Three finalists: a small urban garden which the owners designed themselves, chose all the plants and planted it themselves, and who maintain it themselves. They transformed it into a gorgeous haven of different green foliage, running water and obliterating the housing estate it sat in. Next finalist: a wildlife natural garden bursting with unusual planting and wild spaces leaving Mother Nature to do what she does best. Third finalists: paid a top garden designer a fortune to come up with a money-no-object mini Versailles in Cheshire - where money talks. Then hired a top garden landscaper plus an army of gardeners to plant it all out and maintain it on a daily basis. There's probably only half a dozen people in this country with acres and acres of flat land, and who could afford to pay others to provide them with such an expensive and manicured estate - somewhere to sit and quaff vintage champagne rather than ever kneel down and do some weeding. Not at all inspiring to the majority of the country who have limited space and budgets, and a slap in the face to the other gardeners who passionately did it all themselves. Zoe and Lachlan - you should have argued for the urban small garden. You know it.
Review of Garden of the Year
Garden of the Year
(2022– )
They blew it at the end! Wrong decision....
31 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers