The Clints and Grykes Garden

This garden is a conceptual abstraction of a natural limestone pavement where the shapes of grykes (fissures) and clints (slabs) are formed from linear blocks through which sinuous shapes are cut.

The flat, pale grey surface of the pavement hides its planting until you stand directly over it, a metaphor for how often the most beautiful things in life are what we fit between the cracks.

The rare habitats of British limestone pavements were heavily quarried for garden rockeries until more recent protective measures banned this practice. These gardens rarely mimicked the natural beauty of the stone in its original setting where the clints and grykes formed a ‘naturally ordered’ look that this show garden reflects with abstract lines and curves. The fissures are filled with lush planting that mimic the specialised plant species found in these unique environments.

The garden won a Silver Gilt medal from the RHS.