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My first Chelsea and I get gold, it doesn't get much better
than this! I'm so proud of what we have achieved. I hope the high profile medal
inspires more people to come to Yorkshire to see for themselves the landscape
that brought gold to the garden.
These
are the words (as quoted by Martin Wainwright in the Guardian’s Northerner
Blog) of Tracy Foster, the Leeds garden designer , who worked closely with the
Parsonage while she was creating her gold-winning entry for this year’s Chelsea
Flower Show. It also collected the People's Garden award.
The
materials for the Brontë Garden, which has had a non-stop stream of admirers
since the Show opened, were sourced as far as possible from the area around
Haworth, including boulders from Dove Stones Moor. Those Chelsea admirers who
have actually visited Yorkshire and walked up to Top Withens will surely have recognized the little bridge of slabs across the beck
near the Brontë Falls.
And
how many of those admirers know that the wonderful Yorkshire landscape which
inspired the garden is now under threat from giant turbines, which will be
visible for miles across the moors? Turbines can be beautiful, I hear some of
their defenders claim, a monster-sized equivalent of windmills in the Netherlands.
In
which case, we can no doubt look forward to next year’s Yorkshire entries for Chelsea
which incorporate them looming in the background...