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 The Calm at the Centre

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 [RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025](https://gardensdb.com/shows/rhs-flower-show-wentworth-woodhouse-2025) - Long Borders

The Calm at the Centre
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 Border

This border uses empty space as a focal point, challenging the idea of what the eye is - or should be - drawn to in a garden. Two dynamic plantings, both with strong palettes of purples, reds, copper and steely blue, surround a serene, clear centre. A pair of decorative steel water tanks, planted with aquatic species, ground the design and create the negative focal space between, while structural plants such as [***Beschorneria yucciodes***](https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/27870/beschorneria-yuccoides/details) (yucca-leaved Beschorneria) and [***Euphorbia rigida***](https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/7087/euphorbia-rigida/details) (upright myrtle spurge) provide strong architectural form, which softens towards the border's edge. Pops of colour from the likes of [***Dianthus cruentus***](https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/21600/dianthus-cruentus/details) (blood pink) and [***Sanguisorba* 'Cangshan Cranberry'**](https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/265981/sanguisorba-cangshan-cranberry/details) (burnet) are evocative of the Pointillist style and add vim and vigour.

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 [RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025](https://gardensdb.com/shows/rhs-flower-show-wentworth-woodhouse-2025)

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 Silver Gilt Medal

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Skye Bond

Designer

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The Chagford Inn

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