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H&G DESIGN gArdening

the future

is green

We take a look at up-and-coming garden designers
and the creative ideas they have to o≠er for regenerating
Britain’s landscape, both urban and rural

A graduate of Capel Manor College, won a Gold Designer of the Year 2012, and as a fnalist in
new generation of garden designers
medal for her World category garden inspired
both that category and the Paper Landscapes
is on the rise. Through a growing
range of dedicated courses, increasing
Award in 2013, were no fashes in the pan.
by and named after Spirit of the Aegean for
numbers of people are being trained
and thereafter supported through member- Noble Caledonia, while London College of Indeed, since its inception, the Student cate-
Garden Design graduate Jon Sims was awarded
gory of the SGD Awards has been hugely
ship of bodies such as the Society of Garden a Silver Gilt for his show garden for Jacksons competitive. Last year, the honour went to two
Designers (SGD) to play an active part in the Fencing, Secret Garden Party, a design for a winners, Jiyoung Kim and Joanna Midwinter,
front-line effort to conserve and establish the community of gardeners working separately for two very different but astounding designs.
natural world in town and country. but within one large plot. Jiyoung Kim’s Deep Simplicity, which aims
The gardens they are creating are not just Jon’s latest win is proof, if it were needed, to help and comfort people with mental health
beautiful and interesting. Many are innovative that his earlier successes as the SGD’s Student issues, was, said the judges, “An incredibly
and have already caught the eyes of judges at impressive and dynamic design, and a creative
prestigious events such as the SGD Garden and ingenious use of the site. The concept is
Design Awards and the RHS fower shows. phenomenally challenging but the approach to
Among those celebrating early career the sheer scale of the project is very mature.”
success at RHS Hampton Court (the world’s Of Joanna Midwinter’s design for the New
largest fower show and 25 years old this year) Great Square at Plymouth Civic Centre, the
were recent graduates Stuart Charles Towner judges said it was “Practical for public use but
and Bethany Williams, whose Green Seam extremely beautiful, and with a real ring of
design for the regeneration of a former colliery truth about it. A mature design that displays
site not only gives the landscape new shape and a very sensitive approach to dealing with an
function, but supports and develops its existing iconic design by Geoffrey Jellicoe, while creating
and surprisingly diverse fora. The garden, for something wonderful for 21st-century use.”
the pair’s sponsor and alma mater, Hadlow As the Society of Garden Designers’ judging
College/University of Greenwich, won Gold panel sits down to consider the 2015 Student
ABOVE Jiyoung Kim (left) and Joanna Midwinter
and was also awarded Best in Show. (right), joint winners of the Student category of the entries, we caught up with Joanna Midwinter,
Also at Hampton Court, Esra Parr (see page SGD Awards 2014. BELOW Part of Jiyoung’s design to talk to her about her win and to fnd out
Deep Sympathy (left) and Joanna’s design for the
157), a recent landscape and garden design what came next. e
New Great Square at Plymouth Civic Centre (right).

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