LIYHB Members Achievements 2010
Gillespies awarded Silver and winner of the Small Gardens People's Choice at Chelsea for their "Rhubarb Crumble & Custard Garden"
The Rhubarb Cumble and Custard Garden |
This garden celebrates Yorkshire, the team of inspirational local producers and makers, and every ingredient within the garden.
The garden is a quirky take on the classic dish of ‘rhubarb crumble and custard’ inspired by Yorkshire’s very own ‘Rhubarb Triangle’, a nine square mile triangle where rhubarb is grown on a massive scale. This garden is made even more celebratory as earlier this year Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb was awarded protected name status.
Simon Hall, Gary Verity (Chief Executive, Welcome to Yorkshire) and Kate Dundas receiving their People's Choice Award |
Alan Titchmarsh enjoying the garden |
The garden is relaxing, informal and charming. It uses traditional and natural materials and celebrates Yorkshire’s produce, craftsmanship and its famous landscape. It also demonstrates what can be achieved in a small courtyard garden creating a productive yet aesthetic space. This is a comfortable, ‘lived in’ garden to ‘grow your own’ and potter.
A mouth watering bowl of rhubarb sits centre stage, with a traditional dry stone wall crumble topping, all washed down with a good serving of custard flowing through the garden. The York Stone patio with custard ring features a handcrafted oak chair, resembling a spoon, which invites you to relax and experience a taste of Yorkshire.
Alan Burns and Phil Dugdale winners of Best Visionary Garden and Gold Medal at the 2009 RHS Tatton Park show with their design "Cubed3"
"Cubed3" at the 2009 RHS Tatton Park Show |
With the introduction of the Visionary Category at Tatton Park, we aimed to look at garden
design with a fresh approach. We employed a modular theme, which allows flexibility in the
space itself. To achieve this a network of gabions were built together to create an entirely
usable garden. These forms can be used as the foundation, the structure and the finish. They offer containment and with this the flexibility garden design needs today.
Photos courtesy of Jon Enoch |
Designers Alan Burns and Phil Dugdale |
Plan view of the garden 
Loose, green, shade tolerant planting was used to frame and soften the structural elements
of the garden. Entirely herbaceous, the planting dies back revealing the ordered space. In
spring the garden erupts, giving the sense of new life. Nestled amongst this planting sit larger feature gabions providing height and structure without entirely enclosing the space. This combination creates a unique space allowing diversity all year round.