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.
sarah speaks
evolution of a design
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
The muse . . .
I was inspired to write these chronicles - or space log - after doing something last year that I will probably never do again! I designed and built three gardens for the Royal Horticultural Society Shows - at Chelsea, BBC Gardeners' World Live and Hampton Court Palace.
Apart from long months spent in preparation, the construction of the gardens meant eight weeks away from home, working 15-hour days, seven days a week.
With it came stress, physical hard work - and ultimately a short trip to the hospital to deal with the after-effects!
Despite this, I am a self-confessed addict, a slave to the process and the adrenalin rush of designing gardens for such prestige events.
I've been an adrenalin junkie all my life. My husband asked me why I do it and why I am putting myself through the pain once more. The simple truth is - I can't help myself. If I see a mountain, I simply have to climb it.
It goes back to my early days, when horse riding and white water rafting went hand in hand.
After all, you only live life once, so you may as well live it to the full.
So here I am writing about the fun and tears that I am about to go through. I hope that it gives an interesting and entertaining insight into the ‘behind the scenes’ of Chelsea without treading on too many toes!
Sarah Eberle qualified and became a member of the Landscape Institute in 1980. Over the last 26 years she has practised landscape architecture and garden design, running her own business in Devon.
During the 1990s, Sarah joined Hillier Landscapes as Design Director, where she is still a shareholder but also runs her own practice in Hampshire.
Sarah has an esteemed record in RHS shows, having won six Gold medals, Best in Show and the George Cook award for innovation twice at Hampton Court. Sarah has also exhibited at Tatton Park and BBC Gardeners’ World Live.
She project managed the Daily Telegraph garden at the Chelsea Flower Show for Michael Balston in 1999, which picked up a Gold medal and was later reconstructed at RHS Wisley.
Sarah has spent an intensive eight years researching this garden with the help of the European Space Agency and the British Science Museum.
Sarah’s garden is once again being sponsored by Bradstone, the leading manufacturer in garden hard landscaping products, also a regular at the Chelsea Flower Show, having sponsored gardens over the last 25 years.