Back at work now after two hugely affirming days working on the Key Garden, I’m still basking in a warm glow from having been privileged enough to be involved with this inspirational project, even at a very late stage.
Although I’d chatted with many of the Eden team involved with this project many times over the [...]
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Warm glow…
Posted in Paul Stone - Garden designer on 26 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ready for the judges
Posted in Paul Stone - Garden designer on 16 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At last the garden is ready. After a Herculean six months involving more than 200 gardeners the length and breadth of the country, The Key is sitting in the Chelsea sunshine looking, if I may say so myself, like a job well done.
Sid from St Giles Trust and I have just sprinkled ten thousands keys [...]
Time’s moving on – into the 2nd phase of planting
Posted in Paul Stone - Garden designer, tagged eden, RHS Chelsea flower show, The Key Garden on 13 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yet another period of change as we say goodbye to Sandra, Jane and Stephanie. This 2nd of the 3 phases of the planting involved digging in hard and laying down the groundwork that will become the finished product this week. In this we were finely supported by team after team of volunteers from near and [...]
The vertical wall and story wall are up
Posted in Paul Stone - Garden designer on 11 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The vertical wall is up – all 455 square feet of it – and it is top quality. The impact is fantastic – a credit to all the volunteers from the different homeless centres and the prisoners who have taken part. Many of them haven’t done any gardening before but they really got in to [...]
The people are the key to this garden
Posted in Paul Stone - Garden designer on 5 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The more time I spend with the homeless and disadvantaged people who areworking on the Key the more I realise that this is a story about people who don’t fit in. Some don’t know how to. Some are very clever. Some have been foolish. Often both. One said he hadn’t worked like this for years, [...]
Achieving something special
Posted in Paul Stone - Garden designer, tagged HCA, Homes and Communities Agency, Places of Change, RHS Chelsea flower show, Shekinah Mission, St Giles, St Mungos, The Key Garden, The Limes on 1 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We had a really amazing day yesterday and a very busy one. This was the day we set up camp – effectively the first day on the job. Four teams of volunteers turned up from The Limes, St Mungos, Shekinah Mission and St Giles. At first I found the prospect of having to manage 14 [...]
Challenging stereotypes
Posted in Paul Stone - Garden designer, tagged homeless, Places of Change, RHS Chelsea flower show, The Key Garden on 28 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Imagine creating a garden as a modern allegory with themes of darkness and light, despair and hope woven around the very real issue of homelessness. This is the challenge we have been set with The Key for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
What we are trying to convey with The Key is a journey, not just through [...]
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