Garden Progress...

It has been the wettest April since records began, so not the sort of weather we have had the last two years when building the show gardens at Jacksons, In previous years we’ve been slapping on the sunscreen, instead we’ve been waddling in wet weather gear and wellies!, Not at all helpful when building and digging to a schedule. However progress has been made and the two new gardens are looking fantastic. Alison’s Natural Reflections is all but there and Kari’s Within the Weave is romping up behind, so as long we don’t have any disasters in this last week leading up to the opening we should (fingers crossed) be finished in time. Hope those aren’t famous last words! The gardens will open to public on Saturday 19th May and from then on they will be open during Jacksons usual opening hours. The five gardens from previous years are all having face lifts, with new planting, paving cleaned up and fresh coats of paint, so everything should be looking tip top by the end of the week. I took some pics, on a rare day when the sun actually shone, of both the gardens in the early stages of their development. They’ve moved on a lot since these were taken, but I’m not going to show you those as we need to keep some mystery…

Jacksons Show gardens competition news

I’m happy to say we’ve managed after a lot of mulling over, lip chewing and difficult deliberating, to choose the two winning designs for this year’s show gardens.

Although I won’t be making an announcement on who the winners are just yet – last year I emailed everyone individually to let them know what was happening and give them feedback on their design. This does take quite a lot of time, as there are a lot of you, but I think it’s a much nicer way of doing this than just saying so and so has won!

So please bear with me as I start that process and hopefully by Monday I will be making the announcement, via twitter, the show gardens blog and on the web site.

Deadline for Jacksons show gardens competition

It was deadline day for the third annual Jacksons show gardens design competition yesterday the 20^th March. So the last week has seen a flurry of communications from garden designers calling and emailing me with last minute queries and some panics! We now have a large and exciting looking pile of designs to look through throughout the next few days and hope to make an announcement by the end of the week – or early next week if it gets tricky! 

Thanks very much to everyone who has entered and put all that effort and worry into coming up with their designs. Louise

The New Jacksons Fencing Show Garden Blog

Welcome to the new Jacksons Show Gardens blog.  Over the coming weeks as we approach the deadline for the Show Gardens design competition we will be posting news and information on how things are proceeding.

News of the competition winners will be posted here and on the Jacksons Fencing website