In case you like to stroll within the woods and like wild locations, there may be a lot to please you at this yr’s present. Multi-stemmed timber casting dappled shade, dry habitats with vegetation rising from between tough rocks, trickling watercourses, pines (unseen for a few years in the primary present gardens) and a nook of Provence seemingly picked up and transported undisturbed to SW1 – it’s all there. And naturally a lot, far more. Some bonkers, some difficult, however as tv does such an awesome job of taking you across the present and uncovering the tales behind the gardens, I’ll simply do a fast journey round my high picks of the present gardens that I’m positive are destined for Gold:
Jekka McVicar’s Fashionable Apothecary Backyard – an atmospheric and gorgeously planted meditative and therapeutic herb backyard that’s destined to be rebuilt at a hospice
Nick Bailey’s magnificent Fantastic thing about Arithmetic – a tribute to pure symmetries throughout the kingdom of vegetation
Andy Sturgeon’s dramatic Telegraph Backyard the place the bronze fins symbolize mountains inside arid setting
James Basson’s L’Occitane Backyard by which he has recreated yet one more nook of Provence so practical that I nearly anticipated to listen to the cicadas
Cleve West’s M&G Backyard that remembers the Exmoor of his youth with stunted oaks, craggy rocks and a delicate palette of ferns and flowers
