Property, Homes & Gardens Mid Kent Living Advertisement feature Designer gardens to inspire...


The weekend before the glorious Chelsea Flower Show saw the opening event of the second Jacksons show gardens initiative. The gardens were the result of a competition run by Jacksons Fencing aimed at garden designers, with the prize being the chance to have their design built.


In May last year, celebrity TV


gardener Joe Swift unveiled four fantastic show gardens for Jacksons at the company’s headquarters in Kent. This year’s opening also involved Joe doing the honours - declaring three new gardens and the four original gardens, all of which have been revamped for the new season, now open to visitors.


The gardens showcase


products from Jacksons, and other top quality garden suppliers, in inspirational show gardens that wouldn’t look out of place at any of the big garden shows. The difference is, Chelsea may be over and done with by the time you read this, but Jacksons show gardens are open to the public, not just for a week like many garden shows, but all year round, giving visitors who may never have had the chance before, ample opportunity to see a show garden and get inspiration for their own garden projects.


This year’s competition winners


are ‘The Fragrant Front Garden’ by Justine Jobson, ‘The Chill Out Garden’ by Helen Elks-Smith and


‘The Paradise Garden’ by Mary Ann Le


May.


Justine was one of only two designers who thought to create a front garden using Jacksons’ steel railings and she also put other products to ingenious use. Helen’s garden is a space to relax and unwind, with a wild flower lawn, hammock and footbridges over a moat. The paradise garden, however, is bound to cause a stir – it comes complete with five colourful water windows, ripples in the sand and a rill running down to a pool where the water is then recycled.


There is something to suit


many different tastes in the gardens, from ultra-modern Jacksons prototype perspex fencing surrounding the paradise garden, to a very traditional elegant new range of garden railings, eminently suitable in a period property’s front garden, as featured in the fragrant front garden. There is also an array of products from other good quality suppliers, like the fun and funky shade sails in the centred garden


and The Lapa Company’s wonderful tiki bar in Jacksons Goes to the Seaside, which, after its revamp is more like Jacksons goes


to the Caribbean. The


products are all there to delight and inspire you with your own outdoor spaces, whether they are large or small.


Buy online at www.jacksons-fencing.co.uk or call 0800 41 43 43 for your Good Fencing Guide showing the complete range of fencing, gates, decking, pergolas, security and agriculture products and much more...


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