Bradstone have taken a romantic approach to this year’s Chelsea Flower Show with a “Lovers’ Retreat” garden that features new products from the 2003 range and a number of new plant varieties never seen before in the UK.

 

The garden features Bradstone’s Gironde paving, which has a pale limestone effect, ideal for creating a light, airy space. Balustrading from the Bradstone Structural range lines the sweeping stairs whilst the walling creates a private feel. Waterfalls add to the ambience, flowing into two pools.

 

Bradstone wanted a design which would inspire people to try the ideas for themselves, and reproduce them in their own gardens. Lovers’ Retreat provides an exciting showcase for the products and effectively uses products to provide both a romantic and inspirational setting.

 

Designer David Domoney commented “Many of the most memorable scenes from our greatest love stories are inspired by a romantic garden meeting. I’ve aimed to encapsulate the true essence of a classical romantic setting with a cascading garden, which demonstrates how to evoke a certain mood with a flowing movement of plants, stone and water. I would like people to mentally walk into the garden and experience a special moment in time.

 

The passionate planting combines hardy and bedding plants to create a striking enclosure of colour, texture and shape through foliage and flower. The stonework consists of sweeping twinned staircases connecting all three paved levels of the garden. To introduce flowing animation and natural sound in the midst of tranquility, I added water as the moving heart of the garden with two spectacular waterfalls.

 

I hope the design of this garden demonstrates the power of the right ambience on affairs of the heart”.

Gironde paving, Gironde

Balustrading and Squared Coarsed Rubble walling in Buff, both from Bradstone Structural