One of Oswestry’s top garden designers is hoping for an RHS Gold medal this year with her garden creation for this year’s show.
Teresa Rham from Groundesigns
The countdown has begun for Teresa Rham, from Groundesigns in Shropshire, who next month will be displaying a wow-factor Show Garden at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival.
Teresa’s creation has been entitled “Ooooh…..It Makes Me Wonder.” It will sit alongside eight other show gardens at the highly anticipated four-day event that takes place from May 8 until May 11 at the Three Counties Showground, in Malvern, Worcestershire. Organisers of the RHS Malvern Spring Festival promise a horticultural banquet like never before with visitors being treated to an abundance of beautifully designed spaces and perfect planting schemes.
Nina Acton, Show Development Officer for RHS Malvern, said:
“We are really excited about the Show Gardens this year. With a record number, we will be awash with beautiful plants and inspirational designs.”
The Groundesigns show garden will represent a physical manifestation of Teresa’s thoughts on what we might experience as our consciousness moves to a more ethereal state when our physical existence ends.
Describing her inspiration, she said:
“The garden is inspired by the title of the classic Led Zeppelin song Stairway to Heaven and the Giant’s Causeway rock formation.
“The hard landscaping features four gently inclined pathways that take the traveller on towards their next destination, with seats along the way to pause and reflect. The planting scheme includes dark flowers and foliage in the corners of the garden and becomes brighter and lighter as the traveller continues on their journey. References to accepted religious symbolism and beliefs are not featured in order for the garden to be inclusive.
“All beings on Earth have two things in common – the biological fact of our birth and death. With political, religious, racial and territorial conflict occurring across the world, perhaps by acknowledging these shared experiences we can become less concerned with our differences.”
There are three show garden categories this year at RHS Malvern. These include the professional Show Gardens plus The Festival Gardens and The School Gardens.
The Festival Gardens is a new category for 2014. RHS Malvern, in conjunction with The Cotswold Gardening School, offered up-and-coming amateur garden designers the chance to build their first show garden. Similar to The Fresh Gardens category at RHS Chelsea, this competition seeks to bring cutting edge design and innovation to the show. Four designs have been selected and the winning designers all received a £3,000 bursary and expert tuition from horticultural and design professionals.
The School Gardens Challenge, supported by BAM Construct UK and BBC Blue Peter Gardener Chris Collins, has seen a record number of applications with 21 educational establishments taking part. The entrants range from play groups to home schooled groups to 6th form colleges and in age from pre-schoolers to school leavers.
RHS Malvern is the first major gardening show of the season and over the past few years has become renowned for showcasing the hottest new trends in garden design and planting. Many big names in the garden design world took their first steps at RHS Malvern, including Chris Beardshaw, Paul Hervey-Brookes and Diarmuid Gavin to name but a few.
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