Marcus Green is currently studying Post Graduate Garden Design and has submitted a garden which he explains as ‘Predominately this is an art installation; sculpture that is a garden. The static shapes are supported by living, breathing, fluid planting. There are two fundamental ideas in this garden, one structural and one conceptual. The cantilevered main bed and two wings form the structural element. I wanted to meet the challenge that a small space demands with a design that is simple but not simplistic, and so the first thing I did was liberate as much space as possible. For me, this meant exploring the vertical plane and so I gave the garden several floors, multiplying available space. At the same time I had a chance meeting with Henry Moore’s glorious sculpture, ‘Knife Edge’. In essence I took from it the notion of two shapes apparently divided from one. To this I added my idea for multiple levels, producing the sketch below, and from here grew the idea for the cantilevered bed.
Barbara Shadomy is a part time garden design student and has entered the competition with her garden The Lost Language of Flowers spelling out the story of pursuit, consideration, romance, passion, unrequited love, birth and platonic love by using plants as language.
