HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? RECYCLING AND REUSING
Having worked for years as a designer in the luxury home building market, Sara Edwards decided to combine her design experience with her passion for plants into a garden design business. To launch No.30 Design Studio, she designed and built a show garden at RHS Malvern Spring Festival and was awarded a coveted Gold Medal and ‘Best in Category’. Sara now works with discerning clientele throughout the borders and West Midlands to bring their dream gardens to life.
In my September column I announced I was going to be at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021, with my Container Garden ‘The IBC Pocket Forest’ and the editor thought it would be for me to follow it up with my experience at the show, for my last column of the season.
Well, what can I say? As I write this it has been just over two weeks since I left the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, and it feels like it never happened, the same feeling you have after getting back of a wonderful holiday and have waded through two weeks of emails. BUT it most certainly did happen, and it was an astonishing and exhausting experience.
After months of preparation on Saturday, September 11 all the Intermediate Bulk Containers (IBC’s) I had repurposed and cut down to different sized planters and a pond, the benches made from parts of the pallets and all the other elements, tools and kit needed for the build and show duration were loaded into a van and driven down to London and unloaded on site. I returned to London the next day ready to start the build Monday morning. Day one on site was a 7am start, kitted out in steel toe cap boots and hi vis, me, and my team of two friends from the industry. The garden needed to be complete in five long days and it was a tight schedule, but we did it.
Everyone talks about the press day on the Monday at Chelsea, where all the celebrities and stars come out in their finery, along with the world’s media and press, but the media also come around on the Sunday too. I had photos taken of the garden and me for the Metro newspaper and the BBC filmed a segment with Rachel de Thame for the Sunday evening coverage of the show and filmed their overhead shots with their boom camera. It takes a surprisingly long time to film a segment that may only last a couple of minutes on screen.
Photo Credit : Stephen Studd Photography 55
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