Bisley based, Graduate Gardeners have won yet another coveted Gold Medal at the Malvern Spring Garden Show.

Designer, Mark Draper also scooped the ‘Best in Show' for his ‘Youth of Old Age Garden.

This is now the second year running that Graduates have won 'The Double'and raises the stakes for the coming years.

The garden was intended for a mature couple who enjoy outdoor life and prefer to use traditional materials, but want to use them in an imaginative way. They want the garden to blend with their stone cottage, connecting the indoor living space to the outdoor area. They enjoy gardening and entertaining, but also want a space that is calm and quiet where they can relax and plan for the future. They are keen to add detail to the design, while at the same time keeping the basic elements of privacy, a seating area, lawn and a water feature.

This is a no-nonsense, practical garden, where soft lines and planting are key requirements. Water and lighting bring an extra dimension to the design.

Clipped Yew hedges form the North and South boundaries, while three panels of Cotswold dry stone walling separated with upright Green Oak sleepers form the backdrop. The overflowing borders are planted with subtle greens with a stunning purple Cercis Canadensis ‘Forest Pansy' on one side.

A circular area of Natural York Stone paving surrounded by a low Cotswold Stone wall with sawn York coping stones forms the seating area, these coping stones begin the looping 'figure of eight which is the backbone of the garden and ends in a Buxus spiral surrounding a beautiful Cornus contraversa ( Wedding Cake Tree).

TV gardener, Joe Swift chose this as his ‘feature of the show' and the one thing that he would like to take away with him.

A stunning rill with a black cobble base snakes up the garden completing the picture,with five, floodlit, jets of water flowing into it from oak posts.

Bisley boys James Rogers, Richard Banyard and Dave Brown built the garden along with Matthew Blake.

Graduate Gardeners would like to thank Marshalls, Readyhedge, Landscape Plus and Iota for their generous sponsorship.

Herbaceous Plants                             Herbaceous Plants                     Shrubs

Anthriscus sylvestris

   ‘Ravenswing'                                 Rheum palmatum                       Rosmarinus officinalis

                                              ‘Red Herald' 

Aquilegia ‘Clementine Red'               Salvia officinalis                         S arcococca confusa

Aquilegia ‘Clementine White'           Tellima grandiflora                     Sarcococca ruscifolia

Arisarum proboscideum                    Tellima grandiflora                    Veronica gentionoides

                                               purpurea

Asplenium scolopendrium                Tiarella cordifolia                       Viburnum opulus

                                                                                     ‘Xanthocarpum'

Athyrium filix-femina                      Tiarella ‘Tiger Stripe'                 Viburnum plicatum ‘Mariesii'

Brunnera ‘Jack Frost'                                                                          Viburnum sargentii

Dicentra spectablis ‘Alba'                 Bulbs                                                ‘Onondaga'

Dryopteris felix-mas var.                                                      Viburnum x carlcephalum

Epimedium x rubrum                        Allium ‘Purple Sensation'            

Euphorbia amygdaloides                   Allium ‘Gladiator'    

       'Purpurea         '                                                                            Grasses

Euphorbia amygdaloides var.

       robbiae                                                                                         Festuca glauca     

Geranium macrorrhizum                                                                      Luzula nivea   

Geranium phaeum ‘Album'                 Shrubs                                        Miscanthus sinensis

                                                                                                                 ‘Malepartus'

Heuchera cylindrica                         Buxus sempervirens                      Molinia ‘Karl Foerster'   

        ‘Greenfinch'                            Cercis canadensis

 Heuchera ‘Obsidian'                             ‘Forest Pansy'                         Stipa tenuissima   

Hosta ‘Devon Green'                       Choisya ternata                            Uncinia rubra

Hosta ‘Royal Standard'                    Cotinus ‘Grace'           

Hosta undulata ‘Albo                       Euonymus alatus                            Trees

       Marginata'                                Exochorda serratifolia

 Iris ‘Immortality'                           ‘Snow White'

Lamium orvala                               Hebe ‘Mrs Winder'                         Acer griseum

Pachysandra terminalis                   Pittosporum tenuifolium                Cornus controversa

Polygonatum multiflorum               Pittosporum tenuifolium

                                               ‘Tom Thumb'