Thomas Hoblyn Garden Design Limited

Chelsea Flower Show 2009 - Silver Medal

Following his Gold in the Urban Garden category at Chelsea in 2008 and inspired by a trip to the marshlands of North Carolina to search for the Venus Flytrap, Tom's garden for Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust highlights the uncertainty of climate, both environmental and economic. The garden features some of the largest trees to be seen this year at Chelsea, together with a sculptural centrepiece, "Waves of Change", dominated by a nude female figure, "The Guardian of the Environment".

Tom's build up to the show can be seen by visiting his blog »

Chelsea Flower Show 2008 - Gold Medal

We are absolutely delighted to have been awarded Gold for our first ever Chelsea Flower Show. Our sponsors, Foreign and Colonial Investment Trust, wanted a garden to celebrate their 140th anniversary inspiring a design which also commemorated the 140th anniversary of the death of composer Rossini who likened his orchestral scoring to 'Tempests in Teapots'.

Origin of plant names

Tom has contributed to this witty book in the section about the origin of plant names: The Reverend Guppy's Aquarium: Encounters with Heroes of the English Language, from the Earl of Sandwich to Joseph P. Frisbie by Philip Dodd. Recently published and now available from Amazon.

Homebase: Garden of Reflections - Gold Medal

We are so thrilled to receive our second gold at Hampton Court Flower Show this year. We were sponsored by Homebase who gave us a very open brief aslong as it had an essence of outdoor living - I had secretly been longing to use my favourite Renaissance garden: Villa Lante for years, and this was the perfect opportunity. Scotscape built the show garden, and despite the foul weather, attained a level of perfection second to none.

For further pictures, look at our portfolio.

Daily Telegraph

"Perhaps the most promising garden is the Homebase Garden of Reflections by Thomas Hoblyn, which makes clever reference to the great Renaissance garden, Villa Lante in Italy, where the cardinal's table has a water channel running down the middle for cooling wine. Here the water is channel fed by a formal pool, which is replenished by a cascade that falls down from the roof of a modern glass-walled conservatory. It all looks very sleek and chic; only natural rainwater is used, collected on the roof and then cleaned by filtration through reeds."

Listed at number 1 in the Daily Telegraph ‘Five must-see gardens at Hampton Court'

Volvo: The Artists Garden - Gold Medal

I am a great fan of artist Simon Carter and was thrilled to be able to design a show garden using his work as the main influence. Simon's bold use of colour is reflected in the planting with base colours of burnt orange, blackcurrant and lime green combined with fireworks of contrasting/complimentary colours.

Take for example the carpet of frothy lime green Alchemilla mollis and Prussian blue Aconitum carmichaelii rockets shooting into the sky. Or the sparklers of Allium albopilosum combined with Erigeron "Darkest of all"