Perennial returns to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in May 2019 with a Great Pavilion garden designed by first meter Chelsea house decorator Colm Joseph and Duncan Cargill . invigorate by Sir Roy Strong ’s autobiographic The Laskett Gardens , The Perennial Lifeline Garden , highlights the long - standing and ever - evolving role of Perennial in supporting everyone working in and retired from horticulture .
Chosen follow a design competition run together with by Perennial and the London College of Garden Design , Colm and Duncan ’s garden lionise Perennial ’s function at the heart of horticulture and captures the spirit of Sir Roy Strong CH and Julia Trevelyan Oman ’s The Laskett Gardens , which Sir Roy bequeathed to Perennial in 2015 .
Colm says : “ We are honoured to have been choose to represent Perennial at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2019 and to work with Sir Roy Strong CH on the display . We hope our plan vibrate with visitors to the show who will be able to walk through the garden , explore the familiar , reimagined . ”
Duncan says : “ The garden keep invention inheritance but reinterpret classical principles and elements with an eye on the time to come . Just as Perennial has adapted over the last 180 year to facilitate countless people in the gardening industriousness manage challenging times , we desire the garden takes the estimable from the past tense while encompass the future . ”
The Perennial Lifeline Garden feature a classical roseate garden reimagined as a more sustainable and dispirited maintenance ‘ rose meadow ’ . rose intermix with cosmetic grasses , perennials and annuals to make a striking and texturally ample display with long seasonal interest . allow formality and social organisation , three forms of hedge ( beech , yew and hornbeam ) are asymmetrically arrange and crop to varying heights , while classic sculpture is replaced by the organic forms of multi - stem Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , help to cast views through the blank . Freestanding metallic element screens , stone and topiary columns and a span of modern ‘ fountains ’ coalesce in a forward-looking reimagining of a classical colonnade , in which visitant can move around and take the air beneath the cascades . A modern-day streamlet flows through and around the garden , supply life and sound to the structural engraft elements , representing the ‘ lifeline ’ that Perennial is so often described as by the people it supports .
Anita Bates , Director of Marketing and Fundraising at Perennial says : “ Our aim in 2019 is simple – to reach more people than ever before with the message that Perennial is here to help everyone who work on in gardening . From nurseryman to greenkeepers , C. S. Forester to landscape designers , if you wreak with plants , tree or turf , we ’re your lifeline when time get tough . We ’re thrilled with Colm and Duncan ’s pattern and look onwards to speaking to visitors about how recurrent is both settle down in the story of the UK horticulture diligence and evolving to control its people boom well into the future . ”
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