Chelsea Flower Show 2023: Sarah Price Uses a Painterly Palette in Her Dreamscape of a Garden
Chelsea Flower Show 2023: Sarah Price Uses a Painterly Palette in Her Dreamscape of a Garden
Chelsea Flower Show 2023: Sarah Price Uses a Painterly Palette in Her Dreamscape of a Garden
Photography by Clare Coulson.
Few precious gardens stop you in your tracks and take your breath away.
Irises ‘Benton Olive’, ‘Benton Susan’, ‘Benton Caramel’ and ‘Benton Pearl’ take center stage. Beyond the iris, the dazzling Aeonium ‘Zwartkop’ adds punchy dots of deepest burgundy while Rosa mutabilis—trained as a climber here—along with wisteria adorn the sublime rendered and color-washed walls.
Mellow bricks, gravel, and eye-popping plants including the stunning Aeonium ‘Zwartkop’.
Mellow bricks, gravel, and eye-popping plants including the stunning Aeonium ‘Zwartkop’.
These cultivars—bred over decades in the mid 20th century by the artist and plantsman Cedric Morris at his 16th century home in Benton End, Suffolk—enraptured her with their indescribable colors and gradations.
These cultivars—bred over decades in the mid 20th century by the artist and plantsman Cedric Morris at his 16th century home in Benton End, Suffolk—enraptured her with their indescribable colors and gradations.
Containers are crafted from air-dried sand, while a long counter provides an airy spot to display elegant pots and succulents.
Textural details born from waste materials. Even the ropes that are used around the garden have been laboriously crafted over weeks using waste hops and brambles.
Textural details born from waste materials. Even the ropes that are used around the garden have been laboriously crafted over weeks using waste hops and brambles.
Scene-stealing roses provide a pop of color.