Chris Beardshaw creates his largest ever show garden
Award winning garden designer Chris Beardshaw is heading off to New Zealand to create the largest exhibition garden ever seen in the 15-year history of the Ellerslie International Flower Show in Christchurch.
Chris will be heading to New Zealand to create the garden for the show which runs from 10th to 14th March 2010. He has been invited by the organisers to create a quintessentially English Garden for the event which will extend 64 metres into the Hagley Park showground. Guaranteed to be a real show-stopper the garden will be designed using 10,000 plants including 4500 annuals and 3000 herbaceous plants.
The garden – An Englishman’s Retreat’ – will be filled with colour and fragrance making it a feast for all the senses.
Chris is renowned for his formal English garden designs, having won nine Gold and Silver Gilt Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) medals. Chris is delighted to be attending the Ellerslie Show for the first time. He said, “This show has a great reputation internationally. Our garden is not only the show’s largest ever exhibit but it is the largest show garden I have ever created too.”
Chris is looking forward to the opportunity of using locally sourced plant material and to experiment with different species for the New Zealand Garden. The 2010 show is shaping up to be one of the biggest in its history with an incredibly diverse range of gardens and we feel sure that An Englishman’s Retreat will be a star attraction.
By Sandy Felton
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