design Unit with PavestoneSilver Floral Award

Contractor: Landscape Concepts

 

A budget garden of style. Affordable inspiration. Tiny water features.

The Gorillas Jungle Garden Zoological Society of London- Designer: Graham Pockett

The Gorillas Jungle Garden Zoological Society of LondonSilver Floral

Contractor: Landform Consultants

 

Inspired by the London Zoo primate enclosure that tries to create the illusion of a West African forest. Gorillas create clearings in the jungle called bais, which are often swampy. Water cascades down a bank and flows towards the front. An eco-hotel allows humans to stay in the jungle to observe the animals.

The Saga Insurance Garden Saga Insurance Designer: Cleve West

The Saga Insurance Garden Saga Insurance Gold Award

Contractor: Henley Salt

Celebrating the migration of plants around the world, focussing in on hardy and half-hardy herbs (many supplied by Jekka McVicar). Useful for their ornamental, culinary and medicinal purposes they play an important part in our lives.

The Halifax Garden These Four Walls Stuart Perry Consultants

The Halifax Garden These Four Walls Stuart Perry ConsultantsSilver Flora Award

Contractor: Michael D. Chewter Landscapes

 

The aim is to show how good garden design can create an extra room for the modern home. It is meant to contain the essence of the Scandinavian countryside relaxing and functional. There is a glass waterfall a bench from New Zealand. The glass in the waterfall is the biggest single piece of glass ever used in the UK and possibly Europe 2.4m tall, 8m wide and weighing 2000kg.

4 Head Garden of Dreams Marney Hall

4 Head Garden of Dreams Marney HallSilverGilt Flora

Contractor: Squires Landscapes

A stress-relieving garden, illustrating the medicinal benefits of plants including their calming and soporific qualities. A small stream emerges from below some tree roots towards a central pool that has an island on which there is a living sculpture. This is the mudmaid from the Lost Gardens of Heligan created by Sue Hill and Peter Hill of the Eden Project.

The 100% Pure New Zealand Garden Designer Xanthe White

The 100% Pure New Zealand Garden Designer Xanthe WhiteSilver-Gilt Flora Award

Contractor: Thompson Landscapes

 

Here is the unique landscape and contemporary culture of New Zealand.

On the West coast near Aukland the wild nature and the city merge. Water flows from the hilltop to the shore embracing and softening the harsh architecture of the city. There is a black sand beach with a native rainforest recalling the Waitakere Ranges that Xanthe remembers in her childhood.