Colour Box
A celebration of the way gardeners help each other, coming together to produce something beautiful and colourful
Show Gardens
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A stone walkway leads across two reflective pools to a seating area, featuring colourful cubes which are both decorative and functional.
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A stone walkway leads across two reflective pools to a seating area, featuring colourful cubes which are both decorative and functional.
![Colour Box](/getmedia/ec4b26a7-2b54-455f-b868-ba208fdee9a1/B21A7994.jpg?width=1088&height=612&ext=.jpg)
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Did you know...
- Aimed to be an antidote to the big budgets and plentiful hard landscaping of larger show gardens, this garden is about plants and people
- It is full of joyful colour clashes from herbaceous perennials and grasses including Imperata cylindrica 'Rubra' and many achilleas
- Achilleas are the designer’s favourites for their many colours, drought tolerance and because they are great for pollinators
About the Garden
The Colour Box garden is a celebration of people helping people within the horticultural community. The designer simply set out to build a backdrop so that the plants could take centre stage. It is also full of colour – nothing muted here!The garden is the result of asking for ‘help’ – the vision was to produce something beautiful, despite having no financial sponsorship, and shows what can be achieved with a small budget.
The team that has given time to this project has come together through the active and supportive horticultural Twitter community and represents a diverse group of people and trades.
With thanks to Rolawn, The Build Team, GeoMet Seating
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