AWARDS & SHOW GARDENS

 

  New Home Gardens Awards 2011 
Bowles & Wyer Congratulations to John Wyer (FSGD) of Bowles & Wyer who swept the board at the New Homes Garden Awards taking six Awards including the prestigious ‘Garden Designer of the Year’ and the ‘Landscape Architect of the Year’. In addition, Society Member Jo Thompson received a Silver Gilt Award for the ‘Best Rural Garden’ at the same ceremony, click here for further info and images 
   
  Garden Media Guild Awards 2011
Image Several member of the Society were recognized at the annual Garden Media Guild (GMG) Awards including Dan Pearson (MSGD) who won the ‘Inspirational Book of the Year’ Award for Home Ground: sanctuary in the city and John Brookes (FSGD) who took one of two ‘Lifetime Achievement’ Awards as voted by member of the Guild. Click here for awards in full
   
  BALI Awards 2011
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Once again, the annual BALI Awards included two categories to recognise the talents of landscape and garden designers.
 
Congratulations to Jacquetta Menzies (MSGD) who was made Principal Winner of Landscape Design Excellence Award for a garden project under £50,000 and Janine Pattison (MSGD) who was the Principal Award Winner for Landscape Design Excellence Award over £50,000. Other winning Members of the Society who made it through the first round of judging were Patricia Fox (MSGD) of Aralia Garden Design & Build, Jane Peterson (MSGD) of Jane Peterson Garden & Landscape Design and John Wyer (FSGD) of Bowles & Wyer Ltd. Click here for more information & images 
   
  Southport Flower Show August 18th – 21st 2011 
Image Paul Richards MSGD wins Large Gold, Best Show Garden & Best Overall Exhibit click here for full article
   
  RHS Gold Veitch Memorial Medal 2011
      Image Rosemary Alexander FSGD has been awarded the coveted RHS Gold Veitch Memorial Medal.

The citation was ‘Rosemary Alexander, Principal and founder of the English Gardening School, for teaching the art and craft of garden design’

Rosemary was presented the award by Princess Alexandra.

L-R Elizabeth Banks - Rosemary Alexander - Princess Alexandra
   
  RHS Tatton Park 2011
Image Award: Silver
Category: Show Garden
Title: Perspective by Chalon Kitchens
Built by: K and S Nursery, Andrew Collin, Mottershead Paving, Cheshire Oak Structures 
Designed by: Carolyn R Hardern
 
   
Image Award: Bronze
Category: Visionary Garden
Title: Points of Ayr
Built by: Elite Garden Design/ Glyndwr University
Designed by: Craig T Bailey Student Member
   
  RHS Hampton Court 2011  
Image Award: Gold and Best in Show
Category: Conceptual Garden
Title: Landscape Obscured
Built by: Graduate Landscapes & G&D Steel and Fabrication 
Designed by: Dan Lobb Pre Registered Member
   
Image Award: Gold
Category: Conceptual Garden
Title: Pituresque
Built by: J-W Henderson 
Designed by: Melissa Jolly Pre Registered Member
 
   
Image Award: Gold
Category: English Poet's Garden
Title: My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling
Built by: The Twig Group  
Designed by: Heather Appleton Pre Registered Member
   
Image Award: Silver Gilt
Category: Show Garden
Title: WWF’s 50th Anniversary Garden 
Built by: Verdant Design & Build   
Designed by: Fiona Stephenson MSGD
 
   
Image Award: Silver Gilt
Category: Small Garden
Title: Wild in the City 
Built by: Sparsholt College Hampshire    
Designed by: Charlotte Murrell Student Member
   
Image Award: Silver Gilt
Category: Show Garden
Title: The Copella Plant and Protect Garden 
Built by: Landscape Associates Ltd     
Designed by: Sadie Stowell Pre Registered Member
   
Image Award: Bronze
Category: Conceptual Garden
Title: My Life in the Cloud 
Built by: The Outdoor Room      
Designed by: Nigel Jones Pre Registered Member
 
   
Image Award: Bronze
Category: English Poet's Garden
Title: Mont Blanc by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
Built by: MPB Landscapes       
Designed by: Jayne Thomas Pre Registered Member
   
  BBC Gardeners World Live 2011
Image Award: Silver Gilt
Category: Show Garden
Title: ‘Flora pro.activ Heart Healthy Garden’
Designed by: Paul Baines MSGD
click here for further information
   
Image Award: Gold & Best in Show
Category: Show Garden
Title: ‘Naturally Playful’
Designed by: Darren Rudge & Helen Wood - Pre Registered Members
click here for further information
   
Image Award: Gold
Category: Birmingham Borders
Title: ‘Sensory Retreat’
Designed by: Kim Grove - SGD Student Member
click here for further information
   
