Out of the entire Chelsea experience this small, informal Artisan garden, designed by Francesca and Emma of Frogheath Landscapes, spoke most eloquently to Grey Granite. This was one of several exhibits to acknowledge this the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1.
This was beautiful garden, the most simplistic message Grey Granite took from it was DO NOT allow plastic pots any where near the garden.
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| The garden is based on the restoration of the abandoned bottle kiln at Farnham Pottery, from which, in 1914 'the potters swapped their tools for guns and came back alive'. |
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| The replica bottle shaped kiln |
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| The cottage style planting is dense and informal and includes wildlife friendly areas |
The garden contrasts the potters' pre-war life with that in the trenches. The tranquil pastel colours of the plants contrast with the fiery red of the shards of pots and tiles used in the path linking the two zones, the pottery and the trenches. These are represented by a wall of sandbags littered with shell cases contrasts with the range of old tools and pots in the building at the back of the garden.
Grey Granite's glassblower paternal Grandfather, and a ploughman maternal uncle both fought in this unimaginable conflict and were fortunate to survive. During childhood WW1 was known as 'Grandad's War' to distinguish it from the Second World War in which both parents and a clutch of uncle's had served.
Nice work
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