Hamptons Mediterranean Backyard – RHS Chelsea 2023

The Hamptons Mediterranean Backyard is an intimate, modern outside dwelling house that encourages sustainable planting and dwelling, leading to a backyard design that promotes connection to nature while offering the proper room to entertain.

Following the success at Chelsea Flower Present in Could 2022, leading estate agent Hamptons is renewing its partnership with Backyard Membership London, sponsoring a brand new Sanctuary Backyard subsequent yr.
First time designer Filippo Dester is drawing inspiration from the Italian landscapes and structure he grew up seeing and from his expertise working as a backyard designer within the UK to design a backyard that mixes each influences.

The sometimes Mediterranean palette of crops and heat, pure supplies is utilised to form a peaceable house, stuffed with texture and smells, which may simply be imagined as half of a bigger backyard within the Tuscan countryside or as an out of doors entertaining space in an city setting within the south of England.
Connection is a central theme of the backyard: a big desk the place household and pals collect to share meals and one another’s firm is a elementary aspect of the Italian life-style, however as necessary is the connection between folks and nature which might be skilled in a properly designed backyard.

Wealthy in delicate colors and the soothing fragrance of fragrant herbs, the backyard can also be planted with a number of fruit bushes and greens which might be foraged by the seasons.

Consideration to sustainability can also be key and was thought-about at every stage of the design course of: the usage of energy-expensive and pollutant supplies is minimised with a choice for recycled and sustainable ones, and the applied sciences chosen to construct the backyard be sure that every aspect can be simply re-used or recycled.

A easy, architectural water characteristic is an instance of how rainwater might be harvested and stored within the backyard in a manner that gives a number of advantages: mitigating the influence on the drainage system; offering an aesthetically pleasing characteristic to the backyard which might be loved by folks and wildlife alike; and functioning as a water reservoir for the backyard irrigation when wanted.

This design goals to showcase how a Mediterranean impressed backyard can supply a compelling alternative each for sustainable landscaping and enticing design to the ‘outside rooms’ of the South of England as a lot as those in Italy.

The planting checklist contains a wide array of Mediterranean crops, most of which hardy and drought-tolerant, showcasing completely different types of planting, together with densely planted decorative borders are dotted by clouds of sub-shrubs typical of the ‘Macchia’, a gravel backyard with sculptural succulents, and productive borders wealthy with edibles, foraging herbs and roots.