19 February 2020
A sketch of ‘The Brewin Dolphin Garden – Inspired by Wren’
Brewin Dolphin, a financial planning and investment management company, will mark its first foray at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival this year by channelling English architect Sir Christopher Wren with its show garden.
Drawing on the signature style of the renowned architect, ‘The Brewin Dolphin Garden – Inspired by Wren’ will bring to life a contemporary vision of Wren’s design style, and will incorporate his famed use of curves, arches and rectangles to denote form, space and minimalist shape. Wren is noted for designing some of the most iconic buildings in England, including the grand Fountain Court baroque palace, which is situated on the grounds of Hampton Court.
The garden, which will be created by award-winning designer Paul Hervey-Brookes, will be notable for its large-scale, measuring some 22x28m and will take inspiration from Wren’s use of columns, with five large columns, at 2.4m each, as the central feature. Built over three levels, the garden will also have a 4.5m contemporary pavilion, which will look out over a series of spaces, including a 15-meter long sunken floral rill. The well-known screen printer Hannah McVicar will join Hervey-Brookes and Brewin Dolphin once again to create bespoke 1x2m panel prints, inspired by Wren and elements of the garden, which will adorn one of the pavilion’s walls.
The garden will comprise some 3,500 individual plants, and will see naturalised planting, woodland planting, a floral rill and open, long grass prairies all united under a series of columns, which punctuate the garden, leading the eyes upward to three large, multi-stem English native trees.
The decision by Hervey-Brookes to channel Wren denotes Brewin Dolphin’s connection to some of the architect’s famous landmarks, including its presence at Wren House for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, its show garden at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival and, in 2022, the company is scheduled to move into its new London headquarters overlooking St Paul’s Cathedral.
Paul Hervey-Brookes said: “This garden will speak to the individual on many levels and is intended to both entertain and reflect upon. I have always been fascinated by Christopher Wren’s minimalist approach to design, whereby simple shapes were transformed into amazing buildings. I wanted to recreate this, with particular emphasis on the significance of columns in Wren’s buildings to represent physical strength but also, on a metaphorical level, to denote support.”
Rupert Tyler of Brewin Dolphin said: “The use of columns as a central feature of the garden aligns with how the company’s long heritage and experience in investments helps generations of families to make informed, stable financial decisions, which in turn help to build strong structures for the future.”
Paul will collaborate with Brewin Dolphin for a third time after creating gardens for the company at the RHS Chatsworth Flower Show in 2018 and 2019, where his 2018 Brewin Dolphin Garden Installation won the popular People’s Choice award at the show.
The garden will be put to good use after the show and will be completely recycled. One half will be sold at a charity event in the town of Tetbury in the Cotswolds and the other half will be repurposed at a hospice.
Brewin Dolphin has had a long association with the RHS since 2012, and in that time has created award-winning gardens with renowned garden designers at both the Chelsea Flower Show and the Chatsworth Flower Show.
The RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival is billed as the world’s largest flower show and will see an array of show gardens, floral marquees and pavilions, and will feature talks and interactive demonstrations. The show will take place from 7-12 July 2020. For more information visit: www.rhs.org.uk
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PRESS INFORMATION
For further information, please contact:
Richard Janes: richard.janes@brewin.co.uk / Tel: +44 (0) 20 3201 3343
Anita Turland: anita.turland@brewin.co.uk / Tel: (0) 20 3201 4263
Payal Nair: payal.nair@brewin.co.uk / Tel:+44 (0) 20 3201 3342
Camarco: brewin@camarco.co.uk / Tel: +44 (0)20 3757 4980
NOTES TO EDITORS
Disclaimers:
The value of investments can fall and you may get back less than you invested
Brewin Dolphin is authorised and regulated by the FCA
About Brewin Dolphin
Brewin Dolphin is a UK FTSE 250 provider of discretionary wealth management. With £48.5* billion in total funds, it offers award-winning personalised wealth management services that meet the varied needs of our clients including individuals, charities and corporates.
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 £41.8* billion on a discretionary basis.
Our intermediary business manages £14.3* billion of assets for over 1,700 advice firms either on a discretionary basis or via our Managed Portfolio Service.
In line with the premium we place on personal relationships, we’ve built a network of 33 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 at 31st December 2019
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.
He has created show gardens for over 10 years, most recently winning Gold at RHS Chelsea in 2019 and 2018 and also winning Gold, Best in Show and Best Construction for the IQ Garden at RHS Chatsworth in 2017, which was one of the largest gardens ever to be built at a show, at over 480 square meters. He 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.
Paul regularly exhibits and is involved with international flower shows, including the Moscow Flower Show and Jardins Jardin, in Paris