The Team
BBC Gardeners World Live NEC APL Avenue
Exclusive Show Garden Competition 2024
APL Designers and Landscaper members were invited to participate in an exclusive competition to build a Show Garden at BBC Gardeners’ World Live 2024.
The winning of a BBC Gardeners’ World Live medal provides valuable accreditation to their company/practice.
The Competition Brief
The theme of 2024 APL Avenue Show Garden was “The Good Life”.
This can mean many things to many people and therefore can be interpreted in a number of ways!
“The Good Life” could simply be the opportunity to use the garden space for relaxing, entertaining, eating drinking.
A garden full of structure and low maintenance planting to simply sit in and enjoy those warm summer evenings. This could be the client’s good life.
It could also be a garden packed with nature, Biodiversity at its core... not only supplying a good life for the client, but for the world around the space you have created.
Or if you are of an age and remember the BBC
hit show “The Good Life” the design could focus on sustainability and self-sufficiency taking in ideas around recycling, upcycling, and re-using. A garden packed with ideas, making valuable use of every square metre of space.
The Winners
Notes from the Mediterranean
“Notes from the Mediterranean” celebrates the timeless beauty of the region, drawing inspiration from the landscapes of Greece, Italy, and France. The garden welcomes visitors with soft, warm colour tones and natural stone elements that evoke the sun-drenched vistas of the Mediterranean.
Designed by Katerina Kantalis
Built by APL Members JG Landscaping
Notes From The Mediterranean
The Garden
Notes From The Mediterranean Wins Peoples Choice
Eco Oasis Garden
Inspired by this years theme; “The Good Life” the garden aims to inspire visitors to embrace harmonious and sustainable practices while enjoying easy living and making good choices.
The garden aims to combine eco-friendly elements with aesthetic appeal, and mindful living.
Designed by MAPL Dan Hartley
Built by APL Members Tisserand English Gardens Ltd
Eco Oasis Garden
Front View Of The Garden
Clever Water Features
Dan Hartley (Designer) and Els Tisserand (Landscaper) Scoop Best Show garden & Best Construction
Costa Cadiz
The ‘Costa Cadiz’ garden showcases, in a small and transferable scale, the landscape of the province of Cadiz on the southern Atlantic coast of Spain. It reminds many of the ‘Good Life’ that we live whilst away on holiday in warmer climates. Corten steel raised planters depict the red cliffs of this coastline, and sandstone balls represent the rocks and boulders that dot its length.
Designed by MAPL Anna Helps Garden Design
Costa Cadiz
Beautiful Water Feature
Panoramic View Showing Seating Area
A Different Aspect Showing Sumptuous Planting
Lunatica
Lunatica is a garden about water health and security within Britain in 2024.
The garden responds to the theme ‘a good life’ as clean healthy water is vital for all forms that a good life would take.
The name comes from the twice daily influence that the moon has on the bodies of water on our planet – and indeed the plants. Luna – moon, ‘tica’ – nautical sounding…
Designed by APL Member Joshua Fenton
Built by APL Member Fenton Gardens Ltd
Lunatica
Clever Water Feature and Seating Area
Behind the Planting Was A Toilet and Washroom.
A Full View Of This Fantastic Garden