This year is the first time the show has been held in September after the traditional May event was cancelled in 2020 and delayed this because of the pandemic.
Peter was part of the team that was awarded Best In Show for their work of a garden in the Chinese city of Guangzhou designed to celebrate the city’s journey from the most polluted in China to one of the cleanest since 2005.
Features in the winning Guangzhou Garden include a woodland dell for fresher air, an “active air wall” for purifying the atmosphere and a calming pool. Other features included shelters made from fast-growing recyclable Moso bamboo for people to gather in, with trees and shrubs including dawn redwood, Scots pine, field maple and birch.
Ed Wall, Academic Portfolio Lead for Landscape Architecture and Urbanism, said,
“It is fantastic to see Landscape Architecture graduates from Greenwich recognised with such awards, demonstrating the range of excellence in landscape teaching – that ranges from strategic landscape plans as exquisitely detailed gardens - over the last 50-years.”
Sarah Eberle, a Chelsea Flower Show regular, led the project that claimed a Gold Medal in the Best Sanctuary Garden category. The garden, titled The Psalm 23 Garden, is inspired by the landscape of Dartmoor, where Sarah grew up, and takes the form of a place of sanctuary, a haven.
Morris Winby, a BA year 2 student in Landscape Architecture was also involved with the show through work with Mak Gilchrist and the Edible Bus Stop and their 'Pharmacy of House Plants' exhibition.
Morris says,
“Along with my brother and some help from Fatfox Mushrooms, we created a musical score based around the ambience of bio-sonification to go alongside the exhibition and to be used for a short film currently being made. We recorded hundreds of field recordings during a cycle tour I did around the UK for two months over summer, to then be able to accurately emphasise the overarching idea of biophilia in the project.
“It felt like after my portfolio last year where parts resolved around the question of 'Sound and Architecture', that this was a real-life experience that came to fruition! Hopefully some more things will come of it too.”
