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The APL is proud to announce all four of the Low Cost, High Impact gardens have won medals at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Mid Century Modern, designed


by Adele Ford and Susan Wilmott and built by Outdoor Creations won Best in Category and Gold for their 1950’s inspired garden. The design featured shapes, patterns and colours from advertising of the time. It had a large central feature with hanging furniture and bold, large leaves and structural plants to compliment the bold, bright design of the garden.


A Room with a View, designed


by Mike Harvey and built by Arun Landscapes also won a prestigious Gold. Built on a budget on £15,000, the garden design consisted of a secluded, raised seating area with a


Clean sweep of medals for Low Cost, High Impact


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view. It comprised of muted tones of weathered oak and rusty ‘curtain’ combining with the greens, browns, whites and greys of the planting. Surrey Gardens added another medal to their belt by winning Silver for Bugs in Boots. The garden was inspired by the work undertaken by the RHS Plants for Pollinators project and provided an ecological space for insects, birds and other wildlife. It is designed to fl ood in


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heavy rainfall, allowing water to slowly permeate into the soil as opposed to passing water on to other attenuated systems. Silver also went to In at the Deep End designed by Monty Richardson and built by Living Gardens. Created on a budget of £7,000, the focal point of the garden was a fl oating patio seating area and steps surrounded by bog style borders with beautiful


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planting and a paddle stone water feature. The garden highlighted solutions to the drainage issues experienced in many gardens.


1 Mid Century Modern, by Adele Ford and Susan Willmott.


2 Bugs in Boots by Surrey Gardens.


3 A Room with a View, by Mike Harvey and Arun Landscapes.


4 In at the Deep End by Monty Richardson.


BALI briefi ng Affi liate members leading the way


BALI’s Affi liate membership, which boasts some of the landscape industry’s leading suppliers of products and services, has been strutting its stuff this summer with some great industry events. At the end of June, Europlants – UK agents for Italian nursery


12 August 2013


Vannucci Piante – invited BALI’s Chief Operations Offi cer Wayne Grills to attend the inauguration of Vannucci’s Nursery Park, the fi rst of its kind in Europe. Industry and media guests from across Europe toured the amazing site, which provides buyers with the


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opportunity to see an incredible range of specimen plants in a parkland setting. Wayne also visited


Vannucci’s main nursery and a number of satellite nurseries that provide stock for Vannucci’s


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