Back in their usual spot at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show on Cross Way (CW312), the Horatio’s Garden and Country Living stand has been designed by Bunny Guinness to impart the essence of their vibrant sanctuary gardens.
Guinness, who also designed Horatio’s Garden Midlands in Oswestry, is creating a floral meadow, with vaulted, sculptural wire arches filled with climbers. Fragrant jasmine is grown inside the arching vaults, which have been inspired by vaulted church undercrofts and enclose the entire Horatio’s stand.
The backdrop to the design is provided by a wildflower inspired artwork, installed as fabric walls, by the textile artist Katy McIntyre-Brown.
for Horatio’s Garden by Katy Botanicals
Guiness is a chartered landscape architect, journalist, radio personality and a regular panellist on the long-running BBC Radio 4 programme, Gardener’s Question Time. She designed nine show gardens and won 6 RHS Chelsea Flower Show Gold medals. Her work has been featured in several TV shows and she regularly writes for the Sunday Telegraph and BBC Gardeners’ World magazine.
McIntyre-Brown is a botanical artist who designs patterns and prints for natural furnishing fabrics. For the past twenty years, she has been painting the natural world around her in oils, acrylics and water colours. Painting her botanical furnishing fabric designs from her studio in the rural Test Valley in the South West of England, her botanical projects are not captivating, but created using organic and ethically produced paints and textiles.
The stand will also feature the charity’s curated shop, featuring a collection of the Horatio’s Garden curated merchandise – the sale of which supports the wellbeing of people with spinal injuries, spending time in Horatio’s Gardens across the country.
