A GARDEN designer from Shiplake has been awarded for one of her latest creations.
Ana Mari Bull, of Mill Road, and design partner Lorenzo Soprani entered the Royal Horticultural Society Malvern Spring Show on May 10, where their design was named Best Festival Show Garden.
The pair have been working together for the last few years since graduating from the Oxford College of Garden Design where they completed a post-graduate course in residential landscape architecture.
Mrs Bull, who runs Ana Mari Bull Landscape and Garden Design, said: “The judges loved how we were able to tell our story in such a small space.
“They were particularly impressed with the choice of cloud pruned CarpinusBetulus trees, which attracted a lot of attention throughout the show, and also the way we had managed to make the planting seem so natural.
“The plant everyone was drawn to was a pink cow parsley called Chaerophyllum Hirsutum Roseum — they sold out of it in the floral marquee.”
Mr Soprani, who runs LSV Gardens in the Cotswolds, said their design offered a study of the relationship between man and the natural world.
He said: “The garden has a clean, geometric layout combined with neatly clipped planting to highlight the human need to organise and bring order to the natural world.
“In contrast, areas of naturalistic planting represent the uncontrolled growth that takes place when nature is left untamed. The design creates harmony and rhythm through the use of these two very different styles of planting.”
Mrs Bull is a Royal Horticultural Society-trained horticulturist whose work has been featured on Grand Designs.
She said: “We love what we do. It’s a real privilege to be able to work with a client to create an outdoor space which is personal to them, the house and its surroundings.
“Clients bring us in to help them make best use of all their outside space. Gardens are visible from every room of the house but often ignored or left to the end of a project when the entire budget has been spent.”
For more information, contact Mrs Bull at anamaribull@yahoo.com or 07876 060790 and Mr Soprani at lsv gardens@gmail.com or 07814 505762.
Published 27/05/14
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