It has been designed by Swedish landscape architect Ulf Nordfjell, who returns to Chelsea Flower Show for a second time following his gold medal-winning debut appearance in 2007 with his garden "A Tribute to Linnaeus''.
"This year, I wanted to honour British traditions. I thought it would be interesting to mix your heritage of cottage gardening with Scandinavian modernism, and to flirt with the English style." With a degree in biology and botany, and a well-honed skill as a ceramicist, Nordfjell combines a deep love of landscape, instilled in him as a child in the north of Sweden.
With a passion for contemporary design. In his gardens, he is known for his sharp-edged, minimalist distillations of wild nature - forest glade and dark tarn reinterpreted as formal courtyard and steel canal, or meadow wildflowers marshalled into perfect lines and blocks. And at Chelsea Flower Show 2009, he gives cottage gardening a similar treatment, dissecting its elements and remoulding them in modern sculptural forms.
"This year, I wanted to honour British traditions. I thought it would be interesting to mix your heritage of cottage gardening with Scandinavian modernism, and to flirt with the English style." With a degree in biology and botany, and a well-honed skill as a ceramicist, Nordfjell combines a deep love of landscape, instilled in him as a child in the north of Sweden.
With a passion for contemporary design. In his gardens, he is known for his sharp-edged, minimalist distillations of wild nature - forest glade and dark tarn reinterpreted as formal courtyard and steel canal, or meadow wildflowers marshalled into perfect lines and blocks. And at Chelsea Flower Show 2009, he gives cottage gardening a similar treatment, dissecting its elements and remoulding them in modern sculptural forms.
