Aralia wins the BALI Landscape Design Excellence Award for the third time running!

Earlier this year Aralia Garden Design submitted 'Regents Park Terrace', a recently completed project based in London (featured below), into the BALI Landscape Design Excellence Awards 2011. Having won the Excellence and Principal Award for the past 2 years, we didn't get our hopes up. However on the 2nd December 2011 Patricia Fox attended the awards at Great Room in Grosvenor House in central London, only to come away with our third consecutive BALI Landscape Design Excellence Award! We are thrilled and they will all be going up on the walls of our new offices very soon!

Maltese Road by Aralia - RHS/SGD Open Garden 25th September 2011

On Sunday the 25th September from 12 noon till 4pm, Maltese Road, winning garden of the Principal BALI Landscape Excellence Award 2010 was open to the public for the first time, as part of the RHS/SGD National Open Garden Scheme (new this year). It was a massive success, we had wonderful weather, and we'd like to thank everyone that came to enjoy the beautiful garden. We had lots of lovely feedback from our visitors. A lot mentioned that it is lovely to see a 'normal' sized garden open to the public for a change! Our client Paul Edwards also raised £51 for the Juvenile Diabetes Charity by selling drinks and home made cakes to the visitors. Here are a few photos from the day..

Designer Patricia Fox with our client Paul Edwards.

We hope everyone that visited the garden gained lots of inspiration. If you weren't able to see the garden in person, fear not as BBC Gardeners' World are filming the garden next week to be featured shortly after, so keep an eye out for it!

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The Studio, Clipped Hedge Cottage, Dunmow Road, Hatfield Heath, Hertfordshire, CM22 7EE

Grand Designs LIVE Exhibition 2011

Fancy an inspirational day out?? Come and visit us at stand G94 at the Grand Designs Live Exhibition, held at Londons EXCEL from the 30th April to the 8th May. click here for tickets: http://www.granddesignslive.com/

We are offering FREE 20 minute Design Clinics where you can look through our portfolios and gather ideas, to book one of these please call 01279 730040. We will also have available to order lots of fabulous (and exclusive!) pieces of furniture and garden features from our Aralia Exteriors range! We hope to see you there :) x

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The Studio, Clipped Hedge Cottage, Dunmow Road, Hatfield Heath, Hertfordshire, CM22 7EE

Principal BALI Landscape Excellence Award Winners 2010!

On the 3^rd December 2010, Aralia Garden Design based in Hatfield Heath, were presented with the Principal BALI Landscape Excellence Award, for an innovative approach to a small garden project. The BALI Awards, which are organised by the British Association of Landscape Industries, are the most sought after awards in the Industry and recognise designers and landscapers who demonstrate exceptionally high standards of professionalism and skill in their industry. It is the only design award BALI issues and is regarded as Highly Prestigious - We are overjoyed to say the least!

 

 From the Left: Patricia Fox MSGD - Aralia Garden Design, Paul Edwards (Client), Phillip Holmes (Holmes & Davey Landscape Contractors)

We entered Maltese Road a beautiful garden in Chelmsford where we were really able to push the boundaries, and the end result looked spectacular! Our client Paul Edwards came to Aralia with the vision of a calm, tranquil space, which had a sense of seclusion where he can relax whilst surrounded by lush planting. It had to be in keeping with his Victorian home, and had to feel light and airy and in no way claustrophobic. With not the largest of gardens to work with, and so many fabulous ideas to include, it wasn’t plain sailing! The site itself was so tight that design elements had to be built bespoke as standard items would not work in the space available. We Included bespoke items such as pergolas, a curved archway, a semi-circular slate & granite bench, and an impressive 20 panel Ornamental Green Wall disguising what would have been the back of an unsightly garage wall. Careful layering of plants helped us achieve a spacious and tranquil feel. The result is a unique, compact garden with a deceptively spacious feel and one that met every demand from our exacting client. We are simply thrilled to have won this award – what a fantastic end to 2010!!

 

Maltese Road - Chelmsford, Essex:

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The Studio, Clipped Hedge Cottage, Dunmow Road, Hatfield Heath, Hertfordshire, CM22 7EE

BALI Worldskills UK Landscape Gardening Competition 2010

What a fantastic year we've had, a Silver at Chelsea, an award for the BALI Landscape Design Excellence Award (runners up to Andy Sturgeon no less) and we've just found out this morning that we've been chosen as the designer for the 2010/2011 WorldSkills UK Landscape Gardening competition organised by BALI , in Association with UK Skills. Andy Sturgeon was the designer for this years WorldSkills UK competition, so we are thrilled to yet again be following in his footsteps. What an exciting end to the year, we are really looking forward to working on this with BALI.

The competetion is run for student landscape gardeners, it is designed to test their abilities as a landscape gardener. They will be competing live at Malvern Spring Gardening Show, Gardening Scotland and Malvern Autumn Show.

Competition Information:
Worldskills UK are a set of dynamic skills competitions for both young people and adults designed by industry experts. They run every year in over 70 skills across the UK. Last year, over 4,000 people registered to compete in a WorldSkills UK Competition.

The Landscape Gardening Competition attracts, on average, 50 competitors from Colleges and industry. Competing in regional heats; those scoring highest are invited to complete in a National Final.

The 2010 regional heat venues are; Malvern Spring Gardening Show and Gardening Scotland. Malvern Autumn Show will host the National Final. These venues attract over 180,000 visitors, providing an excellent publicity platform to showcase industry skills optimising PR.

All National finalists across the UK may then be considered for inclusion in WorldSkills Team UK. Team UK compete in the biennial International Worldskills competition against 50 other countries/regions. This year at WorldSkills Calgary 2009, the Landscape Gardening team won a medallion for excellence and secured 7th position.

The next International Worldskills competition will be held in London 2011. 2010 is the last year people can enter to be in with a chance of competing with WorldSkills Team UK in front of a home crowd.


(Above images are of the garden in Allen's Green Sawbridgeworth that we were awarded the BALI Landscape Design Excellence Award)To find out more please visit http://www.bali.org.uk/uk_skills/introduction

Edible Park / Landscapes Campaign

I've been trying to rack my brains to work out how best to involve local councils into incorporating Edible Plants into local parks etc, and just came across this fantastic web site http://www.capitalgrowth.org/ . They already have £150k to give away in grants to londoners for unused land etc (mostly gone already I think?) but they are campaigning for further funds. Think this is excellent news and will check it out further.

Link: http://www.aralia.org.uk