The QVC Garden
The QVC Garden
Designed by Adam Frost
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Adam takes us on a tour of the QVC Garden.
Design inspiration
The simple, geometric shapes of The QVC garden, together with the cool palette of colours in the planting bring a calmness and tranquillity to this garden, which is enhanced by the sound and sight of gently running water. It's designed for a couple who are rekindling their love of plants and gardening now that their children have left home.
As they stroll along the paths that run through the romantic, traditional planting, they can reflect on their memories and lives, reading inscriptions of poems by John Keats, William Butler Yeats, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson depicted on the stone walls.
"What I love more than anything about my work is the way it allows me to bring together my passion for plants with my love of design, to create special places for people to enjoy.
As the garden is inspired by poetry the themes are explained in one stanza from Tennyson's The Oak:
Live thy Life,
Young and old,
Like yon oak,
Bright in spring,
Living gold"
Your comments
Comments
I echo all the above comments. This is a garden I would love to sit in, sheltered in the day, but mostly of an evening, not merely to relax in but to be positively uplifted by the rich colours and scents of the flowers and to 'drink in' the sights and sounds of swifts screaming overhead until the bats come out at twilight.
This is Chelsea as it should be. A fabulous garden filled with useful ideas and a pleasure to see. What were the judges thinking of in not giving this beautiful garden a gold. It is a real garden which real people could actually use. I am getting very bored with these ultra cool, obviously exceedingly expensive, gardens all white and green with hardly a touch of colour which seem to scoop the awards.
This garden should definitely have won Gold.The beautiful colours and practical design are inspirational .
As many others have said, this garden deserved a gold and, for my money, the best in show. This is the kind of garden you would willingly transport to your own home - a gorgeous and soulful design but also real world design that you could live in, and with, for years. The planting is simply gorgeous, the landscaping and water features are sympathetic and beautiful and the whole thing has character, peace and style. Congratulations to Adam, a people's winner.
Typically, an achievable, accessible and beautiful garden does not get the recognition it deserves!
What I like about this garden is that its accessible and "real". You can "do that" in your garden. Congratulations.
Congratulations on a beautiful garden!
My favourite by far, I cant believe it didnt get the gold it so obviously deserved.
Once again it shows the judges really aren't on the same wavelength as the general public, I think its time they stopped promoting the green and over architectural styles of the past years and started championing real gardens that we all love and can aspire to like this one!!
Congratulations.
We thought that this garden really did deserve gold. The simple compact design that, unlike so many other past and present Chelsea shows, really could used in so many of our gardens at home. The combination of hard landscaping and planting is perfect and so so practical and even incorporates ample seating and double use fire pit. Also, how refreshing to see a few colours used at last and no doubt this is what the judges didn't like !! This preoccupation with green just isn't representative of reality. Alan Titchmarsh's own garden is a riot of colour and plant variation, as are most other exhibitors, why all these presenters keep on pushing what is in reality a really boring and uninspired theme is mindless but no one seems to have the guts to stand up and say so !! Shame on those judges but this isn't the first clanger dropped by them, remember Chris Beardshaw's garden last year !?!
Hi Adam
Congratulations
Sorry we can't get to see it for real this year but I loved the planting and the use of colour and have downloaded the plant list for use in Dorset.
Best wishes
Rosalind and Tony
About this garden
Silver Flora Medal Winner
See viewers' comments on this garden at the foot of the page.
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Hi Adam
Great garden should have had a gold medal, we will be studying the plant list. We loved the garden you designed for us in Norfolk 1998, however we have recently moved to Suffolk - pity we can't afford you now.
Good Luck for the future.
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