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Find out more about the inspiration behind Sue Kent’s Beautiful Border
Sue Kent is an award-winning garden designer, TV presenter and RHS disability ambassador. You’ll be able to see her ‘My Escape’ Beautiful Border at BBC Gardeners’ World Live 2023.
She first hit our screen in June 2020 as an recreational gardener when she featured on BBC Gardeners ’ World , talking about the beautiful garden she has created at home in Swansea over the last 30 years . Sue ’s upper body limb impairment makes some horticulture tasks challenging and she talk about adaptations she has made to make the most of her garden , like using her foot for weeding and planting . Sue ’s plate television proved such a hit that she is now a regular presenter on BBC Gardeners ’ worldly concern .
Sue has design a headline Beautiful Border for BBC Gardeners ’ World Live 2023 . Unique to BBC Gardeners ’ Word Live , Beautiful Borders are thickset 9m2spaces , mob with inventive blueprint features , planting and materials , and leave inspiration for small gardens and intriguing space .
Sue Kent ’s Beautiful Border , In the garden pink , will be at BBC Gardeners ’ World Live at the Birmingham NEC from 15th-18thJune 2023 .
You ’ll find a bumper crop of twelve inspiring Beautiful Borders at the Autumn Fair this year , all themed ‘ My Garden Escape ’
Sue , the theme for this year ’s Beautiful Borders at BBC Gardeners ’ World Live isMy Garden Escape . Your design pays tribute to three of your great loves : colour , scent and house painting . Can you tell us more about it and about the ways that , for you , a garden is a oasis to escape to ?
Pink is my favourite colour , scented bloom are my joy , and paint bloom is my escape . My Border will encapsulate all three of these things with promising pink flower colour fuse to white pinko and many scented blooms . My Border will let in glass art and an area for an creative person to paint . I go for to admit roses , perennials and annuals , possibly some Gunter Wilhelm Grass .
A flower garden is a natural endowment for the good sense and becoming cognisant of scent , colour , texture and , in some type , taste of a flora , together with the sound and sight of insect aliveness that plants attract demands the care and releases the mind . I like to pick flush heads to study and paint in detail . By doing this , I learn more of what their item-by-item beauty can volunteer to a planting scheme . This creative process is gripping and gripping , and before I have it away it , the stresses of mundane life have disappeared .
Visitors to BBC Gardeners ’ World Live descend to the show with a keen eye for ideas and inspiration . Which elements of yourGarden EscapeBorder do you think might draw in visitors ’ aid for their garden at home ?
Colour affects our energies and emotions . By keeping to one colour in all its shade , I am make a infinite for visitors to absorb and appraise how that colour defecate them experience . Pink always make me very felicitous so if they ’re search for pink plants for a sundry border , my Border will be packed full of inspiring flower form , vividness and olfactory property .
The Beautiful Borders competition is a great chance to gain first - deal experience of building a small show garden . What advice can you give any budding first - time designers out there that might be thinking of pass on it a go next year ?
My advice is to be pliable on your plant life choices with option available so that you may get the best works in on the sidereal day . programme on graph paper and make a survey or painting for how you want it to look . If you ’ve got the space , mock it up , and criterion and measure again to get the proportions right . Before engraft the border , put your glasses on and pimp your plants ! Remember to include transportation and break up costs in your budget . For anyone discriminating to adjudicate designing a Beautiful Border , come and talk to me . I ’ll be on my Border at various time every day during the show and will be doing a daily talk of the town on the Let ’s babble out Plants present about my Border design and brainchild .
You’rea keen veg grower with a strong history of veg growing in your family . What ’s the appeal of growing your own food and what ’s on the menu for the coming season ?
I ’m an organic grower . I desire my food free from pesticides and I want to know how it ’s been develop . I also have it off to eat veggie and the taste of invigorated homegrown vegetables is 2nd to none . As well as the common suspect this year , I ’m growing a plenty of beans to dry so that I will have my own pulsation through the winter calendar month . I ’m also trying hibiscus so that I can make my own hibiscus tea leaf .
As a passionate proponent for inclusion and handiness in the gardening world , what are some of the change that you would you like to see in the coming years to broaden access to gardening to people living with disabilities ?
I am still explore this subject with the RHS but some of my initial thought are that I opine there should be more journalism opportunity for people with disabilities in the garden publications to write about horticulture . What suits them can often make gardening light for others . At the garden shows , I ’d wish to see a quiet time limit aside for people with physical impairment , multitude with autism who do n’t like gang , and importantly , for wheelchair users , so they can get a serious scene of the garden . Also train volunteers to accompany hoi polloi with visual disability and cater descriptive stimulation where necessary and the opportunity to touch the showing . On a personal level , I would like to work with pecker manufacturers to better designs of some of their tools and to create some unexampled ones .
Find out more about Sue Kent here : www.suekent.com
New twelvemonth , novel garden , fresh trends !
We ’re through the garden gate into 2023 , with a server of horticulture style blooming throughout the country . Fromhouse plantsreaching dizzying heights of popularity , to the colour of the year ‘ Viva Magenta’,read on for our full inclination of drift .
To get up close and personal with fresh garden inspiration , new plant , the latest horticulture kit and more , bring together us in 2023 .
Colour of the Year 2023
Hand - pick by Pantone , the color of the year has been name as ‘ Viva Magenta .
Pantone describe the colour as‘brave and fearless , and a pulse colour whose ebullience promote a joyous and affirmative solemnisation , writing a new narrative . ’
Discover a world of coloring and smell in the stunningFloral Marquee , bursting with award - winning nurseries and presentation .
Sustainable gardening
Whilst your garden might seem to already be very gullible , it can always be greener !
Discover ways you may make gardening more sustainable , like upcycling plebeian items to make stylish features . What was a pallet , hessian bag , bits of pipe , and tin cans , could become a planter , grow bags , water feature of speech , and wildlife home ground .
Be inspired by the BBC Gardeners ’ World Magazine editorial team as they ’re joined by expert to give top and advice .
Grow your own food
Looking to go from soil to supper this year ? Get superb advice from the National Allotment Society at the event .
Peat-free gardening
Learn about the latest peat - free compost from exhibitors who can offer aspect - to - face advice .
Indoor gardening
Foliage does n’t just go out of doors – bring nature indoors and be inspired by the Houseplant Hub .
Mindful gardening
Beautiful Borders returns with this year ’s theme ‘ My Garden Escape ’ to give you distance savvy ideas .
Gardening on a budget
Discover different ways you could let your garden bloom under a tighter budget , with advice from expert gardener .
Fermented foods
Visit the BBC Good Food Summer Show ( with free entranceway with your tag ! ) and discover the latest bon vivant trend .
Feeling inspire ? Find out what else is happening at BBC Gardeners ’ World be this June !
