Simply Italian

This year Simply Italian has been invited to join the Royal Chelsea Flower Show with a 120 sq.m stone Italian garden designed by multi award winning garden architect and sculptor Paul Cooper.

'Ocean to a Garden', sponsored by leading Italian stone company Testi Fratelli, will be the largest aquatic display ever to have been at the Show and promises to be like nothing you have ever seen before.
The Garden, which is reminiscent of ancient Roman temples or forums, will be laid out as an enclosed outdoor space with granite floors, walls and colonnades against a backdrop of a natural Tuscan landscape. The colonnades serve as planters for roses and lavender whilst the vertical surfaces are infused with water running over smooth, ribbed or textured granite surfaces. The undulating floor invites you to walk into this watery world inbetween the colonnades, stepping through the raised dry areas.
The Garden is cladded with stone, which could have been the floor of the oceans billions of years ago, brought to the surface through eruptions to form mountains and rocks, now made into an unconventional architectural garden.
Our main sponsors for the event, Testi Fratelli, will be supplying granite which uses the most advanced 3D stone shaping technology in the world to create a truly unique look.
This will be the ultimate in architectural garden design combining tradition and innovation, taking it to an aesthetical level that satisfies even the strongest desire for uniqueness.

Please read the press release listed as an attachment at the bottom of this page.

For further information on the garden and marketing opportunities, please contact Birte on +44 (0) 1252 326 416

Our collaborators/associates for this project:

Paul Cooper - www.paulcooperdesign.co.uk
Designer

Testi Fratelli - www.testigroup.com
Sponsors and stone supplier

H2O plc - www.h2oplc.com
Hydrology specialist and supplier/sponsor

Bisol - www. bisol.it
Sponsors. Bisol are a producer of the finest prosecco of Valdobbiadene since 1542.


RHS official show website: http://www.rhs.org.uk/chelsea/2008/highlights-shows.asp