Celtic Style Garden
Between 8th–11th May 2008, we showcased our Celtic Style Garden at the RHS Malvern Spring Gardening Show. A prestigious event, the show attracts over one hundred thousand visitors and a great deal of interest from all areas of the media.
We won the opportunity to exhibit our work as one of the select ‘Show Gardens’ after submitting designs for a Celtic themed garden to the RHS competition. Television’s ‘Flying Gardener’, Chris Beardshaw showed a particular interest in the Celtic Style Garden and provided specific mentoring for the project.
About the garden
The garden, which was built and exhibited at the show, incorporates the framework of a Celtic round house, three connecting circles with indigenous plants, hedges and fruit trees. The Celtic Style Garden evokes the spirit of the Celtic lifestyle and the relationship that the Celts had with their natural surroundings.
The overall effect invites the viewer to feel that they have stumbled across this unassuming place on their travels and are being welcomed to rest, reflect and make music, resuming their journey nourished and refreshed.
The three circles feature:
1. An open framed Celtic style roundhouse with stone walling.
2. A circular area shaded by a thorn tree with a grass seat, creating a natural meeting placing.
3. A pool fed by a brook with a spring which arises from rocks by the hazel coppice.
Other features of the garden to note:
4. The Celtic cross by the pathway and open home are indicative of the out going nature of the Celtic Christian community, showing their sense of journey and adventure
5. The cultivated areas for growing herbs and other plants; representative of food production, the creative process of dying and weaving wool and those grown for medicinal use.
6. The framing of the garden with indigenous hedging, a hand cut chestnut rail fence and productive trees and shrubs.
"My aim is to help the viewer appreciate how close the Celtic people lived to and depended on their natural surroundings."
Paul Graham, Celtic Style Garden designer.
We won the opportunity to exhibit our work as one of the select ‘Show Gardens’ after submitting designs for a Celtic themed garden to the RHS competition. Television’s ‘Flying Gardener’, Chris Beardshaw showed a particular interest in the Celtic Style Garden and provided specific mentoring for the project.
About the garden
The garden, which was built and exhibited at the show, incorporates the framework of a Celtic round house, three connecting circles with indigenous plants, hedges and fruit trees. The Celtic Style Garden evokes the spirit of the Celtic lifestyle and the relationship that the Celts had with their natural surroundings.
The overall effect invites the viewer to feel that they have stumbled across this unassuming place on their travels and are being welcomed to rest, reflect and make music, resuming their journey nourished and refreshed.
The three circles feature:
1. An open framed Celtic style roundhouse with stone walling.
2. A circular area shaded by a thorn tree with a grass seat, creating a natural meeting placing.
3. A pool fed by a brook with a spring which arises from rocks by the hazel coppice.
Other features of the garden to note:
4. The Celtic cross by the pathway and open home are indicative of the out going nature of the Celtic Christian community, showing their sense of journey and adventure
5. The cultivated areas for growing herbs and other plants; representative of food production, the creative process of dying and weaving wool and those grown for medicinal use.
6. The framing of the garden with indigenous hedging, a hand cut chestnut rail fence and productive trees and shrubs.
"My aim is to help the viewer appreciate how close the Celtic people lived to and depended on their natural surroundings."
Paul Graham, Celtic Style Garden designer.