Monday 9 January
Holy Cow
Dalmatian or Friesian?
I remember last time I made a garden at Chelsea in 2010 I just couldn’t wait to get started on site. The whole process has a kind of hypothetical air about it until a digger arrives on site and someone digs a hole. Until then its hard to believe it’s ever going to happen. To make us all feel better we printed out some full size images of one of our main feature walls and taped them to the wall in our studio. I know it looks like a new idea for a game but actually it’s a stone clad wall inspired by William Morris and John Ruskin wallpaper. People who see it are evenly split between those that are reminded of a Dalmatian and those that say Friesian. I am in the bovine camp. My son just sat there endlessly repeating that he thought it was all a ’bad idea’. I sent him home. We will now spend the next three months staring at it every day and wondering if we have the holes in the right place. These things must not be rushed. And by the way, it won’t actually be black and white so keep the Cruella De Vil comments to yourself.
Andy Sturgeon
M&G Garden 2012 designer
