The Daily Telegraph Garden
designed by Andy Sturgeon
This garden was a 'captured landscape’ – a gently gardened place within a larger, wilder setting where dramatic bronze fins represented an ancient mountain range with a stream of melt water running in the rock-strewn gorge below. Inspired by the magnitude of geological events which have shaped our landscape over millions of years, the garden played on the perspective of time and scale to remind us of our own relatively fleeting moment on earth.
Plants were selected from similar natural habitats (warm, semi-arid regions in about 32 different countries) to create a unique planting scheme future-proofed against climate change. Foliage colours were predominantly dusty greens and grey-green; flower forms included tall spikes, umbels and daisies in white, orange, yellow, rust and purple. Many were unusual plants that had not been seen before at Chelsea.
The hard landscaping used windows of cor-ten steel, with raised linear walkways and dry stone walls of limestone. All of which was offset with beautiful planting in a palette of orange, citrus and purple.
