July '09 News

SHH is delighted to announce that one its favourite creative partners - garden designer Kate Gould of Helios Designs - has once more been declared a winner at London's world-famous Chelsea Flower Show.  Kate was awarded a gold medal and her 'Eco Chic' garden given the title of Best Urban Garden at this year's show, repeating her 2007 success, when she also won a gold medal and was declared the winner of Chic Garden section.

'Eco Chic', which judges told Kate was 'faultless', really struck a chord with judges and visitors alike at this year's show, taking as its subject the potential of under-used city spaces and the re-use of potentially wasted materials on building development sites. The garden shows how such spaces, where there is no obvious water source or proximity to other greenery, could nonetheless offer garden-lovers an elegant oasis of tranquillity.  The garden's 'eco' credentials come from the integrated use in the build of discarded surplus elements left behind by builders and contractors, from scaffold boards and paving to ballast and planks.
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