BBC Gardeners World Live NEC APL Avenue
A fantastic opportunity to enter for APL Avenue 2024
Exclusive Show Garden Competition 2024
APL Designers and Landscaper members are 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 your company/practice, this year we are opening the competition to both APL designers and design and build
landscaping companies.
For the eighth year running, the organisers of BBC Gardeners’ World Live, River Street Events, are offering a £15,000 contribution to each of the four designers or design and build landscape companies selected to create fabulous gardens at the show.
In addition, there will be generous sponsorship of materials and supporting benefits including PR, hospitality opportunities and show tickets.
Competition Brief
The theme of 2024 APL Avenue Show Garden is “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 your 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 theme has the power to conjure up many ideas. But we also ask that it has the ability to inspire others with take home elements from your design and try it for themselves, keeping budget in mind.
Designs should incorporate achievable elements that reflect a market threatened with the current cost of living crisis so that it is relatable to individuals at the show.
Size
The garden should cover an area of between 60 and 80m2. Please make sure you specify in your design which side you would like the garden to be viewed from if built, and please note the garden should be viewable from at least two sides.
Product Suppliers at the show
A hard landscaping supplier will be working with the show and allowing designers/landscapers to choose from their range to include in the garden free of charge. At current we are waiting on confirmation on the
supplier but will let you know as soon as possible.
There is no requirement to use any particular or different types of products, but you must indicate your choices on your plan. You are also welcomed to use products from other providers.
The Organisers are also working with a hedging supplier who will provide their product on hire for the show.
Rolawn topsoil and turf is also at your discretion to use, please let the team know the quantities required as early as possible.
Drawing and Submission Requirements
With your submission please also include the following:
• A coloured CAD or sketch plan view of garden
• Three dimensional perspectives of the garden showing the views that visitors will see
• Planting plan and schedule with a mood board of proposed plants
• Construction layout plan with key dimensions annotated excavations and elevations
• Costings
• Funding statement – applicants should indicate how the funding for the garden will be made up, with a maximum spend of £35,000.
A £15,000 grant from River Street will be given to each garden excluding any sponsored products used.
Where to submit Applications?
Please submit your applications to:
Lucy Tremlett
Immediate Live
77 Brook Green
Hammersmith
W6 7BT
[email protected]
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