NEW DESIGN BURSARY
UK practice McWilliam Studio was among the winners in this year’s Association of Professional Landscape Designers International Design Awards, taking gold in the Show Gardens category for its 2017 RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden Breaking Ground, which featured monumental steel structures. In the Residential Category $25,000$100,000, Washington DC-based practice Jennifer Horn Landscape Architecture also won gold for a garden in Maryland (shown), where massed planting, which varies in colour and texture, references the clients’ art collection. apld.org
The London College of Garden
Design has announced the winner of its new £6,000 bursary to study on the Planting Design Diploma taught at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Andrew Smith-Williams’ winning design is for a small, narrow city plot that provides year-round interest and uses a sustainable approach to planting. Based on Andrew’s own south-facing garden, the 2.3m x 8m space features a wide range of perennials, grasses and bulbs, and a small Sambucus nigra Golden Tower (= ‘Jdeboer001’) tree, and also includes socialising space for four people . lcgd.org.uk
A new sensory garden for Naomi House hospice for children and young adults in Winchester, has been designed by Luke Mills of
The Landscape Service. The design provides multiple spaces for play and therapy. Wide paths allow children to interact with the sensory planting and there will be wheelchair accessible swings and a roundabout. A small amphitheatre enables outdoor learning. New wheelchair accessible planters will be installed around the existing chicken run, where children with a range of disabilities can engage with gardening. naomihouse.org.uk
Arundel Castle’s historic ‘stew ponds’ (where fish were once kept for stews) have been re-designed by head gardener Martin Duncan to provide a water garden that teems with wildlife. A circular route leads you around the three ponds, which are connected by a boardwalk and rustic bridge. A thatched roundhouse provides a focal point and a viewing place for visitors. There is also a new thatched boathouse built by local artisans Kevin Coull and Bradley Hanson, using sustainably grown timber. The thatching for both was completed by master thatcher Gavin MacDonald, and his sons. arundelcastle.org