Landscape & Urban Design Issue 25 2017 | Page 21

RHS Hampton text RHS Hampton London-based Tom Massey, another up-and-coming designer, is creating ‘The Perennial Sanctuary Garden’, championing the healing power of plants, which in current turbulent times is becoming increasingly important. More than 2,500 individual plants of different colours will make up the garden, exploring the effect colour can have on our mood. Show Gardens Show sponsor, Viking Cruises have joined forces with acclaimed designer Paul Hervey-Brooks with a garden inspired by the overseas destinations they travel to. Multi-RHS Gold medal winning, Andrew Fisher- Tomlin and Dan Bowyer will shine a light on the work of Blind Veterans UK photo RHS Hampton with a community garden for members, staff and volunteers that will be rebuilt at one of the charity’s centres after the show. Zoflora returns this year with a large woodland play garden for children and adults with disabilities such as autism. Accessible and inclusive, the garden aims to reconnect children with nature through play. ‘Brownfield – Metamorphosis’, by town planner and designer Martyn Wilson, explores the power of plants to regenerate naturally and become established among industrial ruins. Andreas Christodoulou and Jonathan Davies are dismissing the manicured lawns of modern garden design and encouraging urbanites to transform city garden spaces into natural ‘forest glades’. Landscape & Urban Design 21