Crowe Garden Design - Bespoke Garden Design In Essex

This year on visiting the RHS Chelsea flower show a single garden created an impact like no other, a reaction that was felt deep within the sub-conscious. It felt right, it brought an emotional response that was so strong it surprised as much as anything.

 

Standing quietly amongst the crowds, trying desperately to drink it all in, the garden by Luciano Giubbilei (also seen referred to as Luciano Pavarotti, but Garibaldi works just as well.) for Laurent Perrier champagne stood strong and without compromise. The stepped hedging was what drew the eye in, something I had submitted as a concept during my course work, seen here realised. Luciano achieved Gold, my concept did not.

 

It was a shame that the garden was not larger, it could have been so had there not been some of the 'fill-in' stands and exhibits resulting from the loss of sponsors. The garden could be scaled up or down quite easily and this viewer wanted more. Imagine the impact had the garden been twice as wide, or even twice the length.

 

Yet my colleague in crime that day was less impressed, a design on the level, perhaps rather formulaic. If the formula works why change it? The lack of 'flowers' or 'blooms' was not in itself a problem, in fact it added to the impact. If only the garden could have been entered for a few moments alone.

 

On seeing that HortWeek was running a small 'competition' for the 'best comment' regarding a show garden at this year's Chelsea flower show it seemed right to post one. Luck favoured the brave and the call came through to say that this comment had been drawn from 'the hat' as the winner and that a bottle of champagne was on it's way.

 

As a novice (wimpole and habits, still stiff with starch) blogger, tweeter and comment poster (?) this success rate (100%) has led to considering the future. Should the next logical step be to develop literary skills? Might this simple, basic comment lead to bigger fish? Could there be a world of words out there to be explored? Well probably not, one comment does not a Clement Freud one become. It has been quite fun though.

 

The bottle of champagne arrived this morning, very promptly, but it is not a Laurent Perrier as might have been expected, no, it is a Moet & Chandon. Oh the irony, smiles all round. Thank you to Horticulture Week.