The Copella Plant and Protect Garden at The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
For a third year, we are working with award-winning garden designer Sadie May Stowell to bring you this year's Copella garden at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show!
This year, Sadie is highlighting the loss of England's apples through a show garden which is inspired by the natural cycle of regeneration within an orchard.
The centrepiece of the garden will be a grassed mound that takes inspiration from the shape of a fallen apple returning to the earth. In the centre of the 'apple', is a natural sculpture designed to symbolise regeneration. A network of narrow rills, inspired by the veins in an apple leaf, illustrate the importance of water as an underlying life source.
English apple trees, including our beloved Cox's Orange Pippin, will be grouped in the garden to highlight the importance of replanting and preserving English apple orchards.
The plant selections in the garden have been carefully chosen for their ability to attract pollinating insects which proves vital in enhancing biodiversity...view our plant selection below to create your own Plant & Protect garden at home!
Our Naturalistic Plant Scheme
- Scrubs & Trees: Acer campestre, Corylus avellana, Malus domestic; 'James Grieve', Malus domestica 'Bramley', Malus domestica; 'Cox's Orange Pippin' (the above varieties of malus are subject to change)
- Hedge: Species rich native mix
- Perennials: Achillea 'Summer Pastiles', Anthemis 'Sauce Hollondaise', Briza media, Chaemerion angustifolium; 'Album', Deschampsia caepitose; 'Goldtau', Ceranium pratense 'Jolly Bee', Malva moschata; Penstemon 'Husker Red,' Scabiosa 'Butterfly Blue', Scabiosa caucasica 'Perfecta', Trifolium rubens, Trifolium ochroeucon; Angelica gigas
- Annuals: Agrostemma githago 'Ocean Pearl', Amerboa muricata, Ammi majus, Hordeum jubatum, Papaver 'Bridal White', Scabiosa 'Oxford blue', Silene dioica 'Confetti', Silene dioica
Photos (in order of appearance) by: Csame, Qwertzy2, Bernd Haynold, Nova.
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Meet our P&P Garden Designer - Sadie May Stowell
View Sadie's BiographyI am thrilled to be working with Copella once again at the prestigious Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Following on from our silver winning 2010 Copella Bee Garden, we can't wait to share this year's garden with you!
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Sadie May Stowell
HNC BA(Hons)PGDipLA
Sadie May Stowell is a Landscape Designer with a flair for imaginative and creative design work and a passion for spectacular plant combinations. Her projects demonstrate both strength and energy and are at the same time sympathetic and sensitive to the surrounding environment.
Initially trained in Fine Art, she started to explore colour, texture, and shape through the use of paint and textiles. The natural forms and plant material on which she based her work stimulated her to move on to explore the three-dimensional aesthetics of landscape design.
Her study of Garden Design at Pershore College of Horticulture has provided her with a breadth of horticultural knowledge which, coupled with her prior grounding in Fine Art and textiles, has led her design work to develop in an original and imaginative manner. She uses plants as the palette with which to create her eye-catching planting schemes.
Sadie then carried on to study Landscape Architecture at a higher level at the University of Gloucestershire, graduating with an Honours Degree and, subsequently, a Post Graduate Diploma.
The combination of a Fine Art background together with training in both horticulture and landscape architecture brings to her designs and planting schemes a very special use of colour, form and texture.
In 2005, Sadie was overall joint winner of the national Channel 4 garden design competition ‘The Great Garden Challenge‘, and, in summer 2006, she received Three Counties gold medal acclaim at the Malvern Spring Flower Show with a Mediterranean-inspired promotional show garden called ‘The Bowl Of Olives.‘
In 2006-2007 Sadie won an award and financial backing for a piece of research called ‘SubRural’. The research was a collaborative piece of work between herself and professional artist Emma Smith. ‘SubRural’ was funded by Gunpowder Park through the Bright Sparks Award Scheme.
Sadie has designed and built several medal-winning show gardens at Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, most recently ‘The Copella Bee Garden’ in 2010 for which received a Silver/Gilt award.
2011 now sees Sadie back in the public eye with another show garden at Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. The garden aims to tell the story of regeneration in an apple orchard.
Find out more at www.sadiemay.co.uk
