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Royal Horticultural Show, Chelsea 2014, SILVER GILT award winning Garden of Possibility

This week is the RHS Chelsea Flower show, world reknown and highly prestigious, I got to talk to one of the new comers Matthew Childs, who did a garden for Brewin Dolphin- an investment managing firm. He's just won the Silver Gilt and had a visit too from Benedict Cumberbatch!
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The Silver Gilt award winning Garden of Possibility
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Matthew Childs
Matthew has already won awards on RHS Hampton and is quite a distinguished horticulturalist, but his story is unique in that he started his career in Advertising. 
Life changing events befell him in the attacks on London on 7/7 and he reassessed his life and decided to develop his horticultural dreams, and it clearly seems to be the path he was destined for.
 
Childs was challenged to express Brewin Dolphin’s values through the design of the garden and so is designed around the theme of nurturing and preserving wealth. 
Of his design he says; “The most effective gardens tell a story. Life is a roller coaster. You have ups and downs, but there is always a new possibility around the corner and potential to nurture for the future. This is what I wanted to put into the garden.”

Although the garden looks beautiful in it's finished form, it's been filmed with timelapse by Construct Film UK. Click here to see the magic come together.. Construct film never cease to amaze me with their time lapse, they can make a construction site, seem so watchable, magical and interesting.
Congratulations Matthew!
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