{"id":11136,"date":"2019-10-12T19:44:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T18:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=11136"},"modified":"2021-10-16T19:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T18:22:45","slug":"the-belief-style-an-emerging-style-at-the-2019-chelsea-flower-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/the-belief-style-an-emerging-style-at-the-2019-chelsea-flower-show\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Chelsea Flower Show Garden Designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11140\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BELIEF_style_garden_design_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11140\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BELIEF_style_garden_design_-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BELIEF_style_garden_design_-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BELIEF_style_garden_design_-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BELIEF_style_garden_design_-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BELIEF_style_garden_design_-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BELIEF_style_garden_design_-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BELIEF_style_garden_design_.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Belief Style of garden design was prominent at the 2019 Chelsea Flower Show. This example, The Savills and David Harber Garden, was designed by Andrew Duff<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While admiring the 2019 Chelsea Flower Show, I thought of a name for an emerging style of garden design. The primary characteristic of\u00a0 the <strong>Belief Style<\/strong> is a new view of Nature: as simultaneously endangered, life-enhancing and in need of conservation by and for humanity. Perhaps it will earn a place on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/history_theory\/garden_landscape_design_articles\/historic_design_styles\">Gardenvisit chart of Historic Styles of Garden Design<\/a>.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DwWzzPYEItU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Though I have used \u2018belief\u2019 in the titles of books about garden history, I have not used it to characterise a specific design approach. My reason for doing so now is to clarify and enhance an important trend in both garden design and landscape architecture. Without accurate terminology, the development of concepts is hindered.<br \/>\nThe dominant design trends of the twentieth century were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/modernism-and-postmodernism-at-the-2019-chelsea-flower-show\">Modernist and Postmodernist<\/a>. Both influenced gardens. But both advance on the path to obsolescence every time the clock ticks. With an inward smile, I used the term post-Postmodern in the sub-title of a book on design theory: <em>City as landscape: a post-Postmodern view of design and planning<\/em>. It\u2019s cumbersome and when I checked the order of \u2018design\u2019 and \u2018planning\u2019 this morning I noticed that Amazon had contracted it to post-Modern. \u2018Belief\u2019 may also be a substitute for \u2018post-Postmodern\u2019 in other contexts. Time will tell.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11167\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/city_as_landscape_22.5_amazon_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11167\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/city_as_landscape_22.5_amazon_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/city_as_landscape_22.5_amazon_.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/city_as_landscape_22.5_amazon_-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/city_as_landscape_22.5_amazon_-768x440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/city_as_landscape_22.5_amazon_-624x357.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The subtitle should be &#8216;a post_Postmodern view of design and planning<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With regard to art and design, the names I prefer to Modern and Postmodern are Abstract and Post-Abstract. They tell us \u2018what\u2019s in the box\u2019 rather than \u2018when the box was opened\u2019.<br \/>\nThe word \u2018belief\u2019 does not mean the same as either \u2018religion\u2019 or \u2018faith\u2019. Not everybody has a religion. But we all have beliefs in the sense of things we hold to be true that cannot be established by rational empirical science. Even such determined anti-theists as Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkin and Stephen Fry have beliefs. I assume, for example, they have beliefs in the wickedness of cruelty and the virtues of kindness. Both could could influence garden design.<br \/>\nIn these agnostic times the belief that is most foregrounded (to use a term favoured by postmodernists) is in the overwhelming importance of nature. This is not new. But it is now being linked with beliefs about conservation, sustainability, climate change, biodiversity, physical health and mental health.<br \/>\nThe garden awarded the 2019 RHS Chelsea Best in Show Medal is a good example, designed by Andy Sturgeon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11166\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/P5200128.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11166\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11166\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/P5200128.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/P5200128.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/P5200128-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/P5200128-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/P5200128-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The M&amp;G Garden, designed by Andy Sturgeon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We also see a love of nature in the work of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/biography\/william_robinson\">William Robinson<\/a>\u00a0 (mentioned by Sarah Eberle). But though he talked about a wild garden he is not in fact believed to have made a dominant use of wild plants in his own garden. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/biography\/alfred_parsons\">Alfred Parson<\/a>&#8216;s illustrations to his books are another matter and have a real commonality with some of the planting design at Chelsea.most important these planting designs are favoured both by the RHS and by the Chelsea judges.<br \/>\nWhat designers say about their work is almost as significant as what they do. Here are some examples, not coordinated with the video clips.<br \/>\nAndy Sturgeon, who won the Best in Show award for the M&amp;G garden, uses \u2018a biodiverse range of pioneering plant species from around the world\u2019 to demonstrate \u2018nature\u2019s power to regenerate\u2019.<br \/>\nThe RHS \u2018Back to Nature Garden-, designed by the Duchess of Cambridge with landscape architects Davies White, is conceived \u2018as a place to retreat from the world\u2019 while promoting \u2018physical and emotional wellbeing\u2019.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11164\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/P5200153.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11164\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11164\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/P5200153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/P5200153.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/P5200153-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/P5200153-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/P5200153-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The RHS Back to Nature Garden, by HRH the Duchess of Cornwall with Andree Davies and Adam White<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Andrew Duff, explaining his design for \u2018The Savills and David Harber Garden\u2019, states that \u2018The most important aspect of this garden is its underlying sustainability\u2019.<br \/>\nSarah Eberle, in a design for the Forestry Commission, explores how gardens and landscapes \u2018can be made resilient to the threats posed by a changing climate, pests and diseases\u2019.<br \/>\nBeliefs always have been a fundamental aspect of garden design so I\u2019m happy that new beliefs are leading to a new design style &#8211; which I hope you can appreciate from the video clips we\u2019ve been looking at. They focus on planting design and are not classified by designer, but the potential scope of the style is much wider &#8211; and merits another blog post.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11165\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BELIEF_style_IMG_20190523_112653.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11165\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11165\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BELIEF_style_IMG_20190523_112653.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BELIEF_style_IMG_20190523_112653.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BELIEF_style_IMG_20190523_112653-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BELIEF_style_IMG_20190523_112653-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BELIEF_style_IMG_20190523_112653-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Belief Style of garden design is related to William Robinson&#8217;s Wild Garden but also strikes off in a new direction<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While admiring the 2019 Chelsea Flower Show, I thought of a name for an emerging style of garden design. 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