Lanyon Bowdler Collect Trophy for Best Outdoor Garden at Shrewsbury Flower Show
There were whoops of joy at Headway Shropshire on Oxon Business Park and at all the Lanyon Bowdler offices, when it was announced that the All-Inclusive Garden, entered into the 123rd Shrewsbury Flower Show, had won the Mike Hough Memorial Trophy for the Best Outdoor Garden, together with one of the Shropshire Horticultural Society’s Gold Medals.
The garden, designed by award winning garden designer Mike Russell, was the product of months of hard work by clients and staff at Headway Shropshire and members of staff at Lanyon Bowdler. Plus it featured an array of stunning work, much of it donated by local crafts people.
Designed to be a place of well being, the garden was a vibrant, sustainable and spiritual place, a sensory allotment garden for everyone, to both grow food to eat or just relax, all within a small space.
The garden was created to support and represent the work of local charity - Headway Shropshire. Its centre at Oxon Business Park offers clients suffering from brain and head injuries the opportunity to engage in therapeutic activities, such as gardening, cooking and creative art. This project gave the clients an opportunity to be involved in the creation of the show piece and they produced fabulous artwork, vines of copper leaves and pretty butterflies.
After receiving the trophy, managing partner David Battisby said “this has been a tremendous project which has involved so many people. I have been overwhelmed by the generosity of local suppliers and crafts people – many having either given or leant their products.
“This is a first for Lanyon Bowdler and we hope to be back next year to defend our trophy.”
A blog http://headwayshowgarden.wordpress.com/, was created to share the experience and to thank all those involved.
The winning garden that featured at the 2010 Shrewsbury Flower Show