“Being in a garden takes you away from the everyday stresses of life. I’m so pleased to be able to provide information and guidance for people and encourage them to make the most of their outdoor spaces and start gardening.


“During the Covid pandemic we all found out how gardening is really good for us both for physical health and mental health.


“Even touching the soil brings benefits: research shows us that this increases serotonin levels in the brain and heightens the feel good factor in the human body.


“There’s something in nurturing; a connection when you sow a seed and become responsible for nurturing it as it grows into a plant. There’s a sense of achievement as you watch it grow.


“I imagine it’s like having a child.” Manoj Malde.


“There’s constant change in the garden and I urge people to just try things out with panels painted with different colours and look at those boards every day, at different times to see what’s happening to those colours.


“Are they working in the garden or do they look dirty or just disappear?


“When I did my first garden at Chelsea, that’s how I went about choosing the strong colours I used and I encourage my garden design clients to do it too.”


Along with encouraging people to become more colour ful, Manoj recommends exper imenting wi th shapes too.


This year he used hexagons in his garden at Chelsea and saw them in several other designs. He believes more and more people will adopt it in their own outdoor spaces in the months to come.


“People are looking for something a bit different, something that’s not the norm. It’s a shape that’s found so much in nature and which can be joined together to make some really dynamic shapes.


“I’m seeing hexagon paving slabs and I’m sure they’ll be developing them in porcelain too. It’s also possible to create hexagon-shaped pergolas and garden rooms, and have hexagon pots.”


As well as inspiring people to be bolder wi th colour, Manoj is keen to simply encourage more people to create their own gardens and experience the myr iad benef its of being outside in a beautiful space and at one with nature.


To this end he wrote Your Garden Room: How to Design a Garden You Can Live In, published last year, which seek s to provide a simple guide showing how anyone can make a lovely space notwithstanding thei r sk ills, budget or exper ience.


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Manoj is a man on a mission to make gardens accessible to all and feels his biggest achievement to date is being a person f rom an ethnic background who has created medal-winning show gardens for the wor ld famous RHS Chelsea Flower Show, opening the door for other aspir ing designers f rom a range of backgrounds.


“I just think that if you want to be part of something, then you have to make it happen,” he says. “My first garden for Chelsea was very different from the usual garden design ‘handwriting’ and I wanted to make sure it stood out.”


Hear Manoj, and other well-known faces from the world of gardening, at the Malvern Autumn Show, which takes place from 26th to 28th September at Three Counties Showground. For more information visit: www.malvernautumn.co.uk


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