Hamptons Mediterranean Backyard – RHS Chelsea 2023

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

Following the success at Chelsea Flower Present in Might 2022, main property agent Hamptons is renewing its partnership with Backyard Membership London, sponsoring a brand new Sanctuary Backyard subsequent 12 months.
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 usually Mediterranean palette of crops and heat, pure supplies is utilised to form a peaceable area, filled with texture and smells, which may simply be imagined as half of a bigger backyard within the Tuscan countryside or as an outside 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 associates collect to share meals and one another’s firm is a basic factor of the Italian life-style, however as vital is the connection between individuals and nature which could be skilled in a nicely designed backyard.

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

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

A easy, architectural water function is an instance of how rainwater could be harvested and saved within the backyard in a manner that gives a number of advantages: mitigating the impression on the drainage system; offering an aesthetically pleasing function to the backyard which could be loved by individuals 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 engaging design to the ‘outside rooms’ of the South of England as a lot as those in Italy.

The planting listing contains a big selection of Mediterranean crops, most of which hardy and drought-tolerant, showcasing completely different kinds 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.