I am a part time garden design lecturer at Pershore College of Horticulture in Worcestershire. I also run my own design practice called The Gardensmith. (www.thegardensmith.co.uk)
My past has always been in design. I studied fine art at The University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg in South Africa. When I returned to England my husband and I ran our own business giftware business where I designed jewellery and corporate giftware for the big retailers.
After two children I re-trained in Garden Design at Pershore College for two years and then continues on to take the RHS advanced certificate in Horticulture. I have always loved gardening so it made sense to combine it with my art training. I recently found out that my grandad was a head gardener at a big house many years ago so it must run in the blood!
I have just spent the day at Malvern Spring Show hoping to find some innovative designs! Unfortunately, the show gardens were the same old story!
Why must we constantly re-work old style from history in quaint pastiches? Why can we not move on to new styles and leave the past behind? Why must I live in a modern house with Victorian inspired barge boards and ridge tiles? Why does my local town have imitation Victorian lamp posts and litter bins?
We need to develop a new style of municipal design for the future. What are we going to remember this era for? Diarmud Gavin is slated for his 'concrete' structures in his gardens or his colourful balls on sticks but at least he is opening debate about what is good and bad in design.
Malvern Spring show today was full of wrought iron and 'olde worlde' chairs, tables and sculpture. The show gardens were either souless or gothic follies. All the garden sheds looked as though Goldilocks was about the emerge through the doors!
Over the following blogs I will look at today's garden design and how it is developing in the 21st century. I will be visiting Chelsea, Hampton Court and Tatton Flower show this summer. Hopefully there will be something new and exciting. I cannot bring myself to go the Gardeners World Live show. It has become a giant shopping mall selling nothing but gardening gloves, solar lights (which give out a sad pale blue light which is completely useless) and garden sheds that look as though Godilocks will emerge from them at any time.
My past has always been in design. I studied fine art at The University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg in South Africa. When I returned to England my husband and I ran our own business giftware business where I designed jewellery and corporate giftware for the big retailers.
After two children I re-trained in Garden Design at Pershore College for two years and then continues on to take the RHS advanced certificate in Horticulture. I have always loved gardening so it made sense to combine it with my art training. I recently found out that my grandad was a head gardener at a big house many years ago so it must run in the blood!
I have just spent the day at Malvern Spring Show hoping to find some innovative designs! Unfortunately, the show gardens were the same old story!
Why must we constantly re-work old style from history in quaint pastiches? Why can we not move on to new styles and leave the past behind? Why must I live in a modern house with Victorian inspired barge boards and ridge tiles? Why does my local town have imitation Victorian lamp posts and litter bins?
We need to develop a new style of municipal design for the future. What are we going to remember this era for? Diarmud Gavin is slated for his 'concrete' structures in his gardens or his colourful balls on sticks but at least he is opening debate about what is good and bad in design.
Malvern Spring show today was full of wrought iron and 'olde worlde' chairs, tables and sculpture. The show gardens were either souless or gothic follies. All the garden sheds looked as though Goldilocks was about the emerge through the doors!
Over the following blogs I will look at today's garden design and how it is developing in the 21st century. I will be visiting Chelsea, Hampton Court and Tatton Flower show this summer. Hopefully there will be something new and exciting. I cannot bring myself to go the Gardeners World Live show. It has become a giant shopping mall selling nothing but gardening gloves, solar lights (which give out a sad pale blue light which is completely useless) and garden sheds that look as though Godilocks will emerge from them at any time.
If you would like to know more about my business then please visit www.thegardensmith.co.uk
posted by Cat Smith at 11:59 AM
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