Top garden designer to capture the moment at Ellerslie

Pebbles inscribed with Christchurch people’s memories and messages will feature in an Ellerslie International Flower Show garden by one of the world’s top designers.

Pebbles inscribed with Christchurch people’s memories and messages will feature in an Ellerslie International Flower Show garden by one of the world’s top designers.

Paul Hervey-Brookes is a noted English garden and landscape designer who has won numerous awards, including gold medals at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show and Gardening World Cup in 2013.

His garden for Ellerslie International Flower Show this February explores the idea of shared moments.

“The inspiration for the garden comes from the idea of unique moments in life that we either experience individually or with friends or family,” says Paul Hervey-Brookes.

“If you think of the memories that you can easily recall they are moments, either joyous or not, that have strong emotions around them. This is the core inspiration for the garden, a series of these moments dropped across a landscape.”

The design is based on the ripples from a drop of water and features three discs planted with a mixture of New Zealand native perennials and shrubs, with a single central tree surrounded by the engraved pebbles.

Mr Hervey-Brooke’s The Moment with Yealands Family Wines garden is one of a record 16 major gardens at this year’s Ellerslie International Flower Show.

Mr Hervey-Brookes is collaborating on the garden with Yealands Family wines as they share similar environmental values and goals.

Botanically trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Mr Hervey-Brookes now creates gardens in the United Kingdom and internationally.

Following Ellerslie, he is creating a Main Avenue Garden at RHS Chelsea and launching a new series of his popular gardening gifts range for British retailer Marks & Spencer.