Bradstone and Sarah Eberle have been awarded a Gold Medal and Best in Show by judges at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
In what many have described as the best show since the mid 90s, the judges of the 2007 show were singularly impressed with 600 Days with Bradstone, a Mars concept garden.
The garden belongs to an astronaut on a 600-day tour of duty to Mars and explores the psychological importance of man's relationship with the environment.
Sarah was inspired to create a space garden in the run-up to the Millennium to explore a new era in scientific and design idioms. It took eight years of research to put together, with input from the European Space Agency and the British Science Museum.
Sarah Eberle, the garden designer, selected plants for their contribution to biomass and the carbon oxygen cycle; medicine and food and their psychological support!
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Sarah Eberle is a master story teller, with landscapes as her setting, and the plants and materials as her characters, developing a life of their own as her creation evolves.
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Alongside landscapes, horses are the love of Sarah's life. Hear how a St George's Day arrival led to seven sleepless nights which jeopardised her Chelsea preparations and left her on the edge of exhaustion.
Sarah's Horses
Outer space has touched down at the Chelsea Flower Show for the first time ever this year in the form of terrestrial Mars garden ‘600 Days With Bradstone’. Inspired by a new era in scientific thinking, Sarah Eberle’s design can only be described as being out of this world!
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Sarah Eberle had a dream - for Aggregate Industries materials developer Peter Britton, it could have been a nightmare.
Instead, he and his team have relished the challenge of creating credible Mars rock on Earth.
Here, he describes the journey.
Watch the journey of rock blasted from Glensanda quarry on the Argyll coast of Scotland all the way to finished product installed in a show garden at Chelsea.
Watch a seven-minute film on the metamorposis of a bare brown field strip of land at the Chelsea Hospital into the 600 Days with Bradstone Martian garden which won Best in Show.