Brewin Dolphin : returns to RHS Chatsworth with Paul Hervey-Brookes

25 January 2018

Brewin Dolphin will return to RHS Chatsworth this year with a conceptual garden inspired by a past landscape of the Chatsworth Estate, designed by multi award-winning garden designer Paul Hervey-Brookes.

Exhibiting at the show for a second year, after its debut in 2017, the wealth management company will once again be showing in the FreeForm category, where it won the People's Choice Award with its inaugural garden last year.

Paul Hervey-Brookes, who was awarded Gold, Best in Show and Best Construction awards at RHS Chatsworth 2017, will create a conceptual garden echoing a 'lost' village that once stood in the shadow of Chatsworth House before being removed to make way for Capability Brown's famous landscape.

The Garden will encourage visitors to imagine the earlier landscape, featuring, at its centre, a contemporary timber pavilion that will pay homage to the lost village and is designed to reflect the internal void of buildings that existed before.

Elsewhere, immersed within the garden amongst dense borders of colourful planting, a collection of amorphic sculptures at different heights, will represent the silhouettes of people who have passed through the landscape.

Planting
Planting will also reference the indigenous landscape that would have existed before the village was removed, combining native ethnobotanical plants with decorative varieties that would have been introduced in later years. Herb expert Jekka McVicar will grow eight specialist varieties directly referencing medicinal plants and food crops that would have been grown when the foundations of Chatsworth House were laid.
Decorative plants will be planted randomly amongst them, to create a garden that blends into the existing landscape while fusing layers of time together. Key plants include Verbascum, Buxus and Reseda. Three different trees will also feature, including two Copper Beach trees reflecting the trees in the surrounding parkland.

Paul Hervey-Brookes said: 'My idea for The Brewin Dolphin Garden started to develop after a tour of Chatsworth House with the Duke of Devonshire. Standing on the roof looking across the magnificent grounds, his Grace pointed to an area where the footprint of a lost village could still be seen in dry weather. The idea of a void becoming a space and the question of how and when our heritage is preserved fascinated me. Designing the Brewin Dolphin Garden in the very place that the village once stood, has given me a unique opportunity to explore it further.'

Materials
Built by craftsman local to the Chatsworth Estate, the pavilion, which will echo the classic silhouette of a Tudor building with its familiar overhang, will be clad in 12,000 individual split Chestnut laths, a reference to the surrounding landscape as it would have been, when Sweet Chestnut trees were grown as a building and food crop.

Rupert Tyler, National Director at Brewin Dolphin said: 'We're delighted to be back at RHS Chatsworth for a second year and to be working with Paul Hervey-Brookes whose talent for creating beautiful and captivating gardens made such a huge impression on everyone that visited the show last year. The concept behind the Brewin Dolphin Garden is fascinating and it's particularly exciting to be creating something that has such a direct link to the Chatsworth Estate. Interestingly, the 'lost' vilIage dates back to the same moment in time that Brewin Dolphin was founded, in the 1700s, and the idea of taking values from the past and preserving them for the future perfectly reflects our own principles. I'm sure our clients and visitors to the show will be fascinated by the story and that they will enjoy seeing it bought to life in such a spectacular display.'
The Brewin Dolphin Garden at RHS Chatsworth marks a seven-year relationship with the RHS including five successful years at RHS Chelsea and its inaugural garden at RHS Chatsworth in 2017.

PRESS INFORMATION
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NOTES TO EDITORS

About Brewin Dolphin
Brewin Dolphin is a UK FTSE 250 leading provider of discretionary wealth management. With £40.1* billion in funds under management, it offers award-winning personalised wealth management services that meet the varied needs of over 80,000 account holders, including individuals, charities and pension funds.

We give clients security and wellbeing by helping them to protect and grow their wealth, in order to enrich their lives by achieving their goals and aspirations. Our services range from bespoke, discretionary investment management to retirement planning and tax-efficient investing. Our focus on discretionary investment management has led to significant growth in client funds and we now manage £33.8* billion on a discretionary basis. The value of investments and any income from them can fall, and you may get back less than invested.

In line with the premium we place on personal relationships, we've built a network of 29 offices across the UK, Jersey and Dublin, staffed by qualified investment managers and financial planners. We are committed to the most exacting standards of client service, with long-term thinking and absolute focus on our clients' needs at the core.

*as of 30 September 2017

2016 was the fifth consecutive year that Brewin Dolphin sponsored a show garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. In 2017 they embarked on a new venture supporting the Royal Horticultural Society at its first ever Flower Show to be held at Chatsworth House.

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About Paul Hervey-Brookes
Paul Hervey-Brookes is a multi-award-winning garden designer renowned for creating classically English landscapes and gardens with rich, multi-layered habitats. His plant-focused philosophy is rooted in his early training at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and subsequent garden experiences in the UK and abroad.
Paul's ability to read landscapes and evoke intense feelings and emotions has won him acclaim across the board. He works on a diverse range of public landscapes and private gardens both in the UK and Internationally.

He has created show gardens for over 10 years most recently winning Gold, Best in Show and Best Construction for the IQ Garden at RHS Chatsworth in 2017. He has also won two gold, one silver-gilt and one silver medal at RHS Chelsea as well as three gold medals at RHS Hampton Court Palace.

Paul has also created show gardens on the International stage, most recently winning Gold at Philadelphia and the 'Best Colour' award at the new Japan Home & Garden Show. In 2014 he won Best in Show, Gold and Best planting at Gardening World Cup Japan. He has exhibited at the Ellerslie Flower Show in New Zealand and at the inaugural Lyon Salon, Scenes du Jardin in France.

Paul was awarded a Fellowship of the Institute of Quarrying in 2017 in recognition of his work to bring wider knowledge of the industry to the general public. He is the only person outside of the quarrying industry to receive this honour.