Marshall's Sustainability Garden by Scenic Blue

Marshalls

SILVER FLORA MEDAL

The Marshall's Sustainability Garden by Scenic Blue‘The Marshalls Sustainability Garden’ The Marshall's Sustainability Garden by Scenic Blue
Designer: Scenic Blue
Sponsor: Marshalls
Press contact: Michelle Thompson, Consumer PR Manager, Marshalls
Press contact tel: 01422 312901 or mobile 07899 001 985
Press contact email: michelle.thompson@marshalls.co.uk
Contractor: Scenic Blue
Exhibitor Address: Chris Harrop, Group Marketing Director, Marshalls, Lowfields Business Park, Premier Way, Elland, West Yorkshire, HX5 9HT.

‘The Marshalls Sustainability Garden’ is a sustainable domestic garden. It has been designed to appeal to the UK’s ‘conscience consumer’ – consumers who increasingly put sustainability, climate changeThe pyramids containing solar panels in the Marshall's Sustainability Garden and ethical and social values at the forefront of their purchasing decisions.

The garden includes some exciting green initiatives, such as solar panelled sculptures, which produce electricity, and recycling grey water from the house through reed bed filters. With fruit and vegetables, a wildlife habitat and recycled materials, ‘The Marshalls Sustainability Garden’ demonstrates that you can be green, grow your own and still have a great looking garden.

The pond for recycling grey waterA cedar studio building situated beneath an earth rubble mound creates a modern outdoor room, where an unusually shaped irrigation pool provides a strong focal point.

There is a strong recycling theme in the garden; gabions filled with stone rubble create walls for the mound and studio building and the boundary walls to the garden are recycled scaffolding boards.

A screened composting area featuring attractive bins for plant and domestic bio-degradable waste provides a further reminder of the garden’s commitment to environmentally responsible practice.

Growing on the mound are foxgloves and mixed wildflowers. There are reed beds filled with Phragmites australis and front garden borders with fruit, vegetables, flowers for cutting, herbs, ground cover and evergreen shrubs.

Scenic Blue exhibited at Chelsea at the previous two shows and has been awarded a Silver Medal and a Gold Medal. The company has been a landscape contractor since 1992 and has expanded across the UK through a network of franchised outlets. Its design service was founded in 2002 and has grown to be the largest in the UK, in conjunction with Marshalls. The team of garden designers have all had input into the design of ‘The Marshalls Sustainability Garden’.