8 February 2023
Wealth manager RBC Brewin Dolphin returns to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year with a main avenue garden inspired by a young couple, who have drawn on the experience and lessons from their grandparents to create a garden that provides habitat and allows biodiversity to flourish.
Sustainability is at the heart of the RBC Brewin Dolphin garden design again this year. Everything that can be seen in the garden is either on loan or due to be re-homed when the RHS Chelsea Flower Show concludes, ensuring nothing goes to waste. As part of the journey of creating the garden and in keeping with the inspiration, returning garden designer, Paul Hervey-Brookes will be mentoring Claire Dawson, horticulturist, into the world of garden creation at the world’s most prestigious flower show.
Paul Hervey-Brookes, garden designer for the RBC Brewin Dolphin garden said: “I’m honoured to have been chosen to design the RBC Brewin Dolphin garden again for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023. This year I’m using a diverse range of plants and materials to create a young couple’s garden to last a lifetime with a message that really resonates with me, around the importance of passing knowledge and lessons on to the next generation.”
Rupert Tyler, business development director at RBC Brewin Dolphin and chairman of the National Garden Scheme said: “Passing on our experience and knowledge to the next generation is more important now than ever. Here at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, a key date in the British summer calendar, we have a great opportunity to showcase this. Much like gardening, if you can cultivate your finances with careful planning and the right advice, you can create a thriving environment for your future generations to inherit and enjoy. It’s wonderful to think that – through the careful selection of plants and materials – a garden like this will stand the test of time to be enjoyed for many years to come”.
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show runs from 23 to 27 May 2023. For further information on the RBC Brewin Dolphin Garden visit here.
Disclaimers
- The value of investments can fall and you may get back less than you invested
- RBC Brewin Dolphin is a trading name of Brewin Dolphin Limited. Brewin Dolphin Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (Financial Services Register reference number 124444).
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Planting
Planting will be richly herbaceous with structural planting from topiary shapes and shrubs providing a solid backbone to the plot. Three porcelain sculptures by Parisian ceramicist Gregory Tchalikian mark a focal point to the central terrace, they use the abstract form of a flower in three stages to metaphorically tell the story of knowledge being passed on.
Dressing
The garden will be dressed using Fermob’s 1900 collection which is steeped in history, with spiral lines inspired by the wrought iron balconies of Parisian buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries. Fermob is the last company to be able to manufacture such products in its own workshops, with the scrolls and rings forged by hand. This artisanal technique makes each piece of furniture truly unique.
The pavilion
The pavilion is inspired by historical architectural form and uses the traditional vernacular technique of pegged oak to create the main body of the structure with blackened steel ‘leaves’ overlapping each other to provide a modern sculptural roof which provides shelter and allows ventilation. The pavilion oak structure is a bespoke piece, based on the dimensions of the Oak Porch No. 11, created by the UK’s leading oak building manufacturer Border Oak and the roof section will be created by Alkin Engineering.
PRESS INFORMATION
For further information, please contact:
Chloe McFarlane: chloe.mcfarlane@brewin.co.uk / Tel: +44 (0) 7472 893635
Richard Janes: richard.janes@brewin.co.uk / Tel: +44 (0) 20 3201 3343
Payal Nair: payal.nair@brewin.co.uk / Tel: +44 (0) 20 3201 3342
ABOUT THE DESIGNER
Paul Hervey-Brookes is a multi-award-winning garden designer renowned for creating classically English landscapes and gardens with rich, multi-layered habitats. His plant-focused philosophy is rooted in his early training at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and subsequent garden experiences in the UK and abroad.
He has created show gardens for over 10 years with 12 Gold medals at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and RHS Chatsworth. Paul is well known to RHS Flower Show visitors as both an RHS Gardens Judge and Mentor for the Young Designer of the Year Competition at RHS Tatton and the first-time designer ‘Balcony & Container Gardens’ category at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Paul has also created show gardens on the international stage, winning Gold in Japan, Russia and The United Sates. He was awarded a Fellowship of the Institute of Quarrying in 2017 in recognition of his work to bring wider knowledge of the industry to the general public. He is the only person outside of the quarrying industry to receive this honour.
ABOUT RBC BREWIN DOLPHIN
RBC Brewin Dolphin is one of the UK and Ireland’s leading wealth managers and traces its origins back to 1762. With £51.7* billion in assets under management, we offer award-winning, personalised wealth management services from bespoke, discretionary investment management to retirement planning and tax-efficient investing.
Our qualified investment managers and financial planners are based in 33 offices across the UK, Jersey and Republic of Ireland. They are committed to the most exacting standards of client service, with long-term thinking and absolute focus on our clients’ needs at the core.
As part of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), we are now able to draw on the strength of a global financial institution to continue to improve the service we provide to our clients and drive further innovation across our business.
*as at 30th June 2022.
The value of investments can fall and you may get back less than you invested. RBC Brewin Dolphin is a trading name of Brewin Dolphin Limited. Brewin Dolphin Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (Financial Services Register reference number 124444).