Image Award: Silver
Category: Birmingham Borders
Title: ‘It takes two'
Designed by: Jacqueline Kelly - SGD Student Member
click here for further information
   
  Holker Hall Festival 2011
Image Award: Gold and Best in Show
Category: Show Garden
Title: Reflect
Built by: Greenbelt Landscapes
Designed by: Paul Richards MSGD
 - click here for full article
   
 

RHS Chelsea 2011      Press Release    

SGD Stand Sponsors &  Plant list

 Image Award: Gold and Best in Show
Category Show Garden
Title The Daily Telegraph Garden
Sponsored by The Daily Telegraph
Designed by Cleve West MSGD
   
Image Award: Gold
Category Show Garden
Title A Monaco Garden
Sponsored by Principality of Monaco
Designed by Sarah Eberle MSGD
   
Image Award: Gold
Category Urban Garden
Title The Power of Nature
Sponsored by Worcester, Bosch Group
Designed by Olivia Kirk Pre Registered Member 
   
Image Award: Silver Gilt
Category Generation Garden 
Title A Fruitful Garden 
Sponsored by John Woods Nurseries, The Sun Newspaper
Designed by Chris Deakin MSGD & Jason Lock MSGD
   
Image Award: Silver Gilt
Category Show Garden
Title The Homebase Cornish Memories Garden
Sponsored by Homebase
Designed by Thomas Hoblyn MSGD
   
Image Award: Silver Gilt
Category Generation Garden
Title Miracle-Gro’wers Learning Journey - Flowers
Sponsored by The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
Designed by Geoffrey Whiten FSGD
   
Image Award: Silver Gilt
Category Urban Garden
Title The Magistrates’ Garden
Sponsored by The Magistrates’ Association
Designed by Kate Gould Pre Registered Member

 
Image Award: Silver
Category Urban Garden
Title The Chilstone Garden
Sponsored by Chilstone of Tunbridge Wells
Designed by Heather Appleton Pre Registered Member
   
Image Award: Silver
Category Show Garden
Title The Times in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Sponsored by The Times
Designed by Marcus Barnett Pre Registered Member
   
  RHS Malvern 2011
Image Award: Silver
Category: Show Garden Chris Beardshaw Mentoring Scholarship
Title:'In the Balance'
Designer: Caroline E. Butler winning pictures
Sponsor: Kinley Systems, Bronzino, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, AMT Business
   
Image Award: Silver
Category: Show Garden in the Flora Range
Title: Collision
Designer: Christopher Tessier winning pictures
Sponsor: Jardin de Tessier & ckt designs
   
  Harrogate Flower Show 2011
Image Award: GOLD
Category: Sustainable Garden
Title: The Call of Nature
Designer: Maxine Nelson Pre Registered Member
Sponsor: Harrogate Flower Show
click here for full article
   
Image Award: GOLD
Category:- Sustainable Show Garden
Title:- “A bee-utiful garden for the future”
Sponsors:- Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and Harrogate Flower Show
Designer: Sally Tierney MSGD @ Yorkshire Garden Designer
   
National New Homes Garden Award 2011
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Surrey based garden designer Selina Botham of Designs for all Seasons has won a Gold and Best Communal Garden award in the New Homes Garden Awards.  
   
  Ideal Home Show Young Gardener of the Year 2011
Image Capel Manor won the Gold and were presented with a Cup and a glass 'house' trophy... click here for full article 
   
 
Jacksons Show Gardens Scheme 2011
   
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Helen Elks-Smith MSGD has been announced as one of these years’ winners ......... click here for full article & on the image for winning plan

   
Image Mary Ann Le May Garden Designs has been announced as one of this years winners.... click here for full article 
   
  APL Awards 2011
   
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Award: BEST IN CATEGORY £60,000 to £100,000 
Category: £60,000 to £100,000  
Designer: Amanda Patton MSGD
Contractor: Original Landscapes

Click for full press release

   
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Award: BEST IN CATEGORY up to £60,000 
Category: Up to £60,000  
Designer: Alison Wear Pre Registered Member
Contractor: Silva’s Gardens

Click for full press release

   
  Wyevale Award 2010
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Wyevale East Nurseries announces Charlotte Murrell as the winner of the Student Garden Design & Build Award 2010.  Murrell’s design will now be submitted, in accordance with standard procedures, to The Royal Horticultural Society for a chance to design and build her entry as a show garden in The Small Garden category at the Royal Hampton Court Palace Flower Show in 2011. Click here for full article
   
  BALI Awards 2010 
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The award-winning landscape architects and construction company Bowles & Wyer has taken the prestigious ‘Grand Award’, along with awards in three other categories, at this year’s BALI Awards.   Click here for full article
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The Society of Garden Designers (SGD) was once again thrilled to sponsor the two ‘Landscape Design Excellence Awards’ at the national BALI Awards.
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This year, the awards went to Andrew Wenham (MSGD) for an ambitious project urban garden in London and Patricia Fox (MSGD) for an innovative approach to a challenging small garden.  Click here for full article 
  Congratulations to the following award winners who made it through to the first round of judging:  Christine Parsons (MSGD), John Nash (MSGD), Liz Saward (MSGD), Nigel Phillips (FSGD), Jilayne Rickards, Rebecca Crowley, Louisa Bell and Susan McLaughlin.
   
