Young design potential backed by Mobilane Green Screens | RHS Young Designer Award 2018

Perhaps with the fiercest competition to date, the RHS have announced their shortlist of finalists in this year’s 10^th anniversary RHS Young Designer Competition. Open to those aged 28 and under, the winner will be announced at RHS Flower Show Tatton Park, celebrating its’ own 20^th anniversary next year.

One of the finalists is Eds Higgins of Hosta Consulting. Eds, Lead Designer at the Nottingham-based architect’s practice, devised his garden design entitled “Finding (Urban) Nature” as his own interpretation of the competition’s theme of “health and well-being”. Put another way, Eds’s garden is F[u]N, heralding urban wasteland sites as hidden gems of the landscape, with great importance for wildlife and open space to help improve mental health and well-being – as well as vital community centres – who didn’t build a den in places like this when they were younger?!

Using reclaimed materials and with an ingenious scaffold pavilion as its centrepiece, Eds’s garden will be flanked by a number of 1.8 metre euonymus planted and hand-woven Mobilane Green Screens, adding structure and background and continuing the health and well-being theme as “pollutant barriers” improving air quality in urban landscapes. (See also: Green My School campaign)

You can visit Eds’s garden, the Flower Show and await the winner’s announcement at RHS Tatton Park which takes place 18-22 July 2018. Tickets available here.

You can find out more about Eds Higgins and Hosta Consulting on their website.

GOOD LUCK EDS!