New thinking behind garden design: Garden designers are seeing opportunities for fewer limits and more imagination, says Matthew Appleby

摘要

Anew avant garde is entering garden design after several rather unexciting years. The Channel Five programme / Own Britain's Best Home and Garden - featuring Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and judges, including garden writer and founder of Thinkin-Gardens Anne Wareham - criticised garden design, which was a first forTV. Llewelyn-Bowen, speaking when launching a range of garden furniture at Glee 2008, said the current financial downturn means homeowners will not be moving house and therefore are looking to personalise their homes rather than go for the bland magnolia decor promoted by property TV shows as the best way to sell your house quickly. He said the everyman look was obsolete if you could not sell your house because there were no buyers around. Nowis the time to show your own, individual tastes in your house and garden.