  Garden Media Guild Awards   
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Congratulations to photographer Jerry Harpur (Friend of the SGD) who took the ‘Book Photographer of the Year’ Award for his images in Ulf Nordfjell: Fourteen Gardens, at the annual Garden Media Guild Awards in December.
   
 

RHS Tatton 2010

Image Award: BRONZE
Category: Back to Back Garden
Title: From Darkness to Light
Designer: Carolyn Hardern, Correspondent Member  
Sponsor: Making Space 
  Design Plan 
   

 

RHS Hampton Court 2010

Image Award: GOLD & BEST SMALL GARDEN
Category: Small Garden
Title: Food for Thought
Designer: Mandy Buckland MSGD
Sponsor: Hadlow College  
   

SGD Chelsea Gallery

RHS Chelsea 2010 

Image Award: GOLD & BEST IN SHOW
Category: Show Garden
Title: Daily Telegraph Garden
Designer: Andy Sturgeon MSGD
Sponsor: Daily Telegraph
   
Image Award: GOLD & BEST URBAN GARDEN
Category: Urban Garden
Title: The Unexpected Gardener
Designer: Jo Thompson , Correspondent Member
Sponsor: Thrive
   
Image Award: GOLD
Category: Generation Gardens
Title: The Upwardly Mobile Garden
Designer: Chris Deakin MSGD & Jason Lock MSGD
Sponsor: John Woods Nurseries, Capel Manor College
   
Image Award: SILVER GILT
Category: Show garden
Title: Foreign & Colonial Investments' Garden
Designer: Thomas Hoblyn MSGD
Sponsor: Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust 
   
Image Award: SILVER GILT
Category: Urban Garden
Title: The Naturally Fashionable Garden
Designer: Nicholas Dexter MSGD
Sponsor: BrandAlley  
   
Image Award: SILVER GILT
Category: Urban Garden
Title: Hartman ‘A Joy Forever’
Designer: Kate Gould, Pre Registered Member
Sponsor: Hartman UK
   
Image Award: SILVER GILT
Category: Urban Garden
Title: The University of Worcester Garden
Designer: Olivia Kirk, KKE Architects Limited, Correspondent Member
Sponsor: The University of Worcester  
   
Image Award: SILVER
Category: Courtyard
Title: SAC Strutt and Parker Sustainable Highland Garden
Designer: Amber Goudy, Student Member
Sponsor: Strutt and Parker, SAC
   
Image Award: BRONZE
Category: Generation Gardens
Title: A City Roof Garden
Designer: Geoffrey Whiten FSGD
Sponsor: Digby Stone Ltd, Folia (Europe) Ltd, BG Building Contractors
   
Image Award: BRONZE
Category: Show Garden
Title: The Stephen Hawking Garden for the Motor Neurone Disease Association
Designer: Sue Hayward, Pre Registered Member
Sponsor: Brewin Dolphin
   
   SGD Chelsea Press Coverage

Living etc (May issue)
Garden Design Journal (May issue)

Evening Standard
Garden Forum
RHS Website
Garden Design Unlimited
Horticulture Week
The Enduring Gardener
Daily Telegraph
 

 

 
RHS Show Cardiff 2010 
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Award: SILVER-GILT
Category: Urban Garden
Designer: Caroline Jones, Pre Registered Member

 

 
RHS SHOWS   
  
2009
 
WINNERS
 The Society of Garden Designers Show Gardens Paul Henesey
Paul Hensey MSGD

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009
Category:  Urban Garden
Title:  The Fenchurch Garden
Designer:  Paul Hensey MSGD
Sponsor:  Fenchurch Advisory Partners
Medal/award:  Silver Gilt & most Creative Urban Garden

info@paulhensey.com www.paulhensey.com 
               

 

The Society of Garden Designers Show Gardens Paul Henesey

RHS Chelsea 2009

     
The Society of Garden Designers Show Gardens Pat Fox
Patricia Fox MSGD
Show:  Chelsea Flower show 2009
Category:  Courtyard Garden
Title:  ‘Freshly Prepped By Aralia’
Designer:  Patricia Fox / Aralia Garden Design
Award:  Silver Flora
Sponsors:  Pawley & Malyon, Heather Barnes Overseas Property Investments & Attwaters
Contractors: Terra Firma, Armstrong Jordan & Ec0-Lutions
www.araliagardendesign.blogspot.com
 The Society of Garden Designers Show Gardens Pat Fox
     
