Small Show Garden
Gold Medal
Gold Medal
The Addleshaw Goddard: Freedom To Flourish Garden
Designed by Joe Carey, Laura Carey
Photo: GardensDB
About this garden
The story
This garden advocates against the rising tide of ‘being too busy’. Inspired by a Norfolk colloquialism (slow you down), the design explores the mental health benefits of living an unhurried lifestyle, spending time in nature, gardens and gardening.
Taking its cue from the landscape of North Norfolk, gabions filled with natural materials represent coastal cliffs and also provide habitats for wildlife. The planting palette has a base colour of sandy tones in the bark of feature trees –Heptacodium miconioides, and flowering grasses.
Layers of lilac and indigo colours pair with peach tones in the flowers of Oenothera odorata ‘Apricot Delight’, Baptisia australis and Hesperis matronalis. The beds in the Garden feature many flowers that grow wild in the Norfolk landscape, including Silene vulgaris, Erigeron glaucus, Armeria maritima and Rumex sanguineus.
Silene vulgaris echoes the sandy tones of the hard landscaping and wildflower feel of the planting. Erigeron glaucus ‘Sea Breeze'’is a common feature of the sea cliffs and Crambe maritima, grows on shingle beaches in North Norfolk tying in with the Garden’s tidal narrative.
Awards
Recognition
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Gold MedalRHS
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RHS Chelsea Small Garden of the YearRHS -
Best Construction AwardRHS
The people behind it
Designers
Planting
Plant lists
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Key Plants 3
Heptacodium micanioides
Phacelia tanacetifolia
Salix elaeagnos subsp. angustifolia
Full List 47
Allium eros
Allium siculum
Armeria maritima
Artemisia 'Valerie Finnis'
Artemisia schmidtiana 'Nana'
Briza media
Bupleurum fruticosum
Cardamine pratensis
Carex divulsa Schkuhr
Carex muskingumensis
Crambe maritima
Darmera peltata
Deschampsia cespitosa
Digitalis lanata 'Cafe Creme'
Erigeron glaucus 'Sea Breeze'
Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve'
Eschscholzia californica 'Thai Silk Pink Champagne'
Euphorbia mellifera
Euphorbia myrsinites
Euphorbia oblongata
Euphorbia segueriana subsp. niciciana
Geranium maderense
Heptacodium micanioides
Hesperis matronalis
Iris × robusta 'Gerald Darby'
Ligusticum scoticum
Lychnis flos-cuculi 'Alba'
*Mathiasella bupleuroides* 'Green Dream'
Melanoselinum decipiens
Oenothera odorata 'Apricot Delight'
Orlaya grandiflora
Papaver nudicaule 'Champagne Bubbles White F1'
Papaver rhoeas 'Amazing Grey'
Papaver rhoeas 'Mother of Pearl Group'
Phacelia tanacetifolia
Phillyrea latifolia
Phlomis purpurea
Rosa spinosissima 'Dunwich Rose'
'Rosmarinus officinalis' 'Prostratus'
Rumex sanguinea
Salix rosmarinifolia
Salvia pratensis
Sesleria nitida
Silene vulgaris
Tellima grandiflora
Thalictrum 'Black Stockings'
Verbascum
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