The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
A serene garden in only two colours, green and white, by Tom Stuart-Smith has won the best in show award at Chelsea Flower show.
Cotswold Chatterblog (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
[ June 25, 2008; 9:30 am to 5:30 pm. ] Wednesday 25th June Full day visit. Meet at Ebrington Village Hall 9.30 am Broughton Grange Gardens are an impressive 25 acres of garden and light woodland in an attractive Oxfordshire setting. The centrepiece is a large terraced walled garden created by Tom Stuart-Smith in 2001. Broughton Castle nearby is "about the most beautiful castle in all...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
Garden trusts, English Heritage for the local landscape, are thriving, says Anna TyzackThe Dorset Garden Trust's Open Day, in the new topiary gardens of a grade II-listed country house, promises to be a grand day out. There will be plant stalls, craft tents and cream teas. In the Palladian library, overlooking the deer park, Penelope Hobhouse and Tom Stuart-Smith will be giving lectures....
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
... workshop at Trentham, Staffordshire (10am-12.30pm) will discuss the vision of designers Tom Stuart-Smith and Piet Oudolf plus best seasonal plants and maintenance tips. Entry £20, pre-booking essential (01782 646646).12 Come to a "taster day" at Garden Design School, Painshill Park, Cobham, Surrey and find out what it is like to train as a garden designer. Speak to RHS designers and...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
Cool, green and restrained: the winning displays at Chelsea are based on subtle foliage plantings. Sarah Raven takes her pickThere are some extraordinarily beautiful gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show this year and a common theme of discretion, tact and an almost Chanel-like simplicity and sophistication. Discipline, confidence and calm are all to the fore.Confident: (clockwise from left) Tom Stuart-Smith;...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
For a garden designer Chelsea is the equivalent of Becher's Brook, the Cresta Run, or sailing the Atlantic. Making a show garden is the worst and most demanding endurance test imaginable. "Are you doing Chelsea?" people ask when they hear I design gardens. "Never," I say.Of course it is flattering to be invited to participate in the best flower show in the world, but the challenge is terrific. Tom...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
... The historical obsessions of previous Chelsea show gardens have disappeared almost without trace.Tom Stuart-Smith and the Laurent-Perrier Garden (MA20) will always draw the crowds. Stuart-Smith is the designer of the moment because his work represents a fusion of traditional English herbaceous design, using large numbers of different plants, with the simplicity and drift-forming...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
Garden designed by Tom Stuart-Smith for Laurent-Perrier champagne wins Best Show Garden title
ROB McGIBBON - ALONG THE WAY . . . (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
... for me this year was the hornbeam trees in the Best In Show Laurent Perrier garden designed by Tom Stuart-Smith. I want some hornbeams now. I also want a stash of that pink bubbly his sponsors were splashing around after he won. Yes, a glass of pink under my very own hornbeam, that'll do. I had a fleeting chat with the maestro himself - Alan Titchmarsh. It is hilarious watching the...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
... texture very much to the fore. A good example of this is the Laurent-Perrier garden, designed by Tom Stuart-Smith, with its cloud-pruned hornbeams and drifts of Asarum europaeum and other foliage plants. Flamboyance seems suddenly out of fashion, even vulgar. Allied to this is the old theme of sustainability and natural goodness, exemplified this year by Daylesford Organic's Summer...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
The Laurent-Perrier gardenDesigned by Tom Stuart-Smith, the Laurent-Perrier garden is one of elegant understatement, with green and white almost the only colours
IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
... La Titchmarsh all that closely yesterday, but I went back to the photos I took, and my god! Forget Tom Stuart-Smith's green garden - what about Titchmarsh's sidies? The style statement! What kind of look is he going for, do you think? Little razored flicks of hair that are more than - possibly resulting in a new genre of "rockabilly gardening". The whole image verges on something...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Judges awarded the Laurent-Perrier Garden designed by Tom Stuart-Smith a gold medal and the prestigious title of best in show.The garden is described as "a contemplative space with a dreamy, slightly surreal character" and features a grove of hornbeams pruned into "rounded clouds".A number of zinc tanks appearing to overflow are dotted throughout the garden, with planting based around...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Judges awarded the Laurent-Perrier Garden designed by Tom Stuart-Smith a gold medal and the prestigious title of best in show.The garden is described as "a contemplative space with a dreamy, slightly surreal character" and features a grove of hornbeams pruned into "rounded clouds".A number of zinc tanks appearing to overflow are dotted throughout the garden, with planting based around...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Peter Payne's three-hundred-and-sixty degree images illustrate perfectly the stunning gardens on show at this year's Chelsea Flower Show.The Laurent-Perrier Garden brought Tom Stuart-Smith his third best in show and his sixth gold medal at Chelsea. His scheme has a daringly minimalist colour scheme, 30-year-old hornbeams clipped in the shape of clouds and brimming-over zinc water tanks....
