Family team wins garden design contest by going back to nature

A FATHER-AND-SON garden design team from West Bridgford will take centre stage at BBC Gardeners’ World Live this week.

Creative Roots, based in Portland Road, is one of four winners of Metamorphosis – a garden design competition – and will get to showcase its designs in front of a large audience.

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   Innovative: Above, garden designers Neil and Keith Sutcliffe. Below, the garden that Creative Roots are building for the BBC Gardeners’ World Live show this week.

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Keith Sutcliffe, who runs Creative Roots with his son Neil, will be challenged to create the garden designed by Neil out of a set list of materials and plants at the show.

Keith has over 30 years of building experience and is a trained stonemason as well as a skilled bricklayer.

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His garden will be 6x6m in size and will receive approximately £6,000 worth of materials plus funding of £3,000 for plants and associated costs.

Featuring three waterfalls, its theme will be “back to nature”.

Keith, who is building the garden, said: “Neil entered the competition with his design without me knowing and I was very surprised when he told me we were one of the winners.

“It’s great and a prestigious competition, so we are very happy to be here.

“Our theme is about getting back to nature and working with materials to see how man has had an impact on nature.

“We want to take this success and see how far we can go.”

Cleve West, multiple Best in Show designer at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, is ambassador for the competition this year.

He said judging the entries to the Metamorphosis category was difficult.

He said: “It was a very tough decision to make as the quality of the competition entries was very high. The four winning designs really stood out for their innovative use of the materials, depth in design and clever use of space in a relatively small 6x6m garden.”

The show will be running at the NEC in Birmingham from tomorrow until Sunday.