After an eight years absence, garden designer Roger Platts, is retuning to Chelsea to build show sponsor M&G's show garden.
The design will be traditionally themed of crescent shaped pathways leading to an oak summer house and a hidden sandstone-edged pool complimented with lush planting - including rambling roses, lavender, fox gloves and myrtle.
M&G's brief to Platts was for a garden that visitors really love - is a dig at last years lack lustre, recession ravished affair?
M&G's Jacqui Haskins said: “We want a garden that visitors will really love – a design that is quintessentially British yet containing one or two surprising features. Roger will use mostly locally-grown plants and locally-sourced materials to create a garden of the highest quality,”.
Roger said; “I am hugely excited to be back creating a big garden at Chelsea. I’ve had other offers to be at the show, but the time feels right and M&G’s brand, values and aspiration to bring something special to Chelsea for people who love gardening is a fantastic opportunity I couldn’t turn down.”
Image: Monty Don at Chelsea 2009
Greetings from the USA!
Will you be posting any videos on the Chelsea show on your site? I would like to invite you to share your Chelsea show videos on my online garden TV talk show, the "Garden World Report. We have a large international audience that would enjoy viewing your press reports from the show.
In the USA, the Garden World Report is covering many of the major consumer and trade garden shows and creating video reports. We would be happy to share these with you and your readers if you are interested. Are you interested in a cooperative, international "sharing" relationship?
I am excited to hear from you.
Shirley Bovshow
Garden World Report Show
Producer and Host
Los Angeles, CA USA
Posted by: Shirley Bovshow | Feb 05, 2010 at 07:20 AM