Rhoda offers garden design help to anyone who asks. This year she worked at Chelsea again on Hugo Bugg’s Gold-medal-winning, Main Avenue garden; one of only 6 show gardens that were awarded gold this year.
This was a great garden illustrating how you can create an interesting design while managing water responsibly in a garden. Water doesn’t have to run-off all the hard surfaces and go straight down the drain or cause flooding, it can go through a series of ponds and filtering systems to ensure that it is used by the plants and filters into the soil and only then does any overflow or excess finally go down a drain.