Dezeen promotion: landscape designer Thomas Hoblyn has created a Secret Garden-inspired show garden featuring a hand-carved oak screen and walls textured with Armourcoat limestone render.
Hoblyn designed The Boodles Secret Garden for this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show, which took place in London from 21 to 26 September. It was installed by garden designers The Garden Builders.
The Boodles Secret Garden was presented at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
The designer's aim was to create an enclosed retreat in the spirit of the secret garden featured in the children's book by Frances Hodgson-Burnett.
To achieve this, he planned a series of walls to divide up the space using materials that have just as natural a texture as the planting areas.
Two walls finished in Armourcoat limestone render provide the backdrop to the garden The two walls that form the backdrop to the garden are hand-finished with Armourcoat's exterior polished plaster (PPX).
This limestone render is durable, low-maintenance, and offers the appearance of naturally honed stone.
The render offers the look of real plaster, but is durable enough for outdoors
"The garden has a very naturalistic feel about it, using a lot of natural products like timber in its raw form and hand-dressed stone," said Hoblyn, "and I really wanted to create a wall that had the same mood."
"Armourcoat PPX creates this lovely pitted effect, so it looks like it's been there for a long time, which is bang on for the a...