 
Jane Brockbank MSGD
Show: RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009
Category: Urban Gardens
Title: 'Nature Ascending'
Designers: Angus Thompson & Jane Brockbank MSGD
Medal: GOLD
 
     

The Society of Garden Designers Show Gardens Tracy Foster

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tracy Foster MSGD

Show:  RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
Title:  Henry VIII Wives Gardens (A category for 2009 to celbrate 500 years since Henry VIII became king) - Jane Seymour
Designer:  Tracy Foster.
Main Sponsor:  RHS Grant
Medal/award:  Silver Gilt Medal and Best of the Henry VIII Wives Category

 

 

 

The Society of Garden Designers Show Gardens Tracy Foster

Hampton Court BBC

Hampton Court

 

 

 

   
 
Philippa O’Brien MSGD
Show: RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Title: British Beekeepers Association – Bees Need gardeners
Designer: Philippa O’Brien
Medal/Award: Linley Silver gilt
www.pipobriengardendesign.com
 The Society of Garden Designers Show Gardens Philippa O'Brien
     
 The Society of Garden Designers Show Gardens Philippa O'Brien  
Philippa O’Brien MSGD

Show: RHS Hampton Court Flower Show
Category: 6 wives of Henry VIII
Title: Katherine Howard’s Garden
Designer: Philippa O’Brien
Sponsor: Jackson’s Fencing
Award/medal: Silver gilt medal

 

 
     
 
Paul Baines MSGD
Show: RHS Tatton Park Flower Show
Category: Display Bedding Scheme
Title: Frinton in Bloom
Designer: Paul Baines with nine other volunteers
Sponsor: Frinton in Bloom & Ball Colgrave Nurseries
Award/medal: Bronze
 The Society of Garden Designers Show Gardens Paul Baines
     
   
 The Society of Garden Designers Show Gardens Nicholas Dexter
Nicholas Dexter MSGD

Show: RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009
Category: Urban Garden
Designers: Nicholas Dexter
Sponsor: Witan Investment Trust
Award/medal: Silver

mygarden.rhs.org.uk/blogs

 The Society of Garden Designers Show Gardens Nicholas Dexter
     
     
FUTURE GARDENS BUTTERFLY WORLD ST ALBANS

 www.futuregardens.org.uk

12 winners were awarded £25,000 bursaries to build their designs, these are the SGD Registered Members selected from over 100 international entries in the design competition

  
       
          
 
Peter Thomas MSGD

Show:  Future Gardens
Title:  Metamorphosis
Designer:  Peter Thomas
www.ptadesign.com


The Society of Garden Designers Show Gardens Peter Thomas      

Future Gardens

Conceptual Gardens      

     
   
Paul Dracott

Show:  Future Gardens
Title:  'Exoskeleton'
Designer:  Paul Dracott

www.agaveonline.com

 The Society of Garden Designers Show Gardens Paul Draycott

Future Gardens

     
   
Michelle Wake MSGD

Show: Future Gardens
Title: The Release Garden
Designer: Michelle Wake at Greenwave Design & sculptor Chloe Leaper
www.greenwavedesign.co.uk
 The Society of Garden Designers Show Gardens Michelle Wake
     
     
Other Shows
   

 The Society of Garden Designers Show Gardens Anthony Paul

 

 
The Torsanlorenzo International Prize Rome Italy

An award open to all garden designers internationally

Anthony Paul MSGD

Designer: Anthony Paul Landscape Design
Medals/Award: First Prize for section C --best private garden for the Tony Stone Garden Vaulcluse France

www.anthonypaullandscapedesign.com

 The Society of Garden Designers Show Gardens Anthony Paul

Torsanlorenzo Internazional Prize

     
 
Scottish Design Awards 2009
Douglas Coltart MSGD

Project Title: New Lanark Roof Garden
Project Description: A roof garden on top of a 5 storey grade A listed mill building in the heart of the New Lanark World Heritage Site
Award: Commendation in Scottish Design Awards 2009
Designer: Douglas Coltart, Viridarium

www.viridarium.co.uk

 The Society of Garden Designers Show Gardens Douglas Coltart
     
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Stanstead Garden Show
Paul Bentley MSGD

Designer: Paul Bentley
Sponsor: Marshalls and Buildcentre

www.thelandscapegardeners.co.uk

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 The Society of Garden Designers Show Gardens Helen Elks-Smith
New Forest and Hampshire County Show 2009
Helen Elks-Smith MSGD
Title: The Artisans' Garden
Designer: Helen Elks-Smith
Award/medal: Large Gold and Best Garden Centre/Landscape in show
www.elks-smith.co.uk
 The Society of Garden Designers Show Gardens Helen Elks-Smith

 

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