Shortly after his competition win he quit his job to become a full-time gardener and by all accounts he's still doing that today, having recently designed a community garden for a local mining village, so that's great to know.As I flicked through the photos it was these slate ones that jumped out at me.
My car rarely moves off the drive these days so I wonder how they'd cope, but isn't it great to challenge our idea that parking spaces have to be dreary.And take a closer look. Now wouldn't that be fun. 2015 was the year the BBC and RHS partnered on The Great Chelsea Garden Challenge TV programme with the winner fulfilling their dream to design a garden at Chelsea. And it is a lot of tinned tomatoes to eat isn't it?While we were there the winner of the TV programme and garden designer, Sean Murray was talking to people admiring his garden. Great Chelsea Garden Challenge winner Sean Murray Sean in his garden at RHS Chelsea. Sean discusses the ideas behind his design. Natural and man-made forms share the space The dwelling forms a brick backdrop for the garden. I wonder though if having a prettier front garden would encourage me to spend more time in it, or if the busy main road would still dominate. I think I mooted the standing the slate up on its edge approach to MOH at the time in our own garden, and you're right, we didn't do it, nor even consider it. Sean, 51, is an occupational therapist and nurse who lives with his wife Eileen and 21-year-old … The Great Chelsea Garden Challenge Six amateur garden designers compete for the chance to design and build a garden on Main Avenue at the Chelsea Flower Show 2015. There's an abundance of plants, and practical off street parking too, and I suspect there's another message in there for all of … Amateur garden designers compete for the chance to design and build a garden at the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show. The RHS/BBC competition series announced its winner in the run-up to the show.
I hadn't realised at the time that this "river" of sedums and alpines was the off street parking area - surely it's way too pretty to plonk a car on top of? I've some seeds in the greenhouse which are resolutely refusing to do their thing (so far)The sculpture looks great, but even though MOH admired it I think I'd struggle to get him to agree to a "ring of old rusty tins" in our garden space, let alone the catering size tins under the bench seating. I know it was a Chelsea garden, but the attention to detail is phenomenal. I think the latter, but I do wish we had more greenery there - maybe one day, if logistics can be worked out and around - ours is a complicated space, used by us and the three flats next door.Even then - before I re-acknowledged my love of yellow - it was the yellow flowers that drew me in. And lupins too, another favourite, which although a favourite I'm still struggling to grow. I know it's just a facade, but there you go.
With James Alexander-Sinclair, Ann-Marie Powell, Joe Swift. There's an abundance of plants, and practical off street parking too, and I suspect there's another message in there for all of us that have very little greenery in our front gardens.At the time I remember thinking I didn't think much of the roof of their house - isn't it funny how those things stick with you? The Great Chelsea Garden Challenge. Six amateur garden designers compete for the chance to design and build a garden on Main Avenue at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2015. On iPlayer
Sean discusses the ideas behind his design - a Gertrude Jekyll garden at Lindisfarne Castle. And it's unusual if I don't have project (or two) on the go, so often I'll share those here too. But it's a great look.What do you think - would a front garden like this work for you?Hello, I'm Stephanie and I blog about my life here at 139a.You'll find posts related to homes and gardens, that's mine and those I visit. I recently discovered some unedited and mostly un-looked at photos from Chelsea in 2015, and as I won't be at Chelsea this year, I thought the timing fortuitous so am sharing some of those, now edited photos, today. Beat the literal heat with three films that capture the spirit of summer love.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. And who could blame him, it was definitely his moment to shine. Sean Murray's garden at the Chelsea Flower Show (Heathcliff O'Malley/The Telegraph) The number of entirely paved gardens is now estimated at 4.5 million, with a …
The winner of BBC2’s Great Chelsea Garden Challenge – the amateur garden designer whose garden was built at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show – was revealed in the run-up to the show as Sean Murray. We watched the series avidly - armchair gardening really was the best that year!In his Chelsea garden the winner, Sean Murray, created a front garden for a couple of keen gardeners nearing retirement. Sean describes his role as project manager on the courtyard garden in the young offender’s institution (Northumberland Prison) as his defining moment.
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