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Give Me Shelter
An
award-winning garden at the Chelsea Flower Show built by a Chiswick
company has gone to a good home and raised thousands for charity
The Shelter Garden was constructed by Stephen Quallington and members
of his W4-based London Gardens team.
Seen by thousands of visitors to the show, and millions on TV, the
show garden supported housing charity Shelter and won a bronze award.
It was centred on a low-cost A-frame structure which could be used
for easily constructed homes for the homeless. Designed by Hammersmith’s
Philippa O’Brien and Jeff Dutt, it included a living area and tree
house.
Auctioned after the show, with proceeds going to Shelter, the garden
was bought by the Delta Centre in Carlow, Ireland, which provides
specialist services for people with learning disabilities. The centre
runs its own garden centre and is developing a multi-sensory garden.
Chiswick resident Stephen, who spent over three weeks building The
Shelter Garden and then dismantling it at the end of the RHS event,
says: “It was the hardest 24 days of my life, but well worth the
effort. We had lots of favourable comments from visitors to Chelsea
and I’m pleased it’s now gone to a good home.”
Joint designer Philippa adds: “The main theme of this garden is
the family and we wanted planting and a structure within it that
they can all enjoy and that inspires the child in all of us.”
May
30, 2003
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