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David Hurrion designs Headline Showcase Garden for BBC Gardeners’ World Autumn Fair

Gardening writer and presenter, David Hurrion, will be designing the headline Showcase Garden at this year’s BBC Gardeners’ World Autumn Fair, held in association with English Heritage at Audley End House in Essex

A celebration of the way that raised beds have revolutionised how we garden today, David Hurrion‘s design for the ‘Raised Bed Revealed’ will show how adaptable raised beds can be, capable to fit the design and style of any plot and suitable for ornamental plants as well as vegetables.

Designed by Hurrion exclusively for the BBC Gardeners’ World Autumn Fair, The Raised Bed Revealed Showcase Garden will feature raised beds at different heights for standard, wheelchair and standing height gardening. The showcase will incorporate productive veg and herb beds, an autumn colour border, a climate-proof patch, an exotic border, a plant-collector’s section and raised lawn.

The garden celebrates the launch of Hurrion’s latest book, The Raised Bed Book, published in March this year. The book highlights innovative design ideas, planting schemes and ways to create the perfect growing conditions for plants.

Hurrion says: “The Raised Bed Revealed will bring to life some of the ways in which gardeners can elevate their growing which my new book lifts the lid on! Whether it’s making bespoke raised structures to suit your growing needs, keeping the soil in tip top health, tailoring growing conditions to suit the plants you want to grow, or making room for wildlife, there will be plenty to inspire your own designs at home.”

Lucy Tremlett, Head of Horticultural Division at Immediate Live, organisers of the BBC Gardeners’ World Autumn Fair, said: “David is a great friend of the BBC Gardeners’ World family as a regular presenter on our event stages. With his extensive plant knowledge, horticultural experience and expertise, we’re thrilled that David will be sharing his wonderful The Raised Bed Revealed design. For those of us that think raised beds are only for veg patches and allotments, I’m pretty sure David is going to change our minds forever!”

The BBC Gardeners’ World Autumn Fair, held in association with English Heritage will take place at Audley End House and Gardens in Essex from the 30th of August – 1st of September.

Hurrion is currently raising funds for Macmillan by taking on a Marathon Mighty Hike along the Dorset Coast to raise vital funds for people living with cancer. Along with Darren Holt and Paul Larcombe, Hurrion hope to raise a minimum of £1000 to pay for a Macmillan Support Worker for eight days who could provide emotional, practical and financial advice to someone affected by cancer. Full details of their marathon and donations can be be found on JustGiving.