Sarah unveils QVC's Chelsea Flower Show garden for 2008

I'm Sarah Price - the garden designer who created QVC's Bejewelled Garden at last year's Chelsea Flower Show. Now I'm designing QVC's garden for this year's show and I can't wait!

Since last year's show, I've been busy designing all kinds of gardens! Some of them have been really modern and minimalist, while others more informal with fantastic expanses of soft naturalistic planting - something I love designing with!

I've been involved in lots of gardening projects recently, including working with Thrive in Battersea Park to renovate their 'Old English Garden'. Over the coming months I'll be telling you about how the QVC Garden is going, as well as giving you tips on improving your own gardens.

I want to make the QVC Garden a tranquil space, somewhere you feel you can really relax and unwind. To do this, I'm using calm reflective water and fresh, naturalistic planting.

 

By interweaving some gorgeous colours into the garden, like fresh lime greens and dusky pinks, I'm hoping to create a tranquil meadow effect.

I love natural materials like stone, aggregate and earthen cob walls, so I'm using them in my hard landscaping and they'll look great when offset against reflective glass and shimmering water.

Check back for my latest blog entries in the RHS Chelsea Flower Show QGossip category.

Comments

[Jean Moore]

Congratulations to Sarah. Loved last year's QVC garden, it was beautiful, but this year it is stunning. Having recently landscaped my own gardens, back and front, using stone, on terraced different levels over a third of an acre, with Richard'd plants/trees/feed etc I'm trying to live up to QVC standards, not bad for a pensioner! It's all about 'having a go',big bold statements softened by plants that Sarah uses and Richard suggests. Well done QVC.

[Pauline]

We manage to have a natural garden enough so we can keep it tidy. I love your photo, you have such lovely skin. Do you purchase you skin products from QVC?? I love to see the birds we have Russian Vine..Passion Flower...Then we have 2 more climbing foliages. They have a very density growth on them so there is plenty of plants they can hide in. We have a lot of plants, that I have bought from QVC. I live in a City so it is surprising the different birds we have here in the garden.