The Telegraph Garden by Andy Sturgeon - Best in Show 2016

Andy is one of the UK's leading landscape and garden designers, having won Best in Show and six RHS Gold medals at Chelsea Flower Show.

The Telegraph Garden is a 'captured landscape’ – a gently gardened place within a larger, wilder setting where dramatic bronze fins represent an ancient mountain range with a stream of melt water running in the rock-strewn gorge below. Inspired by the magnitude of geological events which have shaped our landscape over millions of years, the garden plays on the perspective of time and scale and reminds us of our own relatively fleeting moment on earth.

Plants are selected from similar natural habitats (warm, semi-arid regions in about 32 different countries) to create a unique planting scheme that is future-proofed against climate change. Foliage colours are predominantly dusty greens and grey-green; flower forms include tall spikes, umbels and daisies in white, orange, yellow, rust and purple. Many are unusual plants that have not been seen before at Chelsea.

Andy Sturgeon said: “I’m really excited to be working with the Telegraph again as it's an amazing opportunity to do something truly unique at Chelsea. This year's design is inspired by our natural environment and I’ve got really bold sculptural pieces rubbing shoulders with an unusual planting palette. I can’t wait to see it come to life''.

Andy’s modern landscapes are noted for their striking architectural and sculptural forms married to a rich palette of innovative planting. His influences are wide and varied from Richard Serra to David Chipperfield.

Plant List:

Thymus vulgaris	Poa labillardierei	Carex testacea
Scabiosa columbaria	Santolina pinnata 'Edward Bowles'	Festuca gautieri
Euphorbia seguieriana subsp. niciciana	Achillea tomentosa	Euphorbia ceratocarpa
Tragopogon porrifolius	Ozothamnus ledifolius	Echium russicum
Ridolfia segetum	Scleranthus uniflorus	Centaurea bella
Achillea umbellata	Cistus salviifolius 'Prostratus'	Dianella revoluta 'Little Rev'
Tulbaghia violacea 'Alba'	Verbena rigida f. lilacina	Satureja thymbra 'Alba'
Ozothamnus rosmarinifolius 'Silver Jubilee'	Bulbine frutescens 'Hallmark'	Rhodanthemum catananche 'Tizi-n-Test'
Dorycnium pentaphyllum subsp. pentaphyllum	Lotus hirsutus 'Lois'	Euphorbia dendroides
Ozothamnus diosmifolius	Sarcopoterium spinosum	Euphorbia spinosa

 

Trees:

Arbutus unedo	Quercus ilex	Schinus molle
Maytenus boaria

NEW: Add this plant list to your own 'plants I want' list:

If you wish to keep this plant list for future reference, copy the list below and use our multi-plant add (see a video explaining how to use this new feature) to upload all the plants in one-click to your own wish list: