COTSWOLD Garden
Jinny Blom, designer of the B&Q Sentebale Forget-Me-Not Garden with actress Emilia Fox and presenter Kirstie Allsopp
100 years and still blooming!
All eyes were on last year’s Chelsea Flower Show, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2013. Sue Bradley looks back to how Gloucestershire made its presence felt last year and forward to what we can expect in May. Photos by Lynn Keddie
A PRINCE, gnomes and a giant orchid came together to make the RHS Chelsea Flower Show’s centenary an event to remember. Among the special events laid on to
celebrate the landmark anniversary was the unveiling of the sculpture ‘The Rush of Nature’, created by Marc Quinn and cast at the Pangolin Editions foundry in Chalford. This multi-coloured bronze orchid was subsequently donated to the RHS’s Centenary appeal to help future gardeners.
18 COTSWOLDESSENCE | March - 2014 The significance of the 2013 event was
also marked by the lifting of the ban on gnomes for one year only to raise money for the nationwide RHS Campaign for School Gardening. Cotswolds-based designer and BBC
broadcaster Chris Beardshaw was the people’s choice at the show with his very personal gold medal-winning garden created for Arthritis Research UK. Chris, who was found to have a form of
rheumatoid arthritis while he was in his mid-teens, came up with a design that
reflected the personal journey and emotions of somebody with the disease, ranging from confusion and lack of understanding following a diagnosis to a point at which they are informed about their symptoms and able to manage their pain. The three key areas of the garden
included a ‘veiled’ section filled with muted colours and a woodland canopy that restricted any views, together with a contemporary glass retreat . This space related to the ‘fog’ of pain familiar to
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