Hat Trick for Sarah with Third Chelsea win

Award-winning Oxfordshire garden designer, Sarah Naybour, has done it again with her third show stand at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. She has just been awarded her third Five Star Award.

2015 is the third consecutive year that Sarah Naybour has designed for David Harber's internationally renowned sculptures and sundials at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and her third win of the prestigious 5 star awards in 2013 and 2014, the highest award for show stands.

The award-winning show stand designed by Sarah Naybour at the the RHS Flower Show 2015.

This year, Sarah designed David Harber a woodland glade, (stand MA6 on Main Street) right in the bustling heart of the show, an exquisite setting for David's sculptures and sundials.

Sarah said: "I am delighted and proud to have achieved yet another 5 Star award. Third time at Chelsea and many more ahead I hope." 

Sarah with her third award at this year's Chelsea Flower Show

This week's win is the culmination to a whole year of planning for Chelsea. Sarah starts thinking about her designs at the preceding Chelsea, and no doubt her head is already buzzing with ideas for 2016.

For 2015 award-winning stand Sarah has made much use of light and natural planting. Dappled light filters through the trees to play softly on the reflective surfaces of David's work, featuring several pieces specially designed for the show.

Sarah opted for the subtle bronze shades on the trunks of Betula Edinburgh, rather than the Jacquemonti birch, as these complement the Bronze used in several of David's sculptures. The trees are underplanted in a luscious but simple palette of green, white and blue with shrubs, ferns, Hosta, Digitalis, Dutch Iris and Camassia.

The garden is hedged with partial openings at the sides and has been created to induce a sense of discovery and exploration, drawing visitors in with glimpses of sculptures through the branches and the calming sound of running water. At each turn there is another magnificent piece from David's collection, with the Filium Orb a central focus with its beguiling swirling mist of vine-like lattice work in distressed and textured metal and lustrous gold interior, revealed for the first time at Chelsea. In the corner of the stand, a timber and shingle-roofed shelter has come in handy to offer much needed protection from the occasional deluge.

Designing for Chelsea is a very special experience for Sarah, she said: "The stand is on Main Avenue, the busiest thoroughfare in what is the garden world's premiere showcase. Opposite all the biggest - and most expensive - show gardens. There is a lot to live up to. It is hugely competitive to get a space, and you know you have to aim for perfection.

"This is what makes the win so very special. And to do it three times in a row has been a fantastic honour and accolade. Although, Chelsea is very much about teamwork, and everyone pitches in for a solide two weeks of hard graft to produce one week of excellence."

Sarah creates elegant, timeless country and contemporary urban garden spaces in Oxfordshire and London. With a fine art background, her understanding of architecture and love of good design is a hallmark of her work. Sarah is available for private and commercial commissions for gardens to enhance residential property and developments. For more information please seewww.sarahnaybour.co.ukphone 01865 790678 or email sarah@sarahnaybour.co.uk

For more information on Sarah Naybour garden design see www.sarahnaybour.co.uk

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For more photographs, information on planting, sculptures and sundials on show, or to an arrange interview with Sarah, please contact

Sarah Airey

Emailsarah.airey@thebuzzworks.co.uk

Telephone. 07855 086447

Sarah Naybour

Sarah Naybour was awarded Britain's Student Designer of the Year by the Society of Garden Designerson graduation andhas designed for David Harber's stand at the RHS Flower Show since 2013, winning 5 star awards in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

She is based in Oxfordshire and specialises in designing elegant contemporary gardens for private and corporate clients in the county as well as London and the Cotswolds.

She studied fine art at Winchester at Canterbury and established her own mosaic business in Hong Kong before garden design.

David Harber

David Harber has been exhibiting his award winning sculptures and sundials at RHS Chelsea Flower Show for over 20 years.www.davidharber.com