The Ecover Garden, by Matthew Childs
The Ecover Garden is based on the fundamental principle that water is life, and that while we depend upon our aquatic environments, we simultaneously threaten them with pollution, from waste plastic in the oceans and toxic residues in our rivers and lakes. The key message promoted throughout the garden is sustainability, with sustainable materials used in the garden, including recycled plastics, lime render and mulched beds to reduce water loss. Plastic is used in innovative ways, with a toilet cleaner fountain, bottle handle bench and laundry cap lamp, reflecting sponsor Ecover’s ecologically sound cleaning products.
Tip of the Iceberg, by Caroline Tait and John Esling
Caroline Tait and John Esling have designed Tip of the Iceberg, a garden featuring a multi-faceted mass of fridges arranged to reflect the form of an iceberg. The design recalls roadside ‘fridge mountains’, symbolic of society’s wastefulness with resource, and conjures up an iceberg, cold and unwelcoming, but iconic of global warming and our role in promoting it. The garden is intended to provoke thought and make something beautiful from the discarded building blocks of consumer society.
The Clints and Grykes Garden by Benedict Green
Benedict Green has created the Clints and Grykes Garden to encourage the use of an alternative to water worn limestone in garden settings. The rare habitats of British limestone pavements were heavily quarried for garden rockeries until recent protection, however, as imported stone becomes less viable due to increased transportation costs, high carbon footprint, currency fluctuations and increased domestic demand, more pressure will be placed on British sources. Extraction risks damage to picturesque settings, and this garden demonstrates a unique, sustainable alternative.
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