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Garden design awards announced at the Spring Fair 2024
BBC Gardeners ’ World giver , Frances Tophill , has presented awards to talented designers , landscape gardening teams and gardening student for their stunning show gardens at the BBC Gardeners ’ World Spring Fair at Beaulieu in the New Forest . The colorful , plant life - packed , annual Spring Fair is a festivity of the start of the spring horticulture and mature time of year and is expected to attract yard of 20,000 visitors between 3—5 May .
With twenty Feature and Showcase Gardens , Beautiful Borders and College Competition Gardens to take in , the Spring Fair ’s venire of show assessors had a tough job on their hands . Assessing the striking Showcase and College Competition Gardens were multi prize - bring home the bacon garden interior decorator , Richard Barnard ( Kings Oak Landscapes ) , Pippa Probert ( BBC Two Your Garden Made Perfect , Outer Spaces Landscaping and Design ) and Professor David Stevens . For the Beautiful Borders , assessors were Ian Hodgson , editor of Garden News , Anita Foy , the Hampshire - based garden designer , and Phil Tremayne , General Manager of the Association of Professional Landscapers .
Best Showcase Gardenand a Platinum award were presented to honour - succeed landscape graphic designer Matt Le Gassick , founder of Inbud , for The Inner Dancer . The garden was designed in partnership with Great Oaks School , a specialist secondary shoal in Southampton for young people with complex learning difficulties .
Best Beautiful Borderand aPlatinum awardwere presented to Southampton - based garden designers Andrew Williamson and Laura Hall forTogether . The designing was root on by the warm , welcoming and supportive quad furnish for people affected by cancer at Maggie ’s Southampton , and featured two unproblematic pulley block bench set amongst a woodland - mode clearing with soft , calming color and textures .
Best Interpretation of the Theme(Share My Space ) was grant to Pamela Barden from Woking - based Painted Fern Garden Design forThe Synthesis Border , a design featuring nectar - rich plant life species and nature - friendly features like a stone - filled kitty and a hedgehog house .
Best College Gardenand a Platinum award were confront to faculty and students from Guildford - free-base Merrist Wood College forEquilibrium . The budget - favorable excogitation included a living roof , recycle , upcycled and repurposed feature article , and two very different plant areas , one drought - large-minded and one flood - tolerant .
Modern year , new garden , unexampled trends !
We ’re through the garden gate into 2023 , with a host of gardening trends blossom throughout the country . Fromhouse plantsreaching dizzying heights of popularity , to the colour of the twelvemonth ‘ Viva Magenta’,read on for our full listing of trends .
To get up close and personal with fresh garden inspiration , new plant , the latest gardening outfit and more , join us in 2023 .
Colour of the Year 2023
script - pick by Pantone , the people of color of the year has been named as ‘ Viva Magenta .
Pantone describe the color as‘brave and fearless , and a pulsate colour whose ebullience promotes a joyous and optimistic solemnization , write a new narrative . ’
Discover a world of colouration and scent in the stunningFloral Marquee , bursting with award - winning nursery and video display .
Sustainable gardening
Whilst your garden might seem to already be very unripe , it can always be fleeceable !
Discover ways you could make gardening more sustainable , like upcycling common items to make fashionable features . What was a pallet , hessian handbag , bits of pipe , and tin cans , could become a plantation owner , grow bag , water characteristic , and wildlife habitats .
Be inspired by the BBC Gardeners ’ World Magazine column team as they ’re conjoin by experts to give tips and advice .
Grow your own food
Looking to go from grunge to supper this year ? Get brilliant advice from the National Allotment Society at the event .
Peat-free gardening
Learn about the latest peat - free compost from shower who can offer face - to - grimace advice .
Indoor gardening
Foliage does n’t just belong to alfresco – wreak nature indoors and be prompt by the Houseplant Hub .
Mindful gardening
Beautiful Borders returns with this year ’s theme ‘ My Garden Escape ’ to give you space savvy ideas .
Gardening on a budget
unwrap different way you’re able to let your garden bloom under a tight budget , with advice from expert gardener .
Fermented foods
Visit the BBC Good Food Summer Show ( with free entry with your ticket ! ) and unwrap the latest foodie trend .
Feeling pep up ? Find out what else is happening at BBC Gardeners ’ World go this June !
