RHS Tatton Show Gold Medal Winning Garden 2006

‘Inside Out’ embraces the concept of using garden space as an additional room. It encompasses contemporary design solutions whilst remaining practical, stylish and taking into account wildlife needs and recycling issues.

The garden revolves around a stunning elliptical table/water feature and seating. Freshly baked bread or pizza can be served from the hand built earth oven accompanied with various salad items and herbs from the borders.

The black ‘granite style’ material used throughout the garden is made from environmentally friendly re-cycled coffee cups by Smile Plastics. This provides a stunning backdrop to the planting chosen to provide food and shelter for wildlife as well as being interesting visually, with colours ranging from oranges through to maroons and deep purples.

A cleverly designed space saving composter supplied by http://www.urbancomposting.com/ is concealed within the beds along with both a wheelie bin and recycling bin. Four storage capsules are cleverly concealed under the flower beds too enabling storage of gardening tools and bird food etc. There is also a space saving water butt fitted to the wall enabling ample water to water the beds with rain water as and when necessary. This means the garden is not only stylish and comfortable but also highly functional.