The People's Choice and Gold medal winning garden, The Chris Beardshaw Wormcast Garden, is designed by Chris Beardshaw, who recreated in all its original glory a quintessentially English garden design inspired by two of the most eminent figures of Victorian/Edwardian garden design - Gertrude Jekyll and Thomas Mawson.
Garden Description
Chris's design inspiration comes from a unique
project to which he is committed and that is to restore 15 acres of
garden at Boveridge House in Dorset to their original former glory.
The garden is unique, because, perhaps without knowing it, Jekyll
and Mawson, who had never
been the best of friends, had
unwittingly collaborated on a garden to create a completely unique
and beautiful 1920's formal garden. Thomas Mawson had laid out the
gardens while Gertrude Jekyll had been consulted as to the planting
schemes, probably by post.
Plant list: (click on any of the green links below to read more about the plant and to add to your own 'Plants I want' list)
Trees
Fagus sylvatica Atropurpurea Group
Taxus baccata
Ferns
Asplenium
scolopendrium
Asplenium trichomanes
Athyrium filix-femina
Dryopteris filix-mas
Matteuccia
struthiopteris
Polypodium vulgare
Bulbs
Lilium martagon
var. album
Narcissus cyclamineus
Tulipa 'Spring Green'
Perennials
Alchemilla mollis
Anchusa
azurea
Bergenia ciliata
Centranthus ruber 'Albus'
Digitalis
purpurea f.albiflora
Geranium
himalayense
Iris sibirica
Polygonatum
multiflorum
Thymus vulgaris
Aquatic
Nymphaea 'Marliacea Carnea'
Roses
Rosa 'Felicite Perpetue'
Rosa 'Madame Alfred
Carriere'
Rosa 'Paul's Himalayan
Musk'