![]() Not a single rock has even been scratched. “You just can’t imagine the work that has gone into it, and yet Dan makes it look so easy. It is indeed a masterpiece from a designer at the top of his game. From the swooning reactions on Monday, there was little doubt that Dan Pearson’s magical wild garden was going to win the Best Show Garden award. I did manage to get an aerial view of the Laurent-Perrier Chatsworth Garden by clambering up the rocks, where at the summit there is the surprise of a circular well pool fringed in sweet woodruff. Triumphantly, he has pulled off the most difficult trick of all: to make the made look not made. Paxton took several years to make his rockery. ![]() Pearson was not afraid to keep planting in some areas quite sparse, as if the underlying soil were the restraint. The planting was complex, yet showed great sensitivity to the way things happen in the wild, particularly the way that a plant seeds itself out from its starting point. The design was arresting, but absolutely believable. The planting, as well as the landscaping, balanced triumphantly on the most difficult of tightropes. From a well disguised pool, water trickled over the face of a rock into the narrow stream that wound through the site, with absolutely convincing grassy banks either side. They rose majestically between the equally mature trees that looked as though they must always have been on the Chelsea triangle. Astonishingly, this overlay survived all the handling, craning, and shifting necessary to stack the rocks into the dramatic tors Pearson had envisaged. ![]() The rocks Pearson used were left over from Paxton’s vast creation, and were lying in the Derbyshire undergrowth, attracting soft layers of moss and liverworts, even wild flowers. Both gardens were made by designers who have trained themselves to properly look at landscapes – both natural and man-made – and to understand how they co-exist. As installations, they could not have been more different, but what they had in common was a sense of truth. There were two outstanding gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show this year: Dan Pearson’s monumental evocation of the rockery and trout stream at Chatsworth, which won Best in Show, and James Basson’s recreation of a perfumier’s garden in Grasse, which won a gold medal. It was Dan’s first appearance at Chelsea since 2004. The scheme took two main areas as its inspirations: the monumental rockery and the ornamental Trout Stream, a narrow rivulet of water running in soft loops through the top of the garden, both of which were designed by Joseph Paxton, the Victorian engineer-cum-landscape architect who shaped Chatsworth’s huge vistas. On the prominent Triangle position, which can be viewed from all three sides, we celebrated the wilder, more romantic and less well-trodden corners of Chatsworth’s 105-acre gardens. The challenge was to find something in the grounds, which are primarily about grand gestures, that could be conveyed on a show garden site and with relevance to the general public. We were invited by Laurent-Perrier and the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire to create a show garden that was a tribute to Chatsworth’s grounds and history. The 2015 show was the stage for more than 30 show gardens by designers including Adam Frost, Jo Thompson, James Basson and Marcus Barnett. My souls purpose is to burn the flame of love and light through visions of colour and magic, to explore the dimensions of spirit and soul, then to dissolve into a sea of energy.pure and bright.The Royal Horticultural Society’s annual show has been held at the Royal Hospital Chelsea since 1912. Creating talismans and tools to open the gates to let all the wild glory flow back in.Ī light emerges with brightness and clarity, opening the spirit and igniting the heart of consciousness, burning flame of power and vision. The wisdom of the Earth is mine to hold in my heart for eternity. The wild spirit weaver was born from a seed of all trees, from the deepest earth and the furthest stars, from fur, feather and human skin, from the wind and water, sun and Moon and she is here to bring magic and light, truth and hope. To give those wild places of knowing within a chance to be found and live free once again. Influenced by the land, devas and wildlife, to create stories through art, crafts and photography. English Artist living in a forest home called Dream Weaver Cottage, in the Rothaar Mountains of Germany.īeth has rescued over 100 animals and birds from 2007 to the present day, all of whom have lived in the acre woodland at Dream Weaver Cottage.
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