Top garden designer picks our stock for RHS Malvern Spring Festival

Award-winning garden designer Peter Dowle has chosen plants from us to feature in his show garden at RHS Malvern Spring Festival next week – including our new innovative Hedera Algerian Bellecour® (May 11-14, 2023).

More than 1000 plants

Ian Wright, our Commercial Sales Director, explains: “We’re very excited that Peter has chosen to include a selection of our plants, more than 1,000 in total, in his show garden at Malvern. The garden sounds absolutely amazing. We understand it will include a 25-metre dome, lush greenery and the sound of cascading waterfalls.

“Included in the plants we’ve sent are several varieties of agapanthus and hostas, as well as ferns and grasses. There’s also Euonymus japonicus ‘Paloma Blanca’, Phormium ‘Platt’s Black’, Pittosporum tenuifolium ‘Tom Thumb’ and Astelia ‘Silver Shadow’, to name but a few.

Hedera Algerian Bellecour®

“We’re delighted that our new ground cover ivy will showcase in the garden too. Hedera Algerian Bellecour® is exclusive to us and is really unique, as it doesn’t climb, so is a great low maintenance groundcover. It’s particularly useful to amenity and commercial landscape contractors and architects, as it remains in a juvenile form, so requires little to no care and is perfect for hard-to-reach areas. It can easily cover large areas in a carpet of foliage that’s evergreen.”

All about Peter

Under Peter’s leadership, Leaf Creative Gardens’ team has won numerous awards for its gardens – both for design and construction – including gold medals at RHS Chelsea, Hampton Court and Malvern, with several named Best in Show.  

Peter and the Leaf Creative Gardens team have worked with many top designers such as Chris Beardshaw, Sarah Eberle and James Basson and Peter has featured in numerous magazine articles and appeared on BBC Gardeners’ World.  

Howle Hill Nursery has opened Leaf Creative, a new plant centre in Huntley, Gloucestershire, which was created by Peter, to allow ‘gardening and landscaping expertise combine to create a funky, aspirational garden destination’.

Working with us

Peter says: “It’s great to work with Wyevale Nurseries on this project and play with some of their exciting new introductions. I’m particularly excited about the Bellecour® ivy, which will feature as a bright, fresh splash of foliage in the ‘Jungle’ environment. I think it will become a Leaf Creative plant staple for the future!”