"A World Outside the
Classroom" Show Garden 2009
Click
here to
see our dedicated shows page for "A world outside the classroom"
The
show for 2009 has now been and gone and we had a great time! We
had lots of interest from school, teachers and children and I am
sure things like the incredible edible fence from around the
outside will re-appear somewhere else at another time.
The
fruit and vegetables from
Victoriana Nursery Gardens were
out of this world and really set the standard for the whole
show, they were much better than even the Gardeners' World film
set!
Read
more on our dedicated 2009
shows page or click
here to view the plant list.
"The Labyrinth 2006"
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The largest show garden in the world!
THE DESIGN -
THE BUILD -
THE FILMING -
THE SHOW
(Links to picture
montages)
In 2006 we took four
local landscape companies, one civil engineering company to the
N.E.C in Birmingham and in just two weeks turned a grassy bank into
the largest show garden the country has ever seen!
The show was BBC
Gardener's World Live and its dubbed as the greatest show on earth,
and not only did we go big, but we opened the show garden to the
public and attracted 35,000 people in just five days.
Over 7500 mixed plants, shrubs, grasses,
trees with 120 tonnes of top soil, 300mē
of turf, 6tonnes of cast iron, 16tonnes
of resin bound servicing, sleepless
nights and a massive amount of very hard
work from all the local landscape
companies who teamed together to
construct something of a miracle in the
short time frame we were
given to work within.
Diarmuid Gavin dropped in
to see us and said he thought we were either insane or genius for
building something so big, and he was bordering on the side of
genius. He also said he wouldn't ever attempt anything so big! Above
Diarmuid is seen talking to John Cavill and BBC look North.
Even Cherie Blaire came
to ask the difference between a Labyrinth and a maze as her son
"Leo" was interested to know. |
