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Southport Flower Show 2007

This year's Southport Flower Show theme was music. With that in mind, we set about designing and building our garden titled Rhythm and Blooms.

As our previous gardens in 2005 and 2006 were very informal in design, I wished to introduce some formality, symmetry and balance with this garden. I also wanted the planting to be more colourfull (as the title suggests) by incorporating more flowering perennials and less shrubs than in previous years.

The musical theme for the design was based around an orchestra's appearance, using dry stone walling to produce tiers to represent the deferent sections of an orchestra. The addition of a music stand on the stone patio showed the suggestion.