Silver-GiltConcrete 2.0. Tythorne Garden Design and Pickwell Paving's first ever show garden at RHS Malvern 2024 Spring Festival Designed for a young professional couple with a keen interest in sustainability, the garden featured a wonderful garden studio by Malvern Garden Buildings which could be used both for home-working and for downtime.
Celebrating sustainable choices
The garden celebrates sustainable choices, with reclaimed, recycled and repurposed materials taking centre stage. The structure over the bed is made from end-of-life scaffolding boards, as is the majority of the boundary screen. Reclaimed industrial stillages have been repurposed as raised beds and to create a simple water feature. Strips of natural stone (cut from damaged and waste stone) provide a beautiful and functional path to link the various areas of the garden. The same stone has been used to create two decorative wall panels and a bespoke bench seat. Any remaining offcuts of the stone have been crushed to form an attractive (and permeable) gravel surface. Sustainability is also apparent with the recycled acrylic ‘star gazing’ panels above the bed, and the weather-resistant curtains hanging on three sides of the overhead structure which have been produced from recycled boat sails.