Using poetry in the QVC Garden

Hi everyone, Adam here.

As you might have picked up from reading my earlier blogs, the theme of this year's QVC Chelsea garden is creating a space for two people to enjoy together. One of the ways I want to do this is using poems. 

The garden features stone walls along the the sides, and parts of these walls will be engraved with extracts from poems.

The idea is she sends a poem to him, and he responds with a poem to her. The poems are a secret until the garden is finished. I've chosen extracts from Wordsworth, Keats, Yeats and Tennyson, and as well as building on the themes of the garden, it's done to make me look slightly more intelligent than I actually am!

Have you ever thought of bringing poetry into your garden? Adding pieces of art that you like into your garden, whether sculpture, ornaments, poetry or mosaics, is a great way to make a garden your own.

Adam

Read more about the QVC Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009.