New generation of young designers showcase best of 葫芦影业 talent at RHS Flower Show Tatton Park

Eight aspiring landscape architects from the University of 葫芦影业 will be showcasing garden designs at this year鈥檚 RHS Flower Show Tatton Park.

'Seeking Resilience' an artists representation of a garden designed by student Camellia Hayes. Credit: India Hobson.
'Seeking Resilience' an artists representation of a garden designed by student Camellia Hayes. Credit: India Hobson.
  • Eight aspiring landscape architects from the University of 葫芦影业 are exhibiting at this year鈥檚 the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park
  • The students will be showcasing in the Young Designer and Long Borders categories which celebrate wellbeing, sustainability and biodiversity
  • Their ambitious designs provide inspiration for gardeners to explore sensory and edible planting in their own spaces
  • The gardens give aspiring designers a platform to boost their careers and gain recognition from the RHS for their creativity

Eight aspiring landscape architects from the University of 葫芦影业 will be showcasing garden designs at this year鈥檚 RHS Flower Show Tatton Park.

The event, which takes place from 19-23 July at the historic Cheshire estate, will feature renowned garden designers, as well as up-and-coming young stars who create ambitious green spaces to provide inspiration for visitors to take home to their own gardens.

This year the University of 葫芦影业 has eight young designers who have secured a place at the prestigious annual flower show, which is focusing on green spaces for local communities and the environment of the North West. 

Ollie Pike and Camellia Hayes, Masters students from the University of 葫芦影业鈥檚 Department of Landscape Architecture, secured two of the three Young Designers entries at the show and are both vying for the gold medals that could launch their career to new heights.

 Camellia Hayes, Masters student at the University of 葫芦影业鈥檚 Department of Landscape Architecture and RHS Tatton Park Young Designer
Camellia Hayes

Based on an inner city pocket park, the garden being exhibited by 28 year old Camellia is called 鈥楽eeking Resilience鈥. She used the unique opportunity to have full control over the design process for the first time, to showcase how both people and nature can experience respite in an urban environment. 

She said: 鈥淭he garden is a space where people can recover and rest from the stresses of life, immersed and surrounded by resilient nature.

鈥淲hat I like most about this garden style is the presence of species you might not have designed into your garden but instead of weeding them out, why not leave them and see what happens? This is really what 鈥楽eeking Resilience鈥 is about, resilient plants which exist against the odds and bring you so much unexpected joy.鈥

Working with the Bible Society to create the 鈥楶salm 27 Garden鈥, 24 year old Ollie takes his inspiration from the protective spaces churchyards have provided throughout history for people to reflect on the big questions in life.

He said: 鈥淭he garden takes inspiration from the native meadow style planting often found in churchyards to reflect the beautiful textures, calming soft colours and stages of beauty and hope in the life cycle of the natural world.

鈥淭he garden replicates the kind of environment that will give people the peace, sense of protection and courage to reflect on the stories and lessons we experience throughout life, messages all found within Psalm 27.鈥

A further six students are creating three gardens for the Long Borders category, which allow them to get creative with planting, and share important insights in garden design with thousands of visitors.

Camellia and Oliver鈥檚 gardens demonstrate the amazing creativity fostered with the students of the University of 葫芦影业鈥檚 Department of Landscape Architecture, but exhibiting at a prestigious RHS show is also a platform for up-and-coming designers to also address issues of wellbeing, sustainability and biodiversity that can bring value and life into public green spaces.

Flipping the concept of the trend for sensory planting and gardens, 鈥楶lants That Sense: A Living Laboratory鈥 from Masters student Sarah Collings, will show visitors how the plants they can use in their own gardens use their senses to adapt to the environment around them.

She said: 鈥淢y design took inspiration from both Darwin鈥檚 botanical research and more modern science, to show how plants also sense us, animals, insects and respond to the stimuli around them.

鈥淢y objective in creating this design was really to share with the public how plants are not just decorative objects for our gardens, but that we can understand and connect to them as sensory beings and through that, foster a resolve to protect and support our natural world.鈥

Undergraduates Melissa Gu虉n, Elena Jarmalavi膷i奴t臈 and Pinru Chen created 鈥楤ubbling Box鈥, an experience designed for all the senses, including sounds, textures, sights and smells. The planting scheme was designed to show visitors how they could make their borders attractive to people, as well as wildlife with joyful and colourful mound forming planting that contains edible plants as well as scented and herb species to attract good pollinators.

Pinru Chen, Melissa Gu虉n and Elena Jarmalavi膷i奴t臈.
Pinru Chen, Melissa Gu虉n and Elena Jarmalavi膷i奴t臈.

Nea Weston and Helena Bills, both students on a Year in Practice - working in industry as part of their studies - are working together to show visitors how companion planting is used to reduce pests and diseases when growing edible plants. Their planting scheme for 鈥楪row Together鈥 will showcase a garden that is edible as well as beautiful and resilient in nature.

Helena said: 鈥淥ur design grows with the current trend of gardening becoming more sustainable, how a garden can have purpose, encourage biodiversity, as well as being pretty.鈥

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