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Gold buzz at Chelsea for landscape architects

25th May 2007

Landscape architects Robert Myers Associates have won Gold at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show for the second year running.

This year’s successful scheme was a show garden for the grocer’s Fortnum and Mason to celebrate their tercentenary.

‘We took the beehives which Fortnum’s had made for the Piccadilly, London, store to generate their own urban honey as the focal point and selected plants and trees like lime and hornbeam that the bees would enjoy’ said Derek Glashan of Robert Myers Associates. ‘The judges also seemed to like what they called some of the witty details, such as the wicker fence which we made out of lids from Fortnum’s hampers’.

‘Fortnums are very happy with the way the garden promotes their brand’.

RMA won Gold last year for a garden created for the Campagna region of Italy.

Robert Myers Associates is a registered practice of the Landscape Institute, the chartered body in the UK for landscape architects.

Current or recently completed RMA projects include a fifty year landscape masterplan for The Back, Cambridge, commissioned by the university’s colleges, and work on East Port Park, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. RMA was highly commended for its design of Torrington Square, London, in the 2006 Landscape Institute Awards.

Source: Landscape Institute

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