A tranquil show garden featuring a rustic dry stone wall structure with wooden beams, a flagstone path, wooden seating, and abundant naturalistic planting with a twisted dead tree and a circular metal tree bench.
Show Garden Gold Medal

Lifted by Birds

Designed by Tom Saunders, Jon Pilling, Amie Wheeldon
Photo: GardensDB
About this garden

The story

Lifted by Birds is a peaceful, nature‑rich garden designed to support British birdlife. It brings together habitats like meadow edges, woodland areas, wetlands, stone features and quiet sheltered spots. These spaces give birds places to feed, nest, rest and move safely through the garden. Visitors can watch birds in their natural behaviour, from blackbirds searching the ground to blue tits finding insects in branches or wrens stopping for water. The garden is set out like a rural cottage landscape and offers a calming place to slow down, notice wildlife and reconnect with nature.

Awards

Recognition

  • Gold Medal
    RHS
  • People's Choice Best Show Garden
    RHS
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Key Plants 6

Deschampsia cespitosa
Geranium sanguineum
Malus sylvestris
Silene flos-cuculi
Sorbus aucuparia
Viburnum opulus

Trees 4

Betula nigra
Betula pendula
Malus sylvestris
Sorbus aucuparia

Shrubs & Hedging 7

Corylus avellana
Crataegus monogyna
Fagus sylvatica
Ilex aquifolium
Ligustrum vulgare
Prunus spinosa
Viburnum opulus

Climbing Plants 3

Hedera helix
Lonicera periclymenum
Rosa canina

Grasses 2

Deschampsia cespitosa
Panicum virgatum

Marginals 9

Caltha palustris
Cardamine pratensis
Carex
Cornus alba 'Sibirica'
Iris sibirica
Knautia arvensis
Mentha cervina
Ranunculus aquatilis
Silene flos-cuculi

Herbaceous Perennials 11

Achillea millefolium
Bellis perennis
Chamaemelum nobile
Cichorium intybus
Digitalis purpurea
Leucanthemum vulgare
Prunella vulgaris
Saxifraga × urbium
Silene dioica
Tragopogon porrifolius
Tragopogon pratensis

Meadow 55

Achillea millefolium
Achillea millefolium 'Cerise Queen'
Achillea millefolium 'Summer Pastels'
Amsonia tabernaemontana
Aster amellus
Lythrum salicaria
Campanula latifolia
Campanula persicifolia
Cardamine pratensis
Centaurea nigra
Cirsium vulgare
Daucus carota
Dianthus carthusianorum
Dipsacus fullonum
Echinops ritro
Echium vulgare
Eryngium planum
Euphorbia polychroma
Foeniculum vulgare 'Purpureum'
Galium verum
Gaura lindheimeri
Geranium pratense
Geum 'Mrs Bradshaw'
Hyssopus officinalis
Leucanthemum vulgare
Limonium latifolium
Linaria vulgaris
Linum perenne
Lotus corniculatus
Lupinus perennis
Lychnis chalcedonica
Lychnis coronaria
Lychnis flos-cuculi
Silene flos-cuculi 'Alba'
Lysimachia punctata
Lythrum salicaria
Malva moschata 'Alba'
Myosotis sylvatica
Oenothera missouriensis
Oenothera odorata
Origanum vulgare
Papaver orientale 'Brilliant'
Primula candelabra 'Candelabra Mixed'
Primula denticulata
Prunella vulgaris
Pulsatilla vulgaris
Ranunculus acris
Rudbeckia fulgida
Salvia pratensis 'Rose'
Sanguisorba tenuifolia
Saponaria officinalis
Scabiosa columbaria
Silene maritima
Verbascum nigrum 'Alba'
Veronica incana

Ferns 2

Asplenium scolopendrium
Blechnum spicant