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RHS Chatsworth 2018
Working in partnership with landscape designer, Alistair Mockett, we designed The 'Rising Up' long border show garden. The garden commemorated 100 years since the Suffragette Movement achieved the right to vote for women. Like the suffagettes’ defiant uprising, figures of yew emerged through clouds of colour, standing strong and upright. The tiny white flowers of Gypsophila twist dress-like around the Juniperus, hinting at femininity. Each delicate flower represents a woman rallying behind these influential political groups. Within the Suffagette Movement, some engaged in violent protests, depicted by spiky, upright perennials, which contrast with the graceful forms.
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