Colm Joseph Gardens   RHS Chelsea Flower Show modern rose garden design   Photo credit Britt Willoughby Dyer
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A contemporary rose garden

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Colm Joseph's award-winning garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019, The Perennial Lifeline Garden, featured a classical rose garden reimagined through modern planting design as a more naturalistic, sustainable and lower maintenance 'rose meadow'.

 

Colm Joseph Gardens - RHS Chelsea Flower Show modern landscape design

 

Colm Joseph Gardens - RHS Chelsea Flower Show ammi majus laser cut steel screen
Colm Joseph Gardens - RHS Chelsea Flower Show award winning garden design

 

Within the rose meadow, freestanding metal screens, stone and topiary columns, and a pair of modern fountains combined to create a contemporary colonnade. Multi-stem trees added their sculptural form, framing views through the space.

 

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Colm Joseph Gardens   RHS Chelsea Flower Show Camassia leichtlinii semi plena   Photo credit Britt Willoughby Dyer
Colm Joseph Gardens   RHS Chelsea Flower Show water feature rill naturalistic planting design   Photo credit Britt Willoughby Dyer
Colm Joseph Gardens   RHS Chelsea Flower Show perennial meadow briza media Anchusa �Loddon Royalist�   Photo credit Britt Willoughby Dyer

 

Colm Joseph Gardens   RHS Chelsea Flower Show rose meadow planting design   Photo credit Britt Willoughby Dyer

 

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Colm Joseph Gardens - RHS Chelsea Flower Show modern water feature Valeriana pyrenaica

 

Bespoke limestone columns and contemporary laser-cut steel screens combined with topiary columns to form an abstracted colonnade. A modern steel fountain traversed the colonnade to allow visitors to walk underneath the cascading water. The fountain flowed into a rill that circulated through the rose meadow planting, while cantilevered limestone seats provided quiet spots for visitors to relax.

 

The garden combined crisp, modernist design alongside loose, naturalistic planting

 

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Colm Joseph Gardens - RHS Chelsea Flower Show carpinus betulus Rosa 'Purple Skyliner'

 

A modern reimagining of two classical garden design ideas, a colonnade and a rose garden, this design used the principles and materials of classical design that define Sir Roy Strong's The Laskett Gardens. The garden was created as a celebration of the 180th anniversary of horticultural charity, Perennial, and Sir Roy's bequeathment of The Laskett Gardens to Perennial.

 

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Colm Joseph Gardens   RHS Chelsea Flower Show water feature rill contemporary garden design   Photo credit Britt Willoughby Dyer

 

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