Paradise Retained imagines how a paradise for wildlife and humans can persist even in a front garden incorporating a parking space.
Inspired by lockdown tales of brightly-planted front gardens making passers-by smile, this garden features year-round uplifting colours and playful elements. A parking space is transformed into a whimsical ‘quilt’ using brightly coloured SUDS-compliant parking tiles; the bespoke durable enamelled copper wall hanging echoes the planting colours and tiles.
A surprise miniature wild driveway garden at the quilt’s centre, bare-stemmed urban tree and wall trellises maximise planting opportunities in this restricted space.
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BBC Radio 2 and The One Show's Sow Grow and Show Garden
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RHS and BBC North West Community Urban Garden
RHS and BBC North West Community Urban Garden
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The Cotton Traders Greener Future Garden
Feature Garden
BBC Radio 2 and The One Show's Sow Grow and Show Garden
BBC Radio 2 and The One Show's Sow Grow and Show GardenFeature Garden
RHS and BBC North West Community Urban Garden
RHS and BBC North West Community Urban GardenGreener Front Gardens
The Cotton Traders Greener Future Garden
The Cotton Traders Greener Future GardenGet involved
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