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Cleve West helps Bupa innovate at Chelsea
Award-winning garden designer Cleve West is joining forces with Bupa to create the company's first show garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show (20 May -24 May 2008).
Cleve West - known to millions through his BBC TV appearances on programmes such as "Small Town Gardens" and "The Garden Makers" - has four RHS Gold medals to his name already.
His design for The Bupa Garden in 2008 will build upon the sensory gardens project which has been running in over 250 of Bupa's care homes for the past seven years.
"I'm delighted to be working with Bupa on this exciting project," said Cleve. "Gardens provide both stimulus and solace so their value in care homes for both residents and carers should not be underestimated."
Features of the design for Bupa's show garden are not only for aesthetic appeal
- Path and paving schemes embrace the requirements of people with dementia so there are no dead ends or uneven surfaces.
- Planting has been plotted at various heights and depths to ensure tactile elements are accessible to those in wheelchairs as well as those who are not.
- Water features provide soothing background noise.
- While the centrepiece of the garden is a bold spherical sculpture which symbolises the organisation's global values.
Cleve West has built a reputation for innovative garden landscapes. His creative use of space and harmonious planting puts him at the forefront of contemporary garden design in the UK.
He is a member of the Society of Garden Designers and has judged for the Royal Horticultural Society at the Hampton Court and Chelsea Flower shows. Cleve contributes regularly to TV and garden journals and writes a weekly column for The Independent Magazine.
Read more information about Bupa at